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Head of European Core Processing

WARSAW, , POLAND💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-18 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead and manage a technology organization of ~250 software professionals across Warsaw and Prague, defining strategy for large-scale European core payment processing platforms and owning a multi-year migration program from legacy systems.

Role type

Senior leadership (Head of European Core Processing)

Builds

Large-scale, high-availability, low-latency payment processing platforms and components

Domain

Payments / Financial Services

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Technology change management, scaling large engineering teams across multiple locations, leading large-scale high-availability low-latency platforms, leading live real-time platform migrations, translating business vision into software components, building engineering culture

Preferred skills

Payments industry knowledge, cloud technologies, lean/agile practices, engaging with senior stakeholders and boards, championing modern engineering practices (CI/CD, test automation, TDD, BDD)

Technologies

Cloud technologies, CI/CD, test automation, TDD, BDD

Responsibilities

Lead and manage a technology organization of ~250 software professionals, Define the technology strategy for European core payment processing platforms, Partner with Product to build a stable and predictable roadmap, Own a multi-year migration programme to move business-critical traffic from legacy systems, Act as the Senior Technology Partner and single point of contact for core payment processing in Europe

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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