{"id":3019603,"url":"https://alion.io/job/global-payments-principal-software-engineer","title":"Principal Software Engineer","company":{"id":2520,"name":"Global Payments","domain":"globalpayments.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/globaltech-poland-sp-z-o-o","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":95,"open_postings":76,"ghost_share":0.026,"stale_share":0.079,"repost_share":0.105,"time_to_fill_p50_days":22,"computed_at":"2026-10-23T05:54:15Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Belfast, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":109000,"max_usd":220000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":49},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Kanban","optional":false},{"name":"NLP","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"Scrum","optional":false},{"name":"SOAP","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-21T17:29:47Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-21","last_verified_at":"2026-10-22T02:56:57Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer and AI thought leader to help define and drive the AI `strategy across the Integrted engineering organisation. This role will provide technical vision, strategic direction, and practical leadership to identify and deliver AI-enabled capabilities that improve customer experiences, accelerate engineering productivity, strengthen operational resilience, and create a competitive advantage.\nAs a Principal Software Engineer, you will combine deep software engineering expertise with AI leadership to guide how teams adopt, evaluate, and scale AI across the software development lifecycle. You will promote responsible AI practices, modern engineering techniques, automation, Continuous Delivery, and measurable continuous improvement.\nYou will be recognised as a trusted technical authority, strategic advisor, mentor, and change agent who helps engineering teams adopt AI in a pragmatic, secure, and value-driven way.\nWhat You’ll Be Doing\nHelp to define and lead the AI strategy for the Integrated engineering organisation, aligned to business priorities, product direction, architecture principles, security expectations, and measurable outcomes.\nAccelerate organizational AI maturity by fostering collaboration, growing internal AI communities, and expanding awareness of AI capabilities that empower teams to innovate and deliver greater impact with engineering and peers within Operations, DevOps, Security and Compliance teams\nIdentify, prioritise, and validate high-impact AI opportunities across product experiences, engineering workflows, developer productivity, quality engineering, operations, support, platform modernisation, knowledge management, and partner ecosystems.\nImprove engineering effectiveness through applied AI, automation, simplification, modern tooling, and continuous improvement.\nChampion responsible and secure AI adoption, ensuring solutions account for data protection, privacy, reliability, explainability, observability, operational support, regulatory expectations, and ethical use.\nLead AI engineering enablement by establishing standards, reusable patterns, reference architectures, evaluation approaches, knowledge-sharing forums, and mentoring practices.\nCoach and mentor engineers to adopt AI-first thinking where it improves outcomes, while maintaining strong engineering discipline, quality, and customer focus.\nEmbed quality throughout the software lifecycle by promoting observable, testable, reliable, and supportable AI-enabled engineering outcomes.\nWhat We Ask For\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field, combined with a passion for developing talent and building high-performing teams. \nStrong hands-on engineering background with experience building, deploying, and scaling production-ready software applications and AI-powered products. \nExceptional communication, stakeholder management, and storytelling skills with the ability to influence decisions across technical and non-technical audiences. \nExperience implementing AI/ML operational practices, including continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), automation, data governance, or real-time data processing solutions. \nUnderstanding of responsible AI practices, including governance, security, privacy, risk assessment, testing, monitoring, human oversight, auditability, and safe adoption within enterprise engineering environments. \nHands-on experience identifying and resolving performance and scalability issues across distributed application architectures and databases. \nUnderstanding of database design, database development, design patterns, refactoring, object-oriented design, and modern software development best practice. \nExperience with web services, including SOAP and RESTful endpoint creation and authentication schemes. \nExperience working in Agile Scrum or Lean Kanban environments, with strong analytical, problem-solving, and organisational skills. \nWhat We’d Love You To Have\n\nPayments domain expertise \nExperience with Natural Language Processing (NLP), conversational AI agents, or large language model application development frameworks. \nKnowledge of cloud and data platforms","description_format":"text","description_chars":4219,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["POS Systems","Cards & Card Issuing","Payment Processing & Gateways"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-21T17:29:47Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"GB","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker)","filings_12m":null,"filings_prev_12m":null,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker","cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-23T06:21:00+00:00","sources":["UK Home Office: register of licensed sponsors (workers)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":22,"reasons":["conf:26","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-23T05:54:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/global-payments-principal-software-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/global-payments-principal-software-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-24T06:07:37Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":8831,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-25T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2520},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2520"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fglobal-payments-principal-software-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fglobal-payments-principal-software-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fglobal-payments-principal-software-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/global-payments-principal-software-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fglobal-payments-principal-software-engineer"}]}