Key skills
AWSCloudKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesMongoDBNoSQLOpenShift.NETAgileScrumLeadershipRisk ManagementCommunication
About this role
Role Overview
- Provide senior level technical leadership and architectural oversight for complex, enterprise scale platforms.
- Lead architecture design sessions and design reviews, ensuring alignment to non functional requirements including availability, scalability, performance, resiliency, and security.
- Guide teams on architectural tradeoffs and implementation approaches to ensure long term maintainability and operational stability.
- Lead technical direction for teams building highly scalable, event driven systems using modern data streaming, container, and cloud native technologies.
- Translate complex technical concepts, risks, and options into clear, business focused communication for senior leadership and executive audiences.
- Provide strategic oversight for the design, development, and continuous enhancement of the platform, ensuring alignment with business objectives and enterprise architecture standards.
- Manage and lead development efforts for a modern, cloud native technology ecosystem leveraging cutting edge platforms and technologies, including containerized microservices, event driven architectures (Kafka), and NoSQL data stores (MongoDB), deployed on OpenShift/Kubernetes.
- Oversee and coordinate delivery across multiple scrum teams simultaneously, managing dependencies, release planning, and execution risks.
- Drive adoption and maturity of Agile, DevSecOps, and reliability practices, balancing delivery speed with quality, security, and compliance requirements.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a global organization of engineers, technical leads, business systems analysts, and vendor partners.
- Foster a culture of transparent, honest, and respectful communication, ensuring clarity and trust both upward to leadership and downward to teams.
- Serve as the senior escalation point for platform issues and major incidents, ensuring effective resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with information security, infrastructure, and compliance teams to ensure platforms meet regulatory, audit, and risk management expectations.
- Collaborate with business and product stakeholders to translate strategy into executable technology roadmaps.
Requirements
- 7+ years of progressive experience in software engineering or application management.
- 3+ years of experience in a senior technical leadership or people management role.
- Strong technical background in .NET based platforms, microservices architecture, enterprise integration, and cloud native deployments (OpenShift, Kubernetes, AWS or equivalent).
- Demonstrated experience leading distributed teams and managing delivery across multiple agile teams.
- Proven ability to lead architecture discussions and influence technical direction across teams and stakeholders.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage effectively at all levels of the organization, including executive leadership.
- Experience supporting payments platforms or payment processing systems in a regulated financial services environment (preferred).
- Experience working in large scale enterprise or financial services organizations (preferred).
Tech Stack
- AWS
- Cloud
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- Microservices
- MongoDB
- NoSQL
- OpenShift
- .NET
Benefits
- medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature)
- dental and vision options
- employee and spouse/child life insurance
- short and long-term disability protection
- 401(k) with PNC match
- pension and stock purchase plans
- dependent care reimbursement account
- back-up child/elder care
- adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
- educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
- a robust wellness program with financial incentives