The Engineering Director for Credit Cards will lead large-scale teams delivering enterprise credit card solutions, oversee engineering modernization and transformation, and ensure high availability systems align with agile methodologies.
Job Description
This role requires deep technology leadership across large-scale engineering organizations, with strong expertise in credit cards technology, modern architecture, cloud platforms, engineering excellence, and resilient delivery in regulated enterprise environments. This role will require managing multi-journey feature teams with an overall team size of 150 to 200.
Core Technology Leadership
- Extensive experience leading large-scale engineering organizations delivering enterprise-grade platforms and customer journeys.
- Strong experience operating in complex distributed systems and highly regulated environments.
- Proven experience leading engineering modernization and transformation initiatives and leading large teams working in scaled agile.
Credit Card & Payments Domain Experience
- Strong experience in one or more areas:
- Credit card issuing platforms
- Card lifecycle management
- Authorization and transaction processing
- Billing and statements
- Disputes and chargebacks
- Fraud and risk integration
- Merchant and payment processing
- Rewards and loyalty systems
- Digital card servicing
- Instalment lending / BNPL capabilities
Architecture & Engineering
- Strong understanding of:
- Microservices architecture
- API-first engineering
- Event-driven architecture
- Domain-driven design
- Service-oriented architecture
- Cell-based or platform engineering models
- Experience designing highly scalable, resilient, and secure systems.
- Strong understanding of system integration patterns and enterprise integration challenges.
API & Integration Experience
- Experience building and managing enterprise APIs using:
- REST
- Async/event-driven integrations
- API gateways
- Service mesh concepts
- Experience with:
- Kafka
- Istio
- Tyk
- Experience integrating with legacy and third-party platforms.
Cloud & Platform Engineering
- Experience with cloud-native engineering practices.
- Strong exposure to:
- Amazon Web Services
- Kubernetes
- Containerization and orchestration
- Infrastructure as Code
- Platform automation
- Understanding of observability, monitoring, and operational tooling.
DevSecOps & Engineering Excellence
- Strong experience implementing:
- CI/CD pipelines
- Automated testing strategies
- Secure software development lifecycle
- DevSecOps practices
- Engineering quality controls
- Experience with tools such as:
- GitLab
- Jenkins
- Terraform
Mainframe & Modernization
- Experience working with legacy modernization programs.
- Understanding of:
- Mainframe integration patterns
- API externalization strategies
- Progressive decomposition approaches
- Legacy platform simplification
- Experience modernizing customer-facing capabilities from legacy core systems.
Mobile & Digital Engineering
- Understanding of digital channel engineering including:
- Mobile applications
- Web platforms
- Experience APIs
- Customer-facing journeys
- Exposure to:
- React Native
- Android
- iOS
Data & Operational Resilience
- Experience with:
- High availability systems
- Disaster recovery and resilience engineering
- Operational governance
- Production support models
- Incident management and service recovery
- Strong focus on engineering metrics, reliability, and operational stability.
Agile & Delivery
- Experience leading engineering teams in:
- Agile
- SAFe
- Product-aligned delivery models
- Strong understanding of:
- Value stream delivery
- Engineering productivity
- Incremental delivery models
- Technical debt management
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Barclays Pune, Mahārāshtra, IND Office
Pune, Maharashtra , India, 411014
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