Sr. Engineer - SWIFT & Payments (Multiple)

The Technical Lead / Engineering Manager – Global Payments & Financial Messaging provides technical leadership for mission-critical payment processing and international financial messaging platforms. As the organization advances its multi-year modernization strategy—focusing on cloud-native architectures, international message standard transitions (ISO 20022), and heightened operational resilience—this role ensures the delivery of secure, highly available, and scalable technology solutions that satisfy both enterprise business goals and strict global regulatory requirements. The ideal candidate brings significant technical leadership, strong experience with high-throughput distributed systems, event-driven middleware, and proven expertise overseeing mission-critical financial software ecosystems. Key Responsibilities Platform Engineering & Architecture: Lead the technical design, architectural delivery, and ongoing support for global payment processing systems and financial messaging interfaces.Modernization & Cloud Strategy: Drive platform evolution toward cloud-native architectures, containerization, and modern event-driven messaging, ensuring alignment with enterprise technology and security standards.Resiliency & Performance Ownership: Own platform availability, performance optimization, disaster recovery design, and high-availability engineering across production environments.Governance & Operational Controls: Establish engineering best practices, enforce strict change-management governance, mitigate operational risk, and lead audit support for internal and external regulatory bodies.Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner with business leaders, enterprise architects, product managers, and DevOps teams to translate business requirements into robust, production-ready technical solutions. Requirements & Qualifications Professional Experience: 12+ years of enterprise IT/software engineering experience with progressive technical and platform leadership responsibilities.Domain Expertise: Deep technical understanding of global payment processing, clearing and settlement networks, treasury systems, or enterprise financial messaging platforms.Distributed & Cloud Technologies: Hands-on experience with hyperscaler cloud platforms (Azure), containerized environments, modern DevOps/CI-CD workflows, and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, enterprise message queues, APIs, middleware).Standards & Protocols: Knowledge of global messaging standards (such as ISO 20022), international banking network interfaces, and financial industry compliance frameworks.System Diversity: Willingness to oversee and support multi-tier software environments, ranging from cloud-hosted microservices and Linux-based systems to high-availability legacy transaction platforms.Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline. Compensation: $80 to $90 an hour Compensation is based on a range of factors that include relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications.