Payment Systems Engineer - ACI MTS

Kforce's client, a large financial services organization in Birmingham, AL, is looking for an experienced Software Engineer III to support critical money transfer and payment processing platforms. Summary: This is a highly specialized role for someone who already has hands-on experience with ACI MTS and UPF in an AIX/UNIX/Linux environment. The Engineer will support the platforms themselves as well as the in-house application layers built around them, with a strong focus on code releases, platform support, and maintaining compliance. This position works a hybrid schedule requiring three days onsite per week. The preference is for candidates located in Birmingham, Atlanta, or Charlotte. What You'll Do:

• Support and maintain ACI MTS (Money Transfer System) and UPF (Universal Payment Framework) platforms
• Manage and coordinate application and platform code releases across lower environments and through the release process
• Execute approximately 4-6 major releases per year, ensuring changes are properly propagated through the required environments
• Support multiple servers and application components running in AIX, UNIX, and Linux environments
• Maintain and support in-house transformation/application layers surrounding the vendor-provided platforms
• Troubleshoot platform and application issues and collaborate with operations teams supporting wire-transfer customers
• Address vulnerabilities and remediation activities to keep systems secure and compliant
• Work closely with business analysts, other engineers, and managed-service resources supporting day-to-day platform operations
• Contribute technical knowledge to an experienced team while continuing to learn and share knowledge with teammates
• 5+ years of relevant experience with ACI MTS and AIX/UNIX environments
• Hands-on experience supporting ACI MTS and UPF platforms
• Strong experience working in AIX, UNIX, and/or Linux environments
• Experience managing and supporting software/code releases across multiple environments
• Ability to troubleshoot and support complex, multi-server application environments
• Experience working with operations/support teams in a production technology environment
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively on an experienced technical team
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this position

• Experience with COBOL programming
• Experience with Perl scripting
• Experience with vulnerability remediation and technology compliance
• Experience supporting payment processing, money movement, wire transfer, or other financial transaction platforms