Director, Software Engineering

Position Type Full time Type of Hire Experienced (relevant combo of work and education) Job Description Position Overview Director, Software Engineering, is accountable for driving endtoend solution delivery across one of FIS's fastest growing product lines. This role ensures technical execution excellence, product scalability, and operational resilience while partnering closely with Product, Architecture, SRE, Security, and Business stakeholders. The leader will oversee multidisciplinary engineering teams and serve as a key driver of innovation, delivery predictability, and client satisfaction. Job Responsibilities Technology Delivery & Execution Own the full engineering lifecycle—from design to deployment—for assigned solutions. Lead development roadmaps ensuring high quality, timely, and cost-effective delivery. Partner with Product and Architecture to translate business objectives into executable technical solutions. Enforce engineering best practices, modern DevOps, CI/CD, cloud first, and automation standards. People Leadership Lead, mentor, and develop high performing engineering teams. Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement. Support staffing, hiring, onboarding, coaching, and succession planning. Stakeholder Partnership & Communication Serve as the primary point of technical leadership across Product, SRE, Operations, and Security. Communicate progress, risks, and strategy effectively to senior leadership. Coordinate cross‑team collaborations for major releases, client escalations, and platform upgrades. Engineering Governance & Quality Drive compliance with the Change Gate process, ensuring vulnerabilities, EOL components, and remediation plans are properly executed with SRE and Security teams. Ensure solution releases meet all risk, compliance, and architectural standards. Lead efforts to improve system reliability, monitoring, and incident reduction. Strategic Influence & Product Growth Shape long‑term technology strategy for a product line experiencing significant client and revenue growth (e.g., 13%+ growth and large incoming pipeline). Introduce technical innovations that improve scalability, performance, and client experience. Partner with business leaders to align investments, capacity, and priorities. Required Skills 10+ years of software engineering leadership within large‑scale, mission‑critical products. Deep experience in cloud engineering, microservices, DevOps, and modern architecture. Proven ability to lead distributed engineering teams. Strong understanding of secure SDLC, resiliency, and production operations. Preferred Skills Experience leading technology transformation initiatives in financial services or similarly regulated environments. Prior exposure to product lines with high client growth and scale requirements. Experience collaborating with SRE, Architecture, and Security organizations. Privacy Statement FIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice. EEOC Statement FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here. #J-18808-Ljbffr