Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
• Experience supporting debit, payments, or other high-volume transaction platforms in regulated environments
• Familiarity with PCI DSS-aligned controls and partnering with audit, risk, and compliance teams on evidence and remediation
• Experience with Camunda and BPMN-based workflow orchestration
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (such as Terraform) and GitOps delivery models
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, and/or Dynatrace in large distributed systems
• Familiarity with ISO 8583 and/or ISO 20022 integrations, reconciliation patterns, or settlement workflows
Job responsibilities
• Define and evolve target-state architecture for debit and payments services using modern distributed-systems patterns
• Lead domain-level technical ownership across multiple services, ensuring high availability, low latency, and operational excellence
• Drive modernization initiatives, including platform upgrades and decomposition efforts, with clear risk management and rollback plans
• Establish and enforce API governance, schema/versioning practices, and engineering standards through design reviews and reference implementations
• Improve reliability through service level indicators/service level objectives, runbooks, post-incident learning, and capacity planning
• Build and mature observability practices, including distributed tracing and metrics that cover synchronous and asynchronous workflows
• Partner with security, risk, and compliance stakeholders to ensure secure engineering practices and audit-ready controls
• Standardize event streaming and messaging practices, including idempotency, retry strategies, and dead-letter queue handling
• Mentor and coach senior and lead engineers, strengthening engineering practices across squads
• Communicate technical strategy, tradeoffs, and delivery plans to senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners
Must have skills
java
experience with debit cards payments; banking industry
experience with automation, AI
SQL
kafka
kubernetes
cloud
inquisitive, looking for solutions
good communicator