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Leads an autonomous team of 8–10 engineers developing payment acceptance and value-added services such as network tokens, account updater, 3DS, and account validation. Oversees AI-augmented software delivery, architecture, hiring, coaching, roadmap collaboration, reliability, security, incident response, testing, observability, and compliance. Partners cross-functionally to deliver scalable, secure, enterprise-grade financial products and participates in on-call rotations.

Own quality engineering for high-throughput payment systems by architecting automated regression, performance, stress, and load testing. Build emulators for external payment systems, integrate quality gates into CI/CD pipelines, validate microservices, event-driven architectures, and databases, and use Prometheus and Grafana for observability. Apply AI-assisted testing, synthetic data generation, and edge-case analysis while mentoring engineers and preventing incidents through telemetry-driven testing and post-mortems.

Lead platform engineering for high-scale, multi-region AWS payment infrastructure. Architect immutable, highly available, self-healing systems; automate infrastructure through Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD, and Kubernetes; establish observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry; own incident management and resiliency improvements; design private connectivity; and mentor engineers while driving organization-wide platform standards.

Lead the architecture, scaling, reliability, and security of multi-region AWS infrastructure supporting high-throughput payment systems. Build immutable, self-healing environments with Terraform, Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD, and automated resiliency. Develop observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry; manage incidents and post-mortems; improve engineering velocity through Golden Paths and platform enablement; and mentor engineering teams on reliable infrastructure practices.

Leads VGS’s strategic partnerships across payments, commerce technology, card networks, cloud providers, AI platforms, wallets, and infrastructure partners. Responsibilities include managing a partnerships team, developing ecosystem and product strategies, negotiating complex commercial and technical agreements, coordinating cross-functional launches, building executive relationships, and translating market insights into product roadmap and growth opportunities. Requires deep payments ecosystem knowledge, strategic partnership experience, and the ability to connect technical capabilities with partner needs.

Own the product strategy and delivery of network services, including card network and payment gateway integrations. Define unified APIs, webhook models, technical roadmaps, and feature specifications. Partner with engineering, security, UX, legal, and external networks from discovery through launch. Lead customer onboarding, documentation, integration support, and developer enablement. Track adoption, reliability, latency, error rates, integration cycle time, and SLA performance using SQL-driven analysis.