Senior Engineering Lead - Payments Platform (SVP)
Core
Architect resilient, AI-powered microservices for mission-critical payment transaction processing at scale.
Role type
Senior Engineering Lead / Technical Architect
Builds
Payments infrastructure, self-healing microservices, event-driven AI pipelines
Domain
Financial Services / Payments Technology
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Microservices architecture, AI/ML integration, Event-driven design, System design, Risk management, Compliance, Team leadership, Stakeholder management, Technical strategy, Budget management
Preferred skills
Knowledge of ISO 20022, Card network rules, Real-time payment schemes, Apache Kafka, Circuit breaker patterns, Active-active replication
Technologies
Apache Kafka, AI/ML frameworks, Microservices frameworks
Responsibilities
Lead integration of functions to deploy new payments products and enhance workflows; Analyze complex business and system processes to define high-level solutions; Develop application methodologies and standards for coding, testing, and implementation; Consult with stakeholders to identify system specifications; Allocate work and mentor developers; Influence senior leaders and negotiate with external parties; Assess risk and drive compliance with laws and regulations; Design fault-tolerant microservices ensuring 99.99% availability; Integrate AI/ML models for predictive scaling and anomaly detection; Develop high-throughput event-driven architectures.
