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We advance the way the world pays, banks and invests. We believe in building inclusive, diverse teams. Together, we innovate to help our colleagues, clients and communities succeed. If you're ready to grow your career and make an impact in fintech, we have one question: Are you FIS?\nAbout the Role\nYou will shape the technical direction for mission-critical DevSecOps and Developer Experience platform capabilities across the enterprise. You will define how internal developer platforms, security automation pipelines, and self-service toolchains transform engineering velocity and software delivery quality. As a recognized software engineering expert, you will guide cross-functional teams through undefined technical challenges and establish standards for platform engineering, supply chain security, and developer productivity at scale. Success means delivering precedent-setting solutions, influencing engineering strategy, and enabling 5,000+ engineers to ship faster and more securely.\nWhat You Will Be Doing\nDefine the enterprise architecture and technical strategy for DevSecOps and Developer Experience platform capabilities. \nEstablish reference architectures for internal developer portals, CI/CD pipelines, policy-as-code frameworks, and self-service developer toolchains. \nGuide mission-critical design decisions involving security, scalability, reliability, and platform interoperability. \nEstablish rigorous controls for evaluating, testing, monitoring, and governing security automation and developer platform services. \nOptimize complex platform architectures to support changing compliance requirements and enterprise-scale adoption. \nAdvise engineering, product, and security teams on high-impact technical decisions involving developer productivity and secure software delivery. \nLead investigation and resolution of the organization's most complex platform, pipeline, and security integration challenges. \nCoach senior engineers and technical leads on platform engineering, security automation, and engineering excellence. \nInfluence long-term roadmaps, development practices, and technology investments across the developer experience and DevSecOps domains. \nWhat You Will Need\nMaster-level expertise in platform engineering, developer tooling, and enterprise software architecture. \nAdvanced proficiency with TypeScript, Python, or comparable languages used for building developer platforms and automation pipelines. \nDemonstrated success shaping technical strategy for large-scale, long-term platform engineering initiatives. \nDeep experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Harness CD), cloud-native infrastructure, container orchestration, API design, and production reliability. \nProven ability to establish engineering standards and influence decisions across organizational boundaries. \nExpertise in supply chain security, policy-as-code, secrets management, vulnerability management, and software lifecycle governance. \nAdded Bonus If You Have\nRecognized expertise in Internal Developer Portal design and implementation (Backstage or comparable platforms). \nExperience defining enterprise patterns for SAST/DAST, SCA, and security pipeline integration at scale. \nExperience establishing developer productivity measurement frameworks and DORA/SPACE metric programs. \nFamiliarity with AI-assisted code security scanning or agentic DevSecOps tooling. \nAdvanced degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical discipline. \nWhat We Offer you\nAt FIS, you can grow your career as far as you want to take it. Here’s what else we offer:\nOpportunities to make an impact in fintech \nPersonal and professional learning \nInclusive, diverse work environment \nResources to give back to your community \nCompetitive salary and benefits \nPrivacy Statement\nFIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice.\nEEOC Statement\nFIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here\nFor positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. 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