Senior Manager Engineering [T500-23694]

Position Title: Sr. Manager Engineering

Job Description:

We are excited to announce an opening for Senior Manager Engineering at ACI. Please find below the details of the role and its responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead 2-3 medium size projects and manage 3-4 subsystems.
• Oversee a team of 10 - 20 resources (may include contractors).
• Work closely with their director to ensure that they clearly understand the business priorities and are working on the right project.
• Accountable for the successful delivery (on-time, on-budget, w/ highest quality) of all Integration projects across different tools and technologies.
• Provide technical leadership and direction to evaluate third party systems and their integrations, prototype new components, as per the requirements.
• Ensure alignment with the company's standards and procedures and propose optimizations for existing processes to expedite day-to-day job.
• Should be data and metrics oriented.
• Work closely with other teams to capture and understand their future needs in advance.
• Foster a strong vendor partnership that encourages collaboration and offers improvement opportunities for functionality, reliability and cost savings.
• Provide team members with an environment of coaching, mentoring, feedback and staff development.
• Hire, coach, train, and lead a high Caliber and diverse team of professional technology specialists who will provide development expertise and guidance across IT.
• Lead efforts to ensure the workplace environment supports a highly motivated and effective workforce focused on continuous improvement and best practices

Experience:

• 10+ years of full stack development.
• 5+years of experience leading effective development teams that are both technical and functional.
• Deep understanding of the end-to-end payment's ecosystem, including digital payments, card networks, real time payments, settlement, reconciliation, and dispute management.
• Experience working with ISO 8583, ISO 20022, payment gateways, tokenization, fraud detection, and PCI compliance.
• Prior experience building high availability, low latency transaction systems processing large transaction volumes.
• Proven ability to deliver against project schedules and timelines with quality.
• Demonstrated ability to proactively manage key objectives of the costs and benefits associated with the implementation and operation of technology services
• Ability to build a team and maintain positive working relationships of the team across the company.
• Ability to communicate at both a technical and executive level.
• Results oriented, willing to take responsibility and accept accountability for action.
• Strong communication and leadership skills with the demonstrated abilityto lead and influence IT professionals across the enterprise.
• Comfortable with ambiguity as needs changeon a regular basis with a high degree of initiative and sense of urgency.
• Excellent oral and written skills with the ability to interact with senior management, technical subjectmatter experts, and business customers are all essential in this role.
• Ability to work on multiple initiatives and projects simultaneously.

Competencies:

• Compassionate and kind, showing courtesy, dignity, & respect. They show sincere interest & empathy for all others.
• Foster innovation through creativity to get to a workable solution. Use analytical thinking through issues using logic and reason
• Show integrity in what is done and how it is done - without sacrificing personal / business ethics.
• Embrace an inclusion-focused mindset, seeking input from others on their work and encouraging the open expression of diverse ideas and opinions.
• Team-oriented, positively contributing to team morale & willing to help.
• Learning-Focused, finding ways to improve in their field and use positive constructive feedback to grow personally and professionally.
• Think strategically and proactively anticipate future problems, needs or changes in the work.

Skills Required:

• 7-10+ years of experience in development and engineering.
• Experience leading technical and functional development teams.
• Proven ability to deliver projects on time and within budget.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Strong Analytical and Problem-Solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives and projects simultaneously.
• Proficiency in Java, ReactJS, HTML, Spring Boot, and other relevant technologies.
• Experience with Azure / GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and version control systems.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices, and API management.
• Strong system design skills.
• Results-oriented with a high degree of initiative and sense of urgency.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to interact with senior management, technical experts, and business customers.
• Strong engineering delivery skills with a bias for action and customer focus.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, UX, Operations, and Technology) to maintain high levels of visibility, efficiency, and collaboration.

Additional Skills:

• Experience with TypeScript, GraphQL ,test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, JUnit, Mockito).
• Familiarity with data streaming platforms like Kafka.
• Experience with Cosmos DB, MongoDB, or other NoSQL and SQL database management systems.
• Knowledge of Copilot and other similar tools.