Head of European Core Processing & Migration Program

Greater Giving, Inc.; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments in Warsaw is seeking a Head of European Core Processing to lead a large software team across Warsaw and Prague and to own two major European payment processing platforms. The role focuses on strategy, architecture, security, and delivery for core processing systems used across multiple European markets.

The position requires senior leadership, agile transformation, and close collaboration with joint ventures and global stakeholders to ensure alignment with regulatory requirements

Qualifications

• 20+ years’ experience in technology change management with 5+ years leading large software organizations.
• Experience scaling engineering teams across multiple locations 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 organization of approximately 250 software professionals across Warsaw and Prague, retaining, motivating and developing highly skilled teams.
• 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.
• Own a multi-year migration programme to move business-critical traffic from legacy systems to go-forward platforms across Europe.
• Act as the Senior Technology Partner and single point of contact for core payment processing in Europe, working with local joint ventures, senior business leaders and global technology stakeholders, to ensure all commercial, legal and financial targets are included in the technology strategy.

Skills

Technology leadership

Large engineering teams

Payments industry knowledge

Live platform migrations

Strategic collaboration

Education

Advanced degree

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Global Payments in Warsaw is seeking a Head of European Core Processing to lead a large software team across Warsaw and Prague and to own two major European payment processing platforms. The role focuses on strategy, architecture, security, and delivery for core processing systems used across multiple European markets.

The position requires senior leadership, agile transformation, and close collaboration with joint ventures and global stakeholders to ensure alignment with regulatory requirements