Software Delivery Director

Country: Spain

PagoNxt is a world-leading payment solution provider for merchants, international corporates, and SME’s. Part of the Santander Group, boasting over 160 years of banking experience and 155 million customers worldwide, PagoNxt is an autonomous company, the Group’s FinTech delivering fast solutions to the payments market.

This position is for the PagoNxt Payments team. We are currently extending our cloud native payments processing platform to Santander banks and other financial institutions, with the aim of providing a single access to most domestic and international payment methods at global scale.

If you would like to join a global community of world-class payment experts, this is the place for you! This is a unique opportunity to work for a company that combines the best of both worlds: innovative technology of a FinTech with the reach and expertise of a leading global financial institution.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

As a Head of software engineering, you will:

• To run and growth and SW engineering team: “Develop and evolution of the Payments Platform”
• Oversee the software development process, manage software engineers, and ensure the quality of software products.
• Drives the software development process toward quality-centric methodologies.
• Being the main responsible for defining and communicating a shared technical and architectural vision of the product.
• Participate in the design of the overall technical vision for a specific solution to a business problem
• Mentor IT Engineering Leads at any technical aspect
• Identify, drive, and optimize technical and business process flows
• Communicate with product organisation, platform and main stakeholders regarding payments platform evolution

EXPERIENCE

• At least 10 years managing IT SW Engineering teams
• Experience working with systems, following CI / CD / DevOps practices

EDUCATION

• Language skills - English (fluid written and oral), Spanish would be a plus
• Degree not required. But preference for computer science or computer engineering.

SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE

• High communication skills
• High analytical skills
• Knowledge of Microservices architectures, API Design, REST APIs
• Basics of Cloud computing (AWS preferred)
• Knowledge of distributed architectures and the challenges they entail
• Experience working in an Agile way would be a plus