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As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other.

Job Description

Within Gateway Services we are building our next generation omni-commerce Gateway. We are currently hiring a VP level Engineering Leader to lead our teams within this domain. In this role you will lead highly technical and strategic engineering initiatives on mission-critical platforms across our team, enabling every engineer to their best work.

Your role will be tasked with solving the most complex, challenging technical problems across this team to meet our demanding needs.

You will play an influential role in partnership with engineering leadership group and other cross-divisional VPs of Engineering owning strategy, technical vision and direction for your teams.

In order to excel in this role you will possess:

• Come from an Engineering background, you will have grown your career into engineering leadership, having experience of Managing Managers
• You will have demonstrable experience in driving results through OKRs and Metrics and be able to talk to the impact you have driven.
• You will have managed teams of 50+ and budgets of $5m+
• Possess great instincts and ability to make good judgement calls and execute on those quickly.
• Possess great communication skills (written and verbal)
• Ability to influence across teams and with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to drive vision and strategy for our overall architecture to support scale, performance, resiliency and reliability of our platform.
• Come from a technical background, extremely proficient in microservices architectures, architecture patterns, having created architectures that allow services to be shipped to production multiple times a day as independently releasable microservices.
• Be able to quickly identify problems with our current state solutions and come to solutions quickly to enable critical delivery to move.
• An evangelist who can always keep an eye on the future, and in doing so help keep our teams up to speed on the latest and greatest happenings within technology.
• Strong appreciation of Event Storming and DDD having applied these mythologies in shaping microservices architectures.
• Experience in creating / engineering Cloud Native Architectures.
• Additional Experience (nice to have).
• Some experience with Model Context Protocol / AI having had some experience in how this can shape the future of software engineering.
• Experience in Java within low latency environments.
• Experience of chaos engineering and patterns that ensure high uptime and resiliency.

Education:

• Degree in Computer Science or Similar Technical Discipline.
• 15+ years experience having come from a software engineering background.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits:

We offer an exciting, fast-paced and diverse working environment with employees of many different nationalities. We provide benefits to help you protect your health and financial security; and give you peace of mind. We also invest in your career growth with development resources that give you the opportunity to stretch and shine.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.