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You will own engineering vision, architecture and delivery across product development, quality assurance, release management, reliability engineering and process automation.\nYou will be a key strategic partner to our Global business, shaping how we build and deliver software and growing the people who do it. You will work closely with product, business and customer-facing leaders to make sure engineering stays aligned with where the company is going.\nWhat You Will Do\nArchitect for Scale & Reliability:Partner with our senior technical architect to shape our architectural direction and engineering vision for Card Issuing. Build and operate foundational, mission-critical, high-availability distributed systems, ensuring fault tolerance and operational excellence at every layer.\n\nElevate Engineering Rigor: Raise the bar for technical excellence. 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