Responsibilities

- Oversee end-to-end design and delivery of Java and Hibernate-based applications that power secure and highly available cards and payments processing platforms, ensuring alignment with business and regulatory expectations.
- Lead planning and prioritization of engineering work across multiple hybrid teams to ensure timely delivery of payment features, stability enhancements, and performance optimizations that improve customer transaction journeys.
- Drive architectural decisions for core payment services by defining modular Java components and robust data persistence strategies using Hibernate, focusing on scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency.
- Coordinate closely with product and business stakeholders in the cards and payments domain to translate complex transaction requirements into actionable engineering backlogs and measurable technical outcomes.
- Guide engineering teams in adopting best practices for secure coding, encryption usage, and transaction integrity in Java-based solutions to reduce risk exposure and strengthen trust in payment platforms.
- Manage comprehensive code review practices for Java and Hibernate components to improve code quality, reduce defects, and ensure consistent implementation of domain rules for cards issuance, authorization, and settlements.
- Direct continuous integration and delivery pipelines for payment services, ensuring automated testing of transaction flows, regression validation for card features, and smooth deployments within the day shift hybrid model.
- Collaborate with risk and compliance partners to embed regulatory and scheme requirements into system design for cards and payments, enabling accurate reporting and auditable transaction histories.
- Mentor senior engineers on advanced Java and Hibernate patterns relevant to high-volume payment systems, empowering them to design solutions that support rapid scaling of digital transaction channels.
- Align engineering roadmaps with enterprise goals by prioritizing enhancements that lower payment latency,



improve authorization success rates, and reduce operational incidents impacting cardholders and merchants.
- Ensure robust observability of payment platforms through logging and monitoring approaches tailored to Java services and Hibernate data operations, enabling rapid detection and resolution of transaction issues.
- Coordinate environment and capacity planning with infrastructure teams to support expected transaction peaks in cards and payments, focusing on hybrid deployment models that balance performance and cost.
- Drive collaborative incident reviews for production issues in payment flows, documenting root causes in Java or Hibernate layers and ensuring preventative improvements are implemented across systems.

Qualifications

- Possess extensive experience designing and delivering complex enterprise applications using Java and Hibernate, with proven ability to scale solutions for high-volume financial transactions.
- Demonstrate deep domain understanding of cards and payments, including authorization flows, clearing, settlement, and dispute handling, to translate business rules into precise technical implementations.
- Show strong capability in collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders across product, operations, and compliance to design payment features that meet regulatory expectations and customer experience goals.
- Exhibit proficiency in modern development practices such as code review, automated testing, and continuous integration to maintain reliability and quality of mission-critical payment platforms.
- Apply solid knowledge of data modeling and performance tuning for relational persistence using Hibernate to ensure consistent and effective handling of card and transaction records.
- Utilize excellent communication and coordination skills to manage hybrid teams within the day shift schedule, ensuring clarity of priorities and smooth execution across locations.
- Bring a track record of working on secure software solutions in financial services or similar regulated environments, focusing on protecting transaction data and minimizing operational risk.

📌 Engineering Manager (Chennai)
🏢 Cognizant Technology Solutions India
📍 Chennai