VP of Gateway Services (Global)

U.S. Bank; City Of London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in the City of London seeks a VP level Engineering Leader to spearhead technical initiatives across mission-critical platforms. This role requires a strong engineering background, leadership skills for managing large teams, and a proven ability to drive results through metrics and strategic vision. Key responsibilities include solving complex problems, influencing stakeholders, and enhancing architecture for scalability and reliability.

Benefits

Career growth resources

Diverse working environment

Health and financial security benefits

Qualifications

• Experience managing teams of 50+ and budgets of $5m+.
• Strong ability to influence across teams and senior stakeholders.
• Proven track record of driving performance through architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical initiatives on mission-critical platforms.
• Solve complex technical problems to meet demanding needs.
• Drive vision and strategy for architecture supporting scale and resiliency.

Skills

Communication skills

Engineering leadership

Microservices architectures

OKRs and Metrics

Event Storming

Cloud Native Architectures

Education

Degree in Computer Science

15+ years in software engineering

Job description

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 a VP 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 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 VPs of Engineering owning strategy, technical vision and direction for your teams.

Responsibilities and Qualifications:

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 50+ and budgets of $5m+
• 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 creating / engineering Cloud Native Architectures.

Additional Experience (nice to have):

• Some experience with Model Context Protocol / AI having had some experience in how this can shape the future of software engineering.
• 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.

Please note that posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.