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We connect financial institutions, corporations, merchants and consumers to one another millions of times a day - quickly, reliably, and securely. Any time you swipe your credit card, pay through a mobile app, or withdraw money from the bank, we're involved. If you want to make an impact on a global scale, come make a difference at Fiserv.\nJob Title\nPrincipal Engineer, DNA PlatformsAbout your role:\nAs Principal Engineer, DNA Platforms, you will define architecture, engineering strategy, and technical direction for critical platforms and services. You will partner with engineering leaders, product leaders, architects, and business stakeholders to solve complex technical challenges across multiple teams. Your leadership will help advance modernization, scalability, reliability, security, and engineering excellence for solutions that support client outcomes.\nYou will be viewed as a trusted technical advisor and architect who influences engineering strategy across multiple teams. You will balance strategic thinking with hands-on technical depth and drive technical excellence thought influence rather than direct management authority.\nWhat you'll do:\nDefine the technical vision, long-term architecture, and engineering roadmap for DNA Platforms.\nLead solution design, architecture reviews, and technical decision-making for complex, multi-team initiatives.\nDesign scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable software platforms using distributed systems, application programming interfaces (APIs), and cloud-native architecture patterns.\nGuide modernization efforts, platform engineering practices, automation, tooling, and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) adoption.\nEstablish engineering standards, design principles, technical governance, and measurable practices for software quality, observability, performance, reliability, and security.\nManage, coach, and develop engineers and engineering managers through regular feedback, technical guidance, and performance conversations.\nLead technical forums, design reviews, and knowledge-sharing practices that build engineering capability across geographically distributed teams.\nResponsibilities listed are not intended to be all-inclusive and may be modified as necessary.\nExperience you'll need to have:\n12+ years of experience in software engineering, including architecture and delivery of large-scale enterprise platforms.\n8+ years of experience managing and developing teams in engineering, architecture, or platform technology functions.\n10+ years of experience designing distributed systems, APIs, cloud-native architectures, and modern software delivery practices.\n8+ years of experience applying security, reliability, performance, scalability, observability, and maintainability principles to production systems.\nExperience influencing engineering strategy, technical standards, and delivery decisions across multiple teams or organizational boundaries.\nExperience with development, security and operations (DevSecOps), site reliability engineering practices, automation, tooling, and CI/CD pipelines.\nBachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field or equivalent combination of education, related experience and/or military experience.\nExperience that would be great to have:\nExperience with financial technology, banking, payments, risk, or fraud platforms.\nExperience leading platform modernization, cloud adoption, or developer productivity initiatives.\nKnowledge of artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted development, platform engineering, and engineering metrics.\nExperience working with geographically distributed engineering organizations.\nHow you'll work:\nThis role requires use of a computer and audio equipment.\nTravel:\nThis role requires occasional travel (up to 10%).\nSalary Range\n$186,000.00 - $285,600.00These pay ranges apply to employees in New Jersey and New York. Pay ranges for employees in other states may differ.\nIt is unlawful to discriminate against a prospective employee due to the individual's status as a veteran.\nFor incentive eligible associates, the successful candidate is eligible for an annual incentive opportunity which may be delivered as a mix of cash bonus and equity awards in the Company’s sole discretion.Thank you for considering employment with Fiserv. Please:\nApply using your legal name\nComplete the step-by-step profile and attach your resume (either is acceptable, both are preferable).\nOur commitment to Equal Opportunity:\nFiserv is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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