Lead Software EngineerWe are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join the Global Payments & Liquidity Treasury Technology organization. This role focuses on delivering high-quality, modern engineering solutions across critical payment platforms.
Responsibilities include:Leading the design and development of high-quality software solutions aligned with enterprise architecture, non-functional requirements, and modern engineering best practices.Collaborating closely with architects, senior engineers, and product partners to support modernization initiatives, including cloud readiness, API design, data strategy, and application migration.Serving as a technical lead during cross-team initiatives-providing guidance on design, integration, performance, and deployment.Troubleshooting complex technical issues, identifying root causes, and helping drive resolution of development, build, or deployment blockers.Participating actively in coding, peer reviews, design discussions, and technical decision-making.Ensuring solutions meet security, scalability, performance, and reliability standards.Contributing to automation initiatives, CI/CD improvements, DevOps practices, and test automation.Supporting testing phases such as system testing, UAT, and performance validation.Required Qualifications:6+ years of software engineering experience (or equivalent via work experience, training, military, or education).6+ years of hands-on development experience in a technical engineering role.3+ years in ACI payments application suite, ACI MTS, UPF & APSFExperience in providing technical leadership or mentoring within a team.Desired Qualifications: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 configurationsMessage routing rules and processing rule setupCartridge deployment and lifecycle managementUPF Control Center operations (monitoring, auditing, alerting)Security configurations, including SP (Security Best Practices), crypto policy keystore/truststore managementExperience with UPF 5.x message flows, logging, troubleshooting, and ISO 2 message orchestrationExperience 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, SWIF)Exposure to ISO 20022 implementations.Solid experience with Microservices, JEE, 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 problem-solving 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.Job Expectations:Ability to work onsite at one of the posted locations.Relocation assistance is not available.