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Provides senior technical leadership for a highly critical, enterprise-scale Payment Systems domain supporting all in-store and digital transactions. This role is accountable for the stability, performance, and evolution of a complex, vendor-led commerce platform with extensive integrations across internal systems, financial institutions, and external partners. Leads a lean internal team while exercising strong technical judgment to oversee architecture, review and challenge vendor designs, and guide strategic decision-making without direct hands-on coding.
Job Responsibility:
Manages efforts of others in the achievement of the strategic and operational objectives for the specified area of responsibility
Shares information cross-functionally to improve workflow processes
Manages problems and issues pro-actively, including timely resolution and the identification of remediation opportunities
Oversees the development of technical/business approaches and new or enhanced technical tools
Manages the vendor relationship including determining in scope and out of scope work, working through any interpretation of contract terms and monitoring/reviewing SLA adherence
Ensures delivery against agreed upon SLAs and overall service delivery of operational activities
Understands short and long-term goals and objectives and recommend technical solutions and services
Maintains organization's effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies
Responsible for executing on functional and business goals for the group
May develop budget for functional area
Researches and recommends new and emerging technologies and services within set budget that will enhance Company's overall business performance
Makes recommendations for specified area of responsibility regarding the operating plans
Influences individuals within and outside the IT department
Stays abreast of industry leading best practices and brings them to the attention of the leadership team for innovative application
Oversees and manages managers, and individual contributors
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree and at least 6 years of experience in IT, Engineering, Accounting, Finance, Consulting, Strategy, Project/Program Management and/or Analytics OR a High School diploma/GED and at least 9 years of experience in IT, Accounting, Finance, Consulting, Strategy, Technical Project/Program Management and/or Analytics
Experience establishing & maintaining relationships with individuals at all levels of the organization, including the executive level
Experience with vendor and vendor contract management, including SLA review
Experience diagnosing, isolating, and resolving complex issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems
Experience leading cross-functional teams
At least 2 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace
At least 3 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross-functional team leadership
Willing to travel up to/at least 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state)
Nice to have:
Bachelor’s degree and at least 7 years of experience in IT, Accounting, Finance, Consulting, Strategy and/or Analytics OR a High School diploma/GED and at least 10 years of experience in IT, Accounting, Finance, Consulting, Strategy and/or Analytics
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Mathematics or similar
Master’s degree OR MBA
Experience in a technical lead, senior engineering lead, or architecture-focused leadership role, with responsibility for reviewing and influencing system design and technical decisions (hands-on coding not required)
Experience supporting complex, highly integrated enterprise platforms, ideally in transaction-heavy or mission-critical domains such as payments or commerce
Demonstrated ability to engage in architecture- and design-level technical discussions, explain system behavior and tradeoffs, and challenge vendor-provided solutions when appropriate
Experience operating in vendor-led development environments, including oversight of third-party teams, review of technical designs, and accountability for platform stability, scalability, and cost