Lead Software Engineer(ACI MTS Payments Product Consultant)
Charlotte, Michigan, United States of America
Contract
2 weeks ago
$55 - $65 USD
Key skills
PythonJavaSwiftShellAIKafkaSpringRailsOracleCI/CDLeadershipMentoring
About this role
Immediate need for a talented Lead Software Engineer(ACI MTS Payments Product Consultant). This is a 12+ Months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is in Charlotte NC (Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.
Job Diva ID: 26-12918
Pay Range: $55 - $65/hr . Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
Key Responsibilities :
- Lead the design and development of highquality software solutions aligned with enterprise architecture, nonfunctional requirements, and modern engineering best practices.
- Collaborate closely with architects, senior engineers, and product partners to support modernization initiatives, including cloud readiness, API design, data strategy, and application migration.
- Serve as a technical lead during crossteam initiatives providing guidance on design, integration, performance, and deployment.
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues, identify root causes, and help drive resolution of development, build, or deployment blockers.
- Participate actively in coding, peer reviews, design discussions, and technical decisionmaking.
- Ensure solutions meet security, scalability, performance, and reliability standards.
- Contribute to automation initiatives, CI/CD improvements, DevOps practices, and test automation.
- Support testing phases such as system testing, UAT, and performance validation.
Key Requirements and Technology Experience:
- Key skills: Java, Spring, Kafka, ACI Payments Stack.
- 6+ years of software engineering experience (or equivalent via work experience, training, military, or education).
- 6+ years of handson development experience in a technical engineering role.
- 3+ years in ACI payments application suite, ACI MTS, UPF & APSF
- Experience in providing technical leadership or mentoring within a team
- Experience with payments systems such as ACH and/or Wires.
- Hands-on experience with ACI UPF (Universal Payments Framework) including:
- Endpoint, Gateway, and Bank Adapter configurations
- Message routing rules and processing rule setup
- Cartridge deployment and lifecycle management
- UPF Control Center operations (monitoring, auditing, alerting)
- Security configurations, including SBP (Security Best Practices), crypto policies, and keystore/truststore management
- Experience with UPF 5.x message flows, logging, troubleshooting, and ISO 20022 message orchestration
- Experience with ACSF/APSF configurations, WebSphere deployments, and automation (Jython/Python, Unix shell scripting).
- Experience with ACI MTS, including Entia setup, routing rules, remote records, and line configurations.
- Strong understanding of global payment rails (FED, CHIPS, CHAPS, TARGET, SWIFT).
- Exposure to ISO 20022 implementations.
- Solid experience with Microservices, J2EE, middleware, transaction management, security, connection pooling, messaging, and performance tuning.
- Experience conducting NFR testing including RTO/RPO validation.
- Experience collaborating across distributed/virtual teams.
- Strong analytical and problemsolving skills, with high attention to detail.
- 4+ years with JMS, 4+ years with Kafka/Confluent, and 3+ years with Oracle.
- Experience with secure DevOps, cloud deployment automation, and test automation.
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