Director, Applications System Development - job 1 of 2

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services.  Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results.  We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions.  Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow. 

At this time, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States (or applicable country) on a full-time basis without the need for current or future immigration sponsorship. Please note, we are not accepting candidates on H1B or OPT status

What Part Will You Play?

• Leads and develops highly technical team, sometimes with multiple skill-sets and/or locations, supporting application system development, production support and testing.

• Plans, coordinates and leads software development activities for assigned areas in support of client requests, new sales, strategic initiatives, product development and internal enhancements. Establishes priorities for work requests. Provides technical direction. Takes responsibility for quality and timeliness, adjusting resources and escalating major issues, based on business needs and plans. Takes decisions when required and responsibility for issues escalated higher. Ensures methodology is followed and promotes high quality, on-time work. Drives resolutions of issues and roadblocks. Brings large and complex problems to resolution by providing direction, leadership and expertise.

• Participates in the development of Divisional plans and communicates these and progress with team(s). Evaluates industry and technical trends and developments and contributes to the development of application systems and testing.

• Participates in Divisional budgeting / forecasting and planning. Recommends strategies to achieve short and longer-term goals. Manages resource planning with team leadership to achieve key software application systems and testing performance indicators within agreed budgets and Service/Operational Level Agreements. Communicates status of work to executive leadership.

• Develops strong relationships internally and with partners and clients and ensures team have positive relationships. Acts as an ambassador and a senior subject matter expert in client meetings and sales support. May manage key vendor relationships. Helps build cross functional teams and collaborates with leaders to improve cross-functional processes and workflows. Negotiate with stakeholders across business units to achieve satisfactory delivery for clients/customers.

• Ensures that application systems development processes and practices are compliant with corporate and regulatory standards (both domestic and international). Contributes to the development of IT policies and standards. Leads responses to internal and external audits and remediation of any issues. Serves and an escalation point for teams.

• Contributes to the development of strategy, risk management, productivity and quality management within the team. Monitors and evaluates effectiveness of programs and development. Collaborates with senior management to perform continual process improvements that positively impact cost, revenue, performance efficiency, process development and solution delivery. Manages the transition to new tools and processes.

• May lead teams that performs testing and/or the relationships with vendors providing this service. Contributes to the development of testing strategy and plans. Acts as a senior escalation point for testing.

• May act as a senior technical subject matter expert for applications and development, acting as a senior escalation point on technical issues and creating solutions for complex problems and providing direction for own and other teams. Acts as a corporate resource.

• Not an exhaustive list; other duties as assigned.

• Will be on call as an escalation contact and to help resolve complex high severity issues 

What Are We Looking For in This Role?

This role will be located in Columbus, Georgia and is a hybrid role requiring some days in the office and some remote work.  This will be a hands on technical leadership role.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field of study from an accredited university is required; however, relevant experience in lieu of a degree may be considered.

• Minimum of 5 years of Coding in AWS or any cloud technology to include Micro-services, Kubernetes and Java Technology and 8+ years experience as a Technical Lead or in a managerial position.

• Must be willing to be on call 24/7 as an escalation contact

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior TSYS, Credit Card Industry, Banking or FinTech Industry experience is preferred.

• Cloud Architect Experience

• Previous Mainframe Experience

• Migration Experience Leading or Converting Code from Mainframe to Java Based Software

• Open Text Exstream Cloud or Equivelant Composition Software Experience

Technical Experience Preferred

• Front-end:  HTML,JavaScript, jQuery, React

• Back-end: Java 21,  SpringBoot Framework

• Operating Systems – Mac OS X, UNIX;  Microsoft Windows

• Database: Design, familiarity with DDL and DML for one or more of the following databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and DB2.

• Development Tools:  IntelliJ, Eclipse, Visual Studio, Confluence,Gradle, Git, BitBucket and Jenkins

• Tools: Junit, JSON, Yaml, Kafka, Apache Spark and Apache Airflow

• Container Orchestrations: Kubernetes and Docker

• Monitoring Tools: Splunk, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana

• Cloud Technologies: Amazon Web Services or other related services

• Web Servers and Server Management: Apache Tomcat, Ngix, Cloudstack, and VMWare

• Networking: Calico, Platform Load Balancing (PLB)

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