Global SMB Engineering Leader | Platform Modernization

Global Payment Holding Company; United States; Remote; USD 350,000 - 650,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Charity time

Parental leave

Global recognition platform

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Global Payments is seeking an Executive Lead for Global SMB Engineering to steer technology strategy and delivery across a 3,500-strong global engineering organization. Reporting to the Global CTO, you will drive modernization, platform health, and alignment with business goals for SMB products serving millions of merchants.

You will own SMB platforms, set standards for SDLC, testing, and SRE, and lead with a focus on growth, reliability, and security while partnering with Product, Risk and

Qualifications

• Led global engineering at scale with enterprise-grade platforms.
• Built vision and roadmaps for large international teams.
• Delivered complex integrations and APIs with strong security and resiliency.
• Managed enterprise architecture and cloud modernization for payments.
• Turns business goals into technology priorities and trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Define SMB engineering strategy linked to growth, reliability, and security.
• Lead a global organization and executive leadership team.
• Standardize product estate with API-first, cloud-native design.
• Establish SDLC, testing and SRE practices across SMB teams.
• Deliver large modernization programs with scope, quality, timelines.
• Partner with Product, Risk, and Security on threat modeling and fraud mitigation.
• Represent SMB engineering to the CTO and senior leadership.

Skills

Global leadership

Platform strategy

API-first

Cloud native

Security governance

DevOps/SRE

Fraud/risk ML

Payments domain

Enterprise architecture

People development

Tools

APIs

Cloud platforms

Job description

Global Payments is seeking an Executive Lead for Global SMB Engineering to steer technology strategy and delivery across a 3,500-strong global engineering organization. Reporting to the Global CTO, you will drive modernization, platform health, and alignment with business goals for SMB products serving millions of merchants.

You will own SMB platforms, set standards for SDLC, testing, and SRE, and lead with a focus on growth, reliability, and security while partnering with Product, Risk and