Payments Development Lead

Tata Consultancy Services; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Limited is seeking a Payments Development Lead to drive API development, modernization, and cloud migration across Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms. The role focuses on designing scalable APIs, migrating services to AWS, and delivering secure, high-performance solutions with full lifecycle ownership.

The candidate will lead API design, development, testing, deployment, governance, and production support while collaborating with architects,

Qualifications

• Experience in API development and microservices.
• Cloud migration to AWS.
• Knowledge of cloud-native API architecture and security.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance, and support secure, scalable APIs and microservices for Payments and related platforms.
• Participate in modernization and migration of APIs to AWS cloud-native architectures.
• Develop cloud-native solutions using AWS services like API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, S3, IAM.
• Build/maintain RESTful APIs with Java/Spring Boot and AWS technologies.
• Support and enhance existing API platforms by troubleshooting issues and improving performance.
• Develop event-driven solutions using Kafka, SNS, and SQS to support real-time processing.

Skills

Payment

Job description

Payments Development Lead

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Lead consultant - API Development & Cloud Migration to contribute towards the design, development, modernization, migration, and support of enterprise APIs across Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms. This role will play a critical part in transforming legacy services into cloud-native, scalable API-driven solutions while enabling seamless integration across internal and external systems.

The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in API development, microservices development, and cloud migration strategies, with strong hands-on experience in AWS technologies. The candidate will be responsible for designing and delivering secure, high-performance APIs, migrating existing services and integrations to AWS, and translating business requirements into resilient and scalable cloud-native solutions. This role requires active involvement throughout the API lifecycle, including architecture, development, testing, deployment, governance, monitoring, troubleshooting, and production support while collaborating closely with architects, engineers, product owners, and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance, and support secure, scalable, and high-performing APIs and microservices for Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms.
• Participate in the modernization and migration of APIs and integration services from on-premises environments to AWS cloud-native architectures.
• Develop cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS services including API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, IAM, KMS, and AWS Transfer Family.
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS-native technologies while following enterprise architecture and security standards.
• Support and enhance existing API platforms by troubleshooting issues, implementing new functionality, improving resiliency, and optimizing performance.
• Develop and maintain event-driven solutions using Apache Kafka, Amazon SNS, and Amazon SQS to support real-time payment and money movement processing.
• Build, deploy, and support containerized applications using OpenShift, Docker, and AWS ECS platforms.
• Collaborate with architects, product owners, business partners, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Implement secure coding practices and API security controls including authentication, authorization, encryption, and secrets management.
• Optimize API performance, scalability, and reliability through performance tuning, monitoring, and proactive problem resolution.
• Participate in API migration activities, including legacy application assessment, refactoring, testing, deployment, and production cutover support.
• Create and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to automate provisioning and deployment of cloud resources.
• Implement and support CI/CD pipelines to enable automated build, testing, deployment, and release processes.
• Utilize observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, Grafana, and Splunk to monitor application health and troubleshoot production issues.
• Participate in on-call support, incident resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure platform stability and operational excellence.
• Contribute to code reviews, technical design discussions, and engineering best practices to improve software quality and maintainability.

Salary Range- $100,000-$110,000 a year

Location

Raleigh, NC

Function

TECHNOLOGY

Role

Technical Lead

ID

437597

Skills

Payment

Salary Range

$100,000 - $110,000