Senior Manager, Applications System Development

Tsys Global Solutions; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments is seeking a Software Development Manager to join our Global API team and help lead the delivery of secure, scalable, API-driven payment solutions that power millions of transactions daily.

You will manage and develop engineering talent, partner with product and architecture teams, and drive Scrum ceremonies and delivery planning while ensuring best practices across CI/CD, testing, security, reliability, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional technology experience, including backend/API platforms.
• 3+ years of managing engineering teams or people leadership.
• Strong understanding of API design, RESTful services, and microservices.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and secure development practices.
• Proven ability to lead in Agile/Scrum environments and drive delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead API Platform delivery, manage engineering talent, and drive Agile execution across multiple teams.

Job description

Job Summary

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.

We are looking for a Software Development Manager to join our ever-evolving Engineering Platform - Global API team and help lead the delivery of secure, scalable, and high-performing API-driven global payment solutions.

Responsibilities

• In this role, you will combine API domain expertise, strong people management, delivery ownership, and Agile execution. You will manage and develop engineering talent, partner with product and architecture teams, drive Scrum ceremonies and delivery planning, and ensure teams follow strong engineering practices across CI/CD, testing, security, reliability, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• Years of Experience: 12+ years of professional technology experience, including strong exposure to backend/API platforms and at least 3+ years managing engineering teams, delivery ownership, or people leadership responsibilities.


• People Management: Proven ability to lead, coach, and develop engineers; manage performance, priorities, and career growth; build accountability; and create a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team culture.


• API and Technical Expertise: Strong understanding of API design, RESTful services, microservices, integration patterns, API gateways, authentication, authorization, security policies, and scalable backend platform delivery.


• CI/CD and Engineering Practices: Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, release management, code quality controls, secure development practices, observability, production support, and continuous improvement across engineering teams.


• Scrum and Delivery Management: Strong experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, dependency management, and predictable delivery tracking.


• Stakeholder Communication and Ownership: Excellent communication skills with the ability to align engineering, product, architecture, operations, and business stakeholders on priorities, risks, trade-offs, timelines, and delivery outcomes.

Preferred qualifications

• Payments or Fintech Domain: Experience working in payments, banking, fintech, or other high-volume transaction processing environments, with exposure to security, compliance, and operational resilience expectations.


• Apigee and API Management Platforms: Hands-on experience with Apigee Edge, Apigee X, or similar API management platforms, including API proxy design, policies, traffic management, security, monitoring, and operational support, along with exposure to cloud-native application delivery.


• Leadership and Team Development: Experience hiring, onboarding, mentoring, succession planning, improving team operating models, and helping teams adopt modern Agile and DevOps practices.

About the team

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