Distinguished Principal Engineering Leader

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Job Title

About your role:

As a Distinguished Principal Engineering Leader you will serve as a top-level technical authority shaping the architecture engineering standards product engineering delivery and long-term platform strategy for enterprise-scale payment and financial technology systems. You will work across engineering product infrastructure security and executive leadership teams to solve complex platform challenges drive modernization across multiple domains and accelerate the responsible adoption of AI capabilities across the engineering organization. Your work will enable resilient high-volume systems and establish reusable patterns that improve scale reliability developer productivity and innovation across the enterprise.

What youll do:

• Define and drive enterprise-level technical strategy for large-scale distributed platforms that support critical business capabilities and high-volume transaction processing.
• Lead architecture and product engineering delivery for complex multi-domain platform initiatives including modernization decomposition and cloud-native transformation across legacy and emerging systems.
• Establish scale and deliver technical standards reference architectures and engineering guardrails adopted across multiple teams platforms and business areas.
• Solve ambiguous high-impact architecture challenges involving scale performance resiliency availability and operability in enterprise production environments.
• Guide the design of event-driven microservices-based and multi-region systems that improve fault tolerance recovery and long-term platform adaptability.
• Define and promote engineering patterns for the responsible use of AI including AI-assisted development intelligent automation and platform capabilities that improve engineering effectiveness and system operations.
• Partner with engineering and enterprise stakeholders to evaluate integrate and scale AI-enabled tools workflows or platform services in alignment with security governance privacy and operational requirements.
• Mentor principal engineers and other senior technical leaders by raising engineering quality design rigor AI fluency and technical decision-making standards across the organization.
• Responsibilities listed are not intended to be all-inclusive and may be modified as necessary.

Experience youll need to have:

• 15 years of experience designing building and operating large-scale distributed systems in enterprise or hyperscale technology environments.
• 15 years of experience leading architecture for modernizing complex platform ecosystems using event-driven architecture microservices decomposition distributed data patterns and service-based integration.
• 12 years of experience defining technical strategy technical delivery and architecture standards across multiple teams products or enterprise domains.
• 12 years of experience designing highly available systems for high-volume transaction processing including multi-region resilience performance optimization fault tolerance and disaster recovery.
• 5 years of experience evaluating integrating or scaling AI or machine learning (ML) capabilities within engineering platforms software delivery workflows automation frameworks or production systems.
• Experience driving cloud-native architecture and modernization using Amazon Web Services (AWS) Microsoft Azure Kubernetes and related container orchestration or infrastructure platforms.
• Experience establishing measurable engineering practices for AI-assisted development intelligent automation or data-driven operational improvement.
• Bachelors degree or higher in computer science computer engineering information systems or a related field or equivalent combination of education related experience and/or military experience.

Experience that would be great to have:

• Experience influencing technical direction at a tier-1 technology company or similarly scaled engineering organization.
• Experience in financial services payments or other regulated environments with demanding availability security and transaction integrity requirements.
• Experience establishing reusable architecture patterns platform standards and modernization frameworks adopted across an enterprise.
• Experience with generative AI large language model (LLM) enabled engineering tools or machine learning operations (MLOps) practices in enterprise environments.

How youll work:

• This role is on-site Monday through Friday. Fiserv considers in-person collaboration to be an essential part of this role as in-person office experiences help you with your overall onboarding experience and leads to stronger productivity.
• This role requires use of a computer and audio equipment.

Travel:This role requires occasional travel (up to 10%).

Salary Range

These pay ranges apply to employees in New Jersey and New York. Pay ranges for employees in other states may differ.

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