Lead Platform Engineer, Operational Data Store
Global Payments1 day ago
Responsibilities
- Define scalable and resilient architecture for an enterprise Operational Data Store supporting real-time access to critical payment data.
- Drive high availability, low latency, performance, reliability, and operational excellence at enterprise scale.
- Build automation and self-service capabilities that reduce onboarding time and improve engineering productivity.
- Establish technical standards, mentor engineers, and guide architectural decisions across the organization.
- Evolve enterprise data services by converting proof-of-concept initiatives into production-ready platform capabilities.
Requirements
- Proven experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed data platforms in production, including leadership of complex technical initiatives.
- Deep expertise with distributed NoSQL databases and low-latency architectures, including performance, scalability, and reliability optimization.
- Strong experience with Apache Kafka, event-driven systems, and high-volume data streaming solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical direction, influence architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and promote engineering best practices.
- Strong communication, accountability, and ability to translate complex technical challenges into scalable business solutions.
- Preferred experience includes payments, fintech, regulated industries, internal platform products, database-as-a-service, multi-tenant self-service solutions, Apache Iceberg, lakehouse technologies, active-active multi-region architectures, or data infrastructure open-source contributions.
Benefits
- Global and inclusive team environment with opportunities to learn and grow.
- Employment is subject to a drug test for U.S.-based employees receiving a conditional offer.
- Reasonable accommodations are available during hiring and employment.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Global Payments
Global Payments is a public payment technology and merchant services company that provides card acceptance, ecommerce, POS, and integrated software to businesses and financial institutions. It earns primarily from transaction processing fees and software subscriptions, and trades on the NYSE as GPN. Headquartered in Atlanta, it is a Fortune 500 company and combined with TSYS in 2019 to add issuer processing and banking partnerships.