Global SVP of Gateway Services

U.S. Bank; City Of London; On-site; GBP 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking an SVP level Engineering Leader to oversee teams in developing omni-commerce solutions. This role involves strategic engineering leadership, problem-solving in complex environments, and managing significant budgets and teams. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in microservices architecture and a strong technical background. Excellent communication and leadership skills are essential for influencing stakeholders and driving results within a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Diverse working environment

Health and financial benefits

Career growth development resources

Qualifications

• 15+ years experience having come from a software engineering background.
• Experience managing teams of 100+ and budgets of $10m+.
• Experience in a regulated financial industry with high uptime responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams on mission-critical platforms to solve complex problems.
• Drive vision and strategy for architecture supporting scale and reliability.
• Influence and collaborate with senior stakeholders across divisions.

Skills

Leadership in engineering

Driving results through OKRs and Metrics

Communication skills

Influencing across teams

Microservices architecture

Problem-solving in technical environments

Cloud Native Architectures

Education

Degree in Computer Science or Similar Technical Discipline

Job description

Overview

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other.

Job Description

Within Gateway Services we are building our next generation omni-commerce Gateway. We are currently hiring an SVP level Engineering Leader to lead our teams within this domain. In this role you will lead highly technical and strategic engineering initiatives on mission-critical platforms across our team, enabling every engineer to their best work.

Your role will be tasked with leading teams who are tasked with solving the most complex, challenging technical problems across this team to meet our demanding needs.

You will play an influential role in partnership with engineering leadership group and other cross-divisional S/VPs of Engineering owning strategy, technical vision and direction for your teams.

In order to excel in this role you will possess:

• Come from an Engineering background, you will have grown your career into engineering leadership, having experience of Managing Managers
• You will have demonstrable experience in driving results through OKRs and Metrics and be able to talk to the impact you have driven.
• You will have managed teams of 100+ and budgets of $10m+
• Possess great instincts and ability to make good judgement calls and execute on those quickly.
• Possess great communication skills (written and verbal)
• Ability to influence across teams and with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to drive vision and strategy for our overall architecture to support scale, performance, resiliency and reliability of our platform.
• Come from a technical background, extremely proficient in microservices architectures, architecture patterns, having created architectures that allow services to be shipped to production multiple times a day as independently releasable microservices.
• Be able to quickly identify problems with our current state solutions and come to solutions quickly to enable critical delivery to move.
• An evangelist who can always keep an eye on the future, and in doing so help keep our teams up to speed on the latest and greatest happenings within technology.
• Strong appreciation of Event Storming and DDD having applied these mythologies in shaping microservices architectures.
• Experience in Cloud Native Architectures.
• Experience in a similar regulated financial industry with responsibility for high uptime
• Strong appreciated for DORA Metrics as well as Flow Metrics.

Additional Experience (nice to have)

• Some experience with GitHub CoPilot, and appreciation for how AI can impact software development, software delivery and resiliency.
• Experience in Java within low latency environments.
• Experience of chaos engineering and patterns that ensure high uptime and resiliency.

Education

• Degree in Computer Science or Similar Technical Discipline.
• 15+ years experience having come from a software engineering background.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits

We offer an exciting, fast-paced and diverse working environment with employees of many different nationalities. We provide benefits to help you protect your health and financial security; and give you peace of mind. We also invest in your career growth with development resources that give you the opportunity to stretch and shine.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.