Senior Principal Engineering Leader, Legacy Transformation

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Job Title

What does a successful Senior Principal Engineering Leader Legacy Transformation do

As a Senior Principal Engineering Leader focused on Legacy Transformation you will define and advance the target engineering platform for a regulated fintech environment operating at bank-grade reliability. You will work across platform engineering application engineering architecture security and operations teams to modernize legacy services into cloud-native platforms. Your work will reduce operational risk improve delivery consistency and support secure resilient experiences for clients and consumers.

What youll do:

• Define and deliver target platform architecture for application programming interface (API) gateways service mesh developer platforms shared runtime services identity authorization observability and internal engineering standards

• Lead decomposition of monolithic and legacy platforms into bounded microservices with clear ownership models defined data contracts and controlled migration approaches

• Design and govern zero-downtime migration patterns for critical payment account customer and transaction services where service disruption creates client regulatory or settlement risk

• Establish technical standards for Java and Go services Kubernetes Envoy Istio Terraform continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) secrets management resilience testing and production readiness reviews

• Manage and develop senior engineering talent including Staff and Senior engineers through technical coaching design reviews and performance guidance

• Lead technical direction across transformation programs align engineering priorities across teams and drive consistent execution against architecture reliability and operational objectives

• Raise the engineering bar through review of consequential designs operational controls reliability practices and measurable platform adoption outcomes

• Responsibilities listed are not intended to be all-inclusive and may be modified as necessary.

What you will need to have:

• 13 years of experience in software engineering platform engineering or architecture roles building and operating large-scale financial technology payments banking wallet ledger commerce or similar regulated platforms

• 5 years of experience defining architecture and leading modernization programs for platforms serving millions of customers or hundreds of millions of transactions

• 5 years of experience managing and developing teams

• 10 years of experience designing and delivering distributed systems using Java Go Kubernetes cloud infrastructure API gateways service mesh observability tooling and infrastructure as code

• 8 years of experience designing reliable financial systems with controls for authorization capture settlement ledger consistency reconciliation auditability idempotency duplicate prevention and financial-grade error handling

• 5 years of experience implementing engineering controls aligned to PCI Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) Service Organization Control (SOC) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) data residency encryption audit logging and structured change management practices

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Technology or a related field or equivalent combination of education related experience and/or military experience

• Experience leading modernization in a tier-one fintech payments commerce banking technology or cloud platform environment

What would be great to have:

• Experience with bounded context design saga-based workflow patterns and migration controls for high-risk transactional services

• Experience building shared internal developer platforms and engineering standards adopted across multiple product or platform teams

• Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent combination of education related experience and/or military experience

Travel

This role requires occasional travel to other locations in the country

Thank you for considering employment with Fiserv. Please:

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• Complete the step-by-step profile and attach your resume (either is acceptable both are preferable).

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