Director of Software Engineering - Java & AWS

y for coding decisions, control obligations, and measures of success such as cost of ownership, maintainability, and portfolio operations

• Own end-to-end delivery of large-scale credit card platform initiatives, managing scope, risk, and dependencies across multiple workstreams

• Provide architectural direction for platform engineering, designing highly available, fault-tolerant systems capable of processing transactions at scale with minimal latency

• Champion the adoption of AI-driven development practices, including AI-assisted code generation, automated testing, and predictive defect analysis

• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions, demonstrating understanding of the credit card lifecycle

• Partner with risk, compliance, and information security teams to embed controls into the software development lifecycle

• Evaluate and integrate Huge data processing, data streaming, real-time analytics, and event-sourcing patterns to enable new payments products and features

• Collaborate with enterprise architecture and platform engineering teams to ensure alignment with technology standards and cloud strategy

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise

• Proven experience architecting and delivering large-scale, high-availability distributed systems processing high-volume, low-latency workloads

• Hands-on expertise with modern enterprise technology stacks, including Java/Kotlin, reactive and asynchronous frameworks, event-promoten architectures, containerized environments, and infrastructure-as-code tools

• Ability to promote complex, multi-workstream delivery programs from technical strategy through production release

• Experience embedding security, compliance, and regulatory controls into engineering workflows and CI/CD pipelines

• Track record of building, mentoring, and scaling engineering teams across multiple experience levels

• Ability to operate effectively at the intersection of technology and business, including presenting technical strategy and trade-offs to senior stakeholders

• Experience in the banking or financial services domain, with Digital Wallet or payments industry experience

• Extensive experience with AWS services, including architecture, deployment, and optimization of cloud-based solutions.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Proficiency with architectural modeling languages such as UML or the C4 model, and familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks
• Hands-on experience with event-driven architecture patterns, including technologies such as Kafka, event sourcing, and CQRS
• Exposure to AI/ML tooling, large language model integration, or AI-assisted software development practices
• Demonstrated expertise in building 0-to-1 applications, taking products from concept to launch.
• Skilled in processing and managing large volumes of data for settlement and reconciliation workflows, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.