# Director Engineering

About the Role As the Director of Engineering for Card Issuing, you will lead the engineering organization that builds and runs our card issuing product. You will own engineering vision, architecture and delivery across product development, quality assurance, release management, reliability engineering and process automation. You 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. What You Will Do Architect 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. Elevate Engineering Rigor: Raise the bar for technical excellence. Bring deep technical expertise to architectural design discussions, setting standards for code quality, SLOs, and platform scalability. Modernize Development: Champion and integrate modern dev

- **Id**: 4260973
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nium-director-engineering>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Malta
- **Countries**: MT
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T12:00:21Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T11:34:57Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3897
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cards & Card Issuing, Payment Processing & Gateways, Money Transfer & Remittances

## Company

- **Id**: 5992
- **Name**: Nium
- **Domain**: nium.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nium>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 91
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.143
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 78
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Technologies

- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Spring Boot** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Malta** — Iso: MT; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T15:24:25Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 78
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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