Engineering Director Credit Cards

This role requires deep technology leadership across large-scale engineering organizations, with strong expertise in credit cards technology, modern architecture, cloud platforms, engineering excellence, and resilient delivery in regulated enterprise environments. This role will require managing multi-journey feature teams with an overall team size of 150 to 200.
Core Technology Leadership
Extensive experience leading large-scale engineering organizations delivering enterprise-grade platforms and customer journeys.
Strong experience operating in complex distributed systems and highly regulated environments.
Proven experience leading engineering modernization and transformation initiatives and leading large teams working in scaled agile.
Credit Card & Payments Domain Experience
Strong experience in one or more areas:
Credit card issuing platforms
Card lifecycle management
Authorization and transaction processing
Billing and statements
Disputes and chargebacks
Fraud and risk integration
Merchant and payment processing
Rewards and loyalty systems
Digital card servicing
Instalment lending / BNPL capabilities
Architecture & Engineering
Strong understanding of:
Microservices architecture
API-first engineering
Event-driven architecture
Domain-driven design
Service-oriented architecture
Cell-based or platform engineering models
Experience designing highly scalable, resilient, and secure systems.
Strong understanding of system integration patterns and enterprise integration challenges.
API & Integration Experience
Experience building and managing enterprise APIs using:
REST
Async/event-driven integrations
API gateways
Service mesh concepts
Experience with:
Kafka
Istio
Tyk
Experience integrating with legacy and third-party platforms.
Cloud & Platform Engineering
Experience with cloud-native engineering practices.
Strong exposure to:
Amazon Web Services
Kubernetes
Containerization and orchestration
Infrastructure as Code
Platform automation
Understanding of observability, monitoring, and operational tooling.
DevSecOps & Engineering Excellence
Strong experience implementing:
CI/CD pipelines
Automated testing strategies
Secure software development lifecycle
DevSecOps practices
Engineering quality controls
Experience with tools such as:
GitLab
Jenkins
Terraform
Mainframe & Modernization
Experience working with legacy modernization programs.
Understanding of:
Mainframe integration patterns
API externalization strategies
Progressive decomposition approaches
Legacy platform simplification
Experience modernizing customer-facing capabilities from legacy core systems.
Mobile & Digital Engineering
Understanding of digital channel engineering including:
Mobile applications
Web platforms
Experience APIs
Customer-facing journeys
Exposure to:
React Native
Android
iOS
Data & Operational Resilience
Experience with:
High availability systems
Disaster recovery and resilience engineering
Operational governance
Production support models
Incident management and service recovery
Strong focus on engineering metrics, reliability, and operational stability.
Agile & Delivery
Experience leading engineering teams in:
Agile
SAFe
Product-aligned delivery models
Strong understanding of:
Value stream delivery
Engineering productivity
Incremental delivery models
Technical debt management

Work arrangement
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