Engineering Director Credit Cards

Job Description

This role requires deep technology leadership across large-scale engineering organizations, with strong expertise in credit cards technology, modern architecture, cloud platforms, engineering excellence, and resilient delivery in regulated enterprise environments. This role will require managing multi-journey feature teams with an overall team size of 150 to 200.

Core Technology Leadership

• Extensive experience leading large-scale engineering organizations delivering enterprise-grade platforms and customer journeys.
• Strong experience operating in complex distributed systems and highly regulated environments.
• Proven experience leading engineering modernization and transformation initiatives and leading large teams working in scaled agile.

Credit Card & Payments Domain Experience

• Strong experience in one or more areas:

• Credit card issuing platforms
• Card lifecycle management
• Authorization and transaction processing
• Billing and statements
• Disputes and chargebacks
• Fraud and risk integration
• Merchant and payment processing
• Rewards and loyalty systems
• Digital card servicing
• Instalment lending / BNPL capabilities

Architecture & Engineering

• Strong understanding of:

• Microservices architecture
• API-first engineering
• Event-driven architecture
• Domain-driven design
• Service-oriented architecture
• Cell-based or platform engineering models
• Experience designing highly scalable, resilient, and secure systems.
• Strong understanding of system integration patterns and enterprise integration challenges.

API & Integration Experience

• Experience building and managing enterprise APIs using:

• REST
• Async/event-driven integrations
• API gateways
• Service mesh concepts
• Experience with:
• Kafka
• Istio
• Tyk
• Experience integrating with legacy and third-party platforms.

Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Experience with cloud-native engineering practices.

• Strong exposure to:
• Amazon Web Services
• Kubernetes
• Containerization and orchestration
• Infrastructure as Code
• Platform automation
• Understanding of observability, monitoring, and operational tooling.

DevSecOps & Engineering Excellence

• Strong experience implementing:

• CI/CD pipelines
• Automated testing strategies
• Secure software development lifecycle
• DevSecOps practices
• Engineering quality controls
• Experience with tools such as:
• GitLab
• Jenkins
• Terraform

Mainframe & Modernization

• Experience working with legacy modernization programs.

• Understanding of:
• Mainframe integration patterns
• API externalization strategies
• Progressive decomposition approaches
• Legacy platform simplification
• Experience modernizing customer-facing capabilities from legacy core systems.

Mobile & Digital Engineering

• Understanding of digital channel engineering including:

• Mobile applications
• Web platforms
• Experience APIs
• Customer-facing journeys
• Exposure to:
• React Native
• Android
• iOS

Data & Operational Resilience

• Experience with:

• High availability systems
• Disaster recovery and resilience engineering
• Operational governance
• Production support models
• Incident management and service recovery
• Strong focus on engineering metrics, reliability, and operational stability.

Agile & Delivery

• Experience leading engineering teams in:

• Agile
• SAFe
• Product-aligned delivery models
• Strong understanding of:
• Value stream delivery
• Engineering productivity
• Incremental delivery models
• Technical debt management

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