Our Purpose
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Title and Summary
Vice President, Software Engineering
Overview:
Real Time Payments (RTP) program is leading the secular shift in Payments towards real-time account-to-account payments and provides CNI payment services across 6 markets globally.

Role
We are seeking a Vice President of Software Engineering to provide strategic, technical, and people leadership for the RTP program. This role will lead multiple engineering team and partner closely with global counterparts across engineering, product, operations, risk, security, and customer teams.





The ideal candidate brings a strong techno-functional background, deep expertise in Java-based distributed systems, and a proven track record of building high-availability, low-latency financial platforms with rigorous operational discipline. This leader will balance hands-on technical depth with executive-level leadership, driving platform modernization, resiliency, scalability, and product innovation while maintaining the highest standards of reliability, security, and regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities
Technology & Architecture Leadership
• Develop technical vision and execution for the Send engineering organization, aligned to product and platform roadmap.
• Lead architecture and design decisions for large-scale Java distributed systems, including event-driven architectures, messaging/streaming platforms, APIs, and data stores.
• Drive platform modernization and technology standardization initiatives
• Establish

📌 Vice President, Software Engineering (Pune)
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