Director, Software Engineering (Global Wallet Platform)

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of software engineers and build a culture of accountability
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your teams
• Work with product and business group to define the strategy, roadmap, destination architecture and drive solutions, plans, timelines and dependencies to ensure delivery and outcomes.
• Influence business stakeholders across all regions
• Manage a portfolio of diverse technology platforms and projects to build scalable applications that meet our customer needs
• Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack of development tools and technologies
• Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions
• Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community
• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity
• Responsible for Recruitment, Team Engagement, Coaching and Mentoring, Defining Goals, Performance Management, Recognition, Defining and executing upskilling programs.
• Innovation (Evaluating and implementing innovative engineering practices, tools and technologies), Waste Reduction through lean agile process etc.
• Role Requirements
• 15+ years of overall engineering experience with 7+ years of leadership experience.
• Working knowledge of API architecture and microservices, java springboot, cloud services, upstream dependencies and platform as a service concept on delivery.
• Experience in AI initiatives focused on improved productivity and speed to market.
• Managed application engineering services portfolio of 50+ people for a large global organization
• Ability to define and review platform architecture and build enhancement proposals
• Experience in Cloud based architecture and understanding of distributed architectures and its challenges.
• Experience in dealing with high volume, low latency systems viz. scalability, reliability, performance management, observability.
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities with an emphasis on engineering excellence, employee engagement, collaboration, innovation, and stakeholder management.
• Strong communication skills with ability to interact with stakeholders and partners globally.
• Strong presentation skills to articulate technology and business solutions to internal stakeholders and external partners and drive consensus.
• Focus on introducing innovative engineering practices, tools and technologies to continuously improve the quality of the systems and optimize efforts.
• Ability to motivate and inspire everyone to do their best work, resolve conflicts and nurture a positive work environment.
• Experience with Agile software development processes and tools, experience in leading large solutions using Scaled Agile.
• Experience in Financial Services domain, especially digital wallets, banking and Payments.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing trends in technology and to changes in business direction
• We make financial services accessible to humans everywhere. Join us for what's next.
• Western Union is positioned to become the world's most accessible financial services company -transforming lives and communities. We're a diverse and passionate customer-

Additional Information

Director of Engineering (Global Wallet Platform) - Pune, India Are you ready to join a team in a global company? Are you an innovative person who is passionate about software engineering? How about offering up your skills in a global business that is committed to moving money for better? Join Western Union as a Director of Engineering - Global Wallet Platform. Western Union powers your pursuit. In this role, you will be designing and leading the engineering teams that deliver complex platforms and capabilities for continuously evolving our Wallet, banking and Card systems that enable our customers to successfully use our Digital Wallets to store and transact money, ensuring global financial regulatory compliance across various regions in the world. The role will help shape the strategic direction, participate in long term roadmap definition for the teams, drive the engineering execution of the roadmap, and provide engineering leadership on a day-to-day basis. This critical and strategic role will oversee multiple cross functional areas in engineering and enable them to deliver extraordinary technology and business outcomes. You would be performing below responsibilities -

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