Director, Software Development

Global Payment Holding Company

Job Location:

Alpharetta, GA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 160000 - 170000

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Every day Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit debit prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies more than 1300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.

Summary of This Role

The Director of Software Engineering will leverage their background and expertise in software engineering and agile methodologies to drive the planning and delivery of our large scale and globally distributed products. The incumbent of this role will have a strong engineering background business acumen be a champion of transformation mentor the teams on building world class software and help drive automation ensure resiliency and quality of all our products.

For this role you will be responsible for multiple managers leading Java engineering teams leveraging modern development practices to deliver Global Payment next generation gift and loyalty platforms.

What Part Will You Play

Leads and mentors high-performing software engineering teams to design develop and operate highly available scalable software products.
Provides technical direction and mentorship fostering a culture of engineering excellence innovation and continuous improvement.
Builds and scales engineering teams through strategic hiring onboarding and talent development.
Drives resolution of complex technical roadblocks acting as a senior escalation point and providing expertise to unblock development.
Orchestrates the end-to-end delivery of product roadmaps ensuring on-time on-budget and high-quality results.
Partners with Product Leadership to align technical strategy with business goals delivering value through Agile methodologies and high automation.
Establishes and enforces engineering best practices (CI/CD TDD code reviews) throughout the SDLC to improve velocity and code quality.
Ensures rigorous compliance with security data protection privacy and regulatory requirements (e.g. GDPR ISO).
Defines and tracks SMART goals and key KPIs (e.g. deployment frequency MTTR team velocity) to ensure operational success.
Manages departmental budgets forecasting and resource allocation collaborating with Finance and Leadership.
Acts as a senior stakeholder partner and ambassador managing relationships with clients and vendors to ensure project alignment.
Collaborates cross-functionally to improve workflows negotiating with business units to optimize delivery.

What Are We Looking For in This Role

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field from an accredited university is required; however relevant experience in lieu of a degree may be considered
Minimum of 12 years of related professional experience with a minimum of 5 years experience in a hands on software development role and a minimum of 7 years of leading a geographically distributed software engineering team of at least 20
Must have at least 5 years previous experience as a developer with the following technologies: Java Javascript C# C C Groovy Python Bash Angular SQL Oracle MYSQL and Informix
Experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies and SDLC
Experience with Transaction Process Threading and Debugging
Experience with tools such as Jira Github Intelli-J Microsoft Visual Studio
Experience with DevOps CICD and related automation to help improve productivity
Experience with Test and Quality excellence especially via Automation
Experience with Cloud: GCP and AWS

Preferred Qualifications

Masters Degree
Prior experience with Gift and Loyalty systems
Prior Global Payments payment or technology industry experience is preferred.

What Are Our Desired Skills and Capabilities

Hands on Technologist with experience in leading software development teams delivery highly available software product at scale
Program and Project management skills
Communication and stakeholder management experience
Curiosity and a problem solving mindset
Ability to navigate in a matrix environment
Ability to influence to drive results

The above represents the expected $160000 - 170000 range for this job requisition . Ultimately in determining your pay well consider your location experience and other job related factors.

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Director