Senior Engineering Leader — AI-Driven Payments Platform

ACI Worldwide; Norcross (GA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

ACI Worldwide seeks a hands-on Sr. Engineering Manager to lead a cross-functional team building a low-latency core banking product platform. You will own end-to-end delivery from architecture to production, with a focus on automation, reliability, security, and AI-enabled initiatives.

Location & Work Model: Hybrid role based in Norcross, GA. On-site on designated days; some remote days allowed per team needs. Strong leadership and cloud-native experience are required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering building distributed systems.
• 4+ years leading teams (engineering, DevOps and/or QE leadership experience strongly preferred).
• Proven experience building and operating low-latency, high-throughput systems in banking, payments, or other regulated transaction platforms.
• Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures; Java backend; Angular; Ansible; Nexus; Cloud Infrastructure (Azure, AWS, OpenShift).
• Demonstrated delivery of AI projects implemented in real environments (production or production-like).
• Strong engineering excellence mindset: automated testing, security-by-design, observability, and disciplined release practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a cross-functional team spanning backend, frontend, DevOps/Platform engineering, and QE; drive ownership and continuous improvement.
• Own delivery for roadmap initiatives and platform modernization across the full SDLC: planning, design, implementation, testing, release and production operations.
• Establish and communicate technical direction with Product Management and Architecture to meet business goals and non-functional requirements.
• Drive latency engineering: define SLOs, budgets, regression testing, and capacity planning for low-latency performance.
• Build an on-going operational readiness: observability, runbooks, safe rollouts, and rapid rollback practices.
• Lead cloud-native delivery on Kubernetes (GitOps-based deployment and configuration-as-code).
• Own and evolve CI/CD and artifact practices (Ansible, Nexus, Carvel toolchain, Kubernetes-native release workflows).
• Ensure secure, repeatable environment provisioning and reliable deployments across dev/test/stage/prod with automation as default.
• Build a quality-first test strategy across unit/integration/e2e, with modern test orchestration (Testkube) and CI test execution.
• Drive security and compliance testing as part of CI/CD (SAST/DAST/dependency scanning).
• Lead delivery of AI-enabled initiatives and establish responsible AI usage practices.

Skills

Kubernetes

Java backend development

Angular

Ansible

Nexus

Cloud infrastructure (Azure/AWS/OpenSh

Tools

Kubernetes

Ansible

Nexus

Carvel toolchain

GitOps

Job description

ACI Worldwide seeks a hands-on Sr. Engineering Manager to lead a cross-functional team building a low-latency core banking product platform. You will own end-to-end delivery from architecture to production, with a focus on automation, reliability, security, and AI-enabled initiatives.

Location & Work Model: Hybrid role based in Norcross, GA. On-site on designated days; some remote days allowed per team needs. Strong leadership and cloud-native experience are required.