European Core Processing Director — Payments Platform

Global Payments Inc.; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments Inc. in Warsaw seeks a Head of European Core Processing to lead our two major European payment processing platforms from Warsaw and Prague.

You will shape the technology strategy, drive security, architecture, and delivery for multi-country processing of millions of payments daily. This senior leadership role requires 20+ years in technology change, 5+ years leading large teams, and a proven record of global-scale migrations.

Qualifications

• 20+ years' experience in technology change management, including business and commercial considerations, with 5+ years experience managing large software organizations.
• Proven experience scaling large engineering teams across multiple locations and supporting business units in a global environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale, high-availability, low-latency technology platforms, ideally within payments or another highly regulated environment.
• Experience leading live, real-time platform migrations and complex transformation programmes involving senior stakeholders.
• Strong ability to translate business vision into deliverable software components, build strong engineering culture and partner effectively with senior technology and business leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a technology organisation of approximately 250 software professionals across Warsaw and Prague, retaining, motivating and developing highly skilled teams. Continuously adopt change to maintain a high performing team.
• Define the technology strategy for European core payment processing platforms, ensuring they support Global Payments' strategic business priorities in the coming years.
• Partner with Product to build a stable and predictable roadmap, while ensuring the engineering delivery model operates with quality, pace and strong throughput, as well as other members of the technology leadership team at a strategic level to deliver combined key commitments
• Own a multi-year migration programme to move business-critical traffic from legacy systems to go-forward platforms across Europe.

Skills

Leadership

Strategy development

Software architecture

Team management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Advanced degree in technical or business field

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Cloud platforms

Job description

Global Payments Inc. in Warsaw seeks a Head of European Core Processing to lead our two major European payment processing platforms from Warsaw and Prague.

You will shape the technology strategy, drive security, architecture, and delivery for multi-country processing of millions of payments daily. This senior leadership role requires 20+ years in technology change, 5+ years leading large teams, and a proven record of global-scale migrations.