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Senior Principal Payment Tech Development Manager

Riverwoods, IL💼 Full-time💰 $161,500–$161,500🗓 2026-07-09 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead end-to-end design, development, testing, and delivery of contact/contactless chip technologies, mobile payments, and emerging payment devices, including D-PAS card personalization and Mobile D-PAS Wallet validations.

Role type

Senior Principal Payment Tech Development Manager (Engineering Leader)

Builds

Next-generation payment technologies across card acceptance and payment devices (contact/contactless chips, mobile, cloud-based payments)

Domain

Fintech / Payment Systems / Secure Elements

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Payment technology R&D, People management, Strategic vendor relationships, Cross-functional stakeholder management, Risk mitigation, Engineering culture building, Resource allocation, Compliance program design, Industry standards leadership

Preferred skills

EMV Functional and Security requirements, Large-scale deployment projects, Scaling engineering teams, Cloud-based payments, Mobile payment technologies

Technologies

EMV, Secure Elements, Cloud-based payments, Mobile payment technologies

Responsibilities

Recruit and build high-performing engineering and validation organizations; Define architectural specifications for payment technologies; Manage relationships with card manufacturers, test labs, and mobile developers; Establish testing requirements and validation governance; Represent the organization in global standardization organizations; Mitigate systemic risks and technical bottlenecks.

Seniority

Senior Principal, hands-on IC & people leader

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