Director, Salesforce Engineering

Global Payments; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead the Salesforce engineering program. You will steer strategy, delivery, and architecture for scalable platforms that power global commerce and client success.

You will manage globally distributed teams, drive measurable outcomes, and partner with business leaders to translate priorities into high-impact results while maintaining security and compliance across environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years leading Salesforce solutions in complex enterprise environments.
• 7+ years of people leadership with coaching high-performing teams.
• Deep Salesforce expertise across architectures and platforms.
• Strong communication with executive stakeholders.
• Experience delivering platform transformations across geographies and vendors.
• FinTech/payments industry experience is a plus.
• Salesforce certifications across architecture, development, or platform specialties.

Responsibilities

• Drive the strategic direction and delivery of Salesforce capabilities, ensuring scalable, high-quality solutions that accelerate business performance and support long-term growth.
• Lead and empower global engineering teams to deliver measurable outcomes, foster continuous improvement, and build a culture of accountability, innovation, and ownership.
• Influence enterprise technology decisions and architecture, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned to business priorities while minimizing delivery risk.
• Partner with business, product, and technology leaders to transform priorities into impactful outcomes, creating greater value for clients, colleagues, and the organization.

Skills

Salesforce leadership

People leadership

Salesforce expertise

Stakeholder comms

Change leadership

FinTech experience

Salesforce certs

Platform transformations

Job description

Job Description Ready to take your career global? Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Director of Software Engineering to join our ever-evolving Salesforce Engineering Team and help shape the future of global commerce. In this role, you will lead the strategy, delivery, and evolution of critical Salesforce platforms that power business growth, colleague productivity, and client success across Global Payments. You will influence technology direction, drive innovation at scale, and empower globally distributed engineering teams to deliver secure, high-impact solutions that support our mission of enabling seamless commerce worldwide. This is an opportunity to lead transformational initiatives, develop high-performing teams, and create lasting business value while helping shape the future of Global Payments.

What you'll own

Drive the strategic direction and delivery of Salesforce capabilities, ensuring scalable, high-quality solutions that accelerate business performance and support long-term growth.

Lead and empower global engineering teams to deliver measurable outcomes, foster continuous improvement, and build a culture of accountability, innovation, and ownership.

Influence enterprise technology decisions and architecture, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned to business priorities while minimizing delivery risk.

Partner with business, product, and technology leaders to transform priorities into impactful outcomes, creating greater value for clients, colleagues, and the organization.

Optimize investment and vendor performance, ensuring budgets, resources, and delivery commitments maximize efficiency, business value, and return on investment.

What you'll bring

• 10+ years of experience leading and delivering Salesforce solutions within complex enterprise environments, including experience working in Agile delivery models.
• 7+ years of people leadership experience with a proven track record of building, coaching, and developing high-performing engineering teams.
• Deep expertise across Salesforce technologies and platforms, with the ability to balance technical excellence, scalability, and business outcomes.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing executive leaders and driving alignment across cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through change, remove obstacles, and create an environment where teams can innovate, grow, and consistently deliver results.
• It's a bonus if you have Experience within the financial technology (FinTech) or payments industry.
• Salesforce certifications across architecture, development, or platform specializations.
• Proven success leading large-scale platform transformations involving multiple geographies, vendors, and complex stakeholder groups.

About the team

Our inclusive and global teams win together every day.

We’re proud to have the best minds in the industry, who you can learn from as you grow your career.

The people, the energy, the connections – it’s unmatched.

Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.

What makes a Globalpayer? Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team.

We’re curious and innovative – always finding better ways to deliver impact.

We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.

Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.

Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Globalpayer.

EEOC Statement

Global Payments is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

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If you are made a conditional offer of employment and will be working in the United States, you will be required to undergo a drug test.

In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies and requirements needed to successfully perform the position.

Reasonable accommodations will be provided for individuals with qualified disabilities both during the hiring process, as well as to allow the individual to perform the essential functions of the job, if hired.

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At Global Payments (NYSE : GPN), we empower simple, fast, secure payments for everyone. And to do that, we’ve built a complete, worldwide commerce ecosystem that delivers software and services at scale to millions of companies around the world—from ambitious startups to global enterprises. Our team of 27,000 experts is dedicated to your success. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we're a Fortune 500® company and a member of the S&P 500 with worldwide reach spanning North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Wherever you are—or wherever you want to be—we’re there, ready to support you. For more information, visit company.globalpayments.com and follow Global Payments on X, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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EEOC Statement: Global Payments Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Global Payments provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify [e-mail].