Payments Development Lead

Job Description

Payments Development Lead

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Lead consultant - API Development & Cloud Migration to contribute towards the design development modernization migration and support of enterprise APIs across Payments Money Movement and Information Reporting platforms. This role will play a critical part in transforming legacy services into cloud-native scalable API-driven solutions while enabling seamless integration across internal and external systems.

The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in API development microservices development and cloud migration strategies with strong hands-on experience in AWS technologies. The candidate will be responsible for designing and delivering secure high-performance APIs migrating existing services and integrations to AWS and translating business requirements into resilient and scalable cloud-native solutions. This role requires active involvement throughout the API lifecycle including architecture development testing deployment governance monitoring troubleshooting and production support while collaborating closely with architects engineers product owners and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Design develop enhance and support secure scalable and high-performing APIs and microservices for Payments Money Movement and Information Reporting platforms.

Participate in the modernization and migration of APIs and integration services from on-premises environments to AWS cloud-native architectures.

Develop cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS services including API Gateway Lambda ECS Step Functions SQS SNS DynamoDB RDS S3 IAM KMS and AWS Transfer Family.

Build and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices using Java Spring Boot and AWS-native technologies while following enterprise architecture and security standards.

Support and enhance existing API platforms by troubleshooting issues implementing new functionality improving resiliency and optimizing performance.

Develop and maintain event-driven solutions using Apache Kafka Amazon SNS and Amazon SQS to support real-time payment and money movement processing.

Build deploy and support containerized applications using OpenShift Docker and AWS ECS platforms.

Collaborate with architects product owners business partners and engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Implement secure coding practices and API security controls including authentication authorization encryption and secrets management.

Optimize API performance scalability and reliability through performance tuning monitoring and proactive problem resolution.

Participate in API migration activities including legacy application assessment refactoring testing deployment and production cutover support.

Create and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to automate provisioning and deployment of cloud resources.

Implement and support CI/CD pipelines to enable automated build testing deployment and release processes.

Utilize observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace Amazon CloudWatch AWS X-Ray Grafana and Splunk to monitor application health and troubleshoot production issues.

Participate in on-call support incident resolution root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure platform stability and operational excellence.

Contribute to code reviews technical design discussions and engineering best practices to improve software quality and maintainability