What does a successful Senior Director of Software Engineering do at Fiserv?
You'll be a key leader of success of our Core Acquiring Authorization engineering group within the Fiserv Merchant Solutions (Payment Acceptance) business. We process over 350 million payment transactions per day with a peak throughput of over 8,000 transactions per second while maintaining millisecond-fast response time; all of this is done for some of the largest merchants in the U.S. In this fast-paced online transaction processing environment, you'll be a passionate critical problem-solver who can balance platform stability and resiliency along with modern engineering practices and solutions.
What you will do:
- Lead, manage, mentor, and inspire multiple teams of software engineers
- Set clear performance expectations and KPIs, conduct performance reviews, and support career development for all the team members
- Drive modernization and migration of several real-time applications to AWS that are low-latency, high-volume APIs that run 24x7 supporting critical business processes
- Reengineer on-premises applications to highly resilient, highly available, low-latency applications running on AWS
- Develop and document high-quality code to solve strategically important problems
- Provide high-quality code and design review feedback to other engineers while defining and leading the adoption of standards and best practices
What you will need to have:
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering or similar roles
- 10+ years of experience in one or more general-purpose programming language such as C or Java
- 5+ years of hands-on leadership experience with Payments Processing at large scale
- 5+ years in a leadership role with a focus on continuous improvement initiatives and setting priorities and plans to meet business goals and objectives
- 5+ years of practical cloud-native experience, including AWS
- 5+ years of experience with distributed systems and microservices architectures
- 2+ years of experience leading cloud transformation in a payments or financial services environment
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, military, and work experience
What would be great to have:
- Knowledge of international payment systems and cross-border transactions
- Experience with cloud-based payment solutions and infrastructure
- Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration tools
- Familiarity with emerging technologies such as blockchain, AI, and machine learning
- Experience in CI/CD pipeline and related open-source tools like Jenkins, GitLab, and SonarQube
Important info about this role:
- We’re better together! This role is fully on-site.
- This is a full-time, direct-hire position, and no contract options or unsolicited agency submissions will be considered
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