Director of Engineering, Digital API Platforms

Job Description

We are FIS. Our technology powers the world’s economy and our teams bring innovation to life. We champion diversity to deliver the best products and solutions for our colleagues, clients and communities. If you’re ready to start learning, growing and making an impact with a career in fintech, we’d like to know: Are you FIS?

Role and Responsibilities 

Reporting to the Head of Digital Development Enablement, the Director of Digital API Platforms will play a critical role in driving innovation and growth for the Banking Solutions business. In a leadership role in the Digital Technology organization, you will be responsible for transforming our API platforms and driving the movement of the next generation of digital API platforms.  With a focus on digital APIs and serverless cloud technologies, you will collaborate closely with product leaders, and other stakeholders to align product milestones and deliver innovative digital applications and experiences. In this role, the candidate will have the opportunity to make a lasting impact on the company's digital transformation journey, drive customer-centric innovation, and position the organization as a leader in the competitive digital banking landscape. Specifically, the Director of Digital API Platforms will be responsible for the following: 

• Partnering closely with the broader Digital Engineering organization, and Banking product organization to deliver roadmaps and plans to introduce Node and Serverless API capabilities into their platforms. 

• Delivering high-quality and high-performance API solutions to our clients and customers for all product areas in the Digital Solutions business. 

• Keeping up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies in the API a cloud technology space and bring innovative ideas and best practices to drive continuous improvement. 

• Owns the design, execution, rollout, and evangelism of the API platforms. 

• Plan and coordinate reviews and approval of technical deliverables. 

• Continuously improve patterns, practices, and operational efficiency within the team. 

• Conduct assessments, build blueprints and roadmaps, build proofs of concept, and write technical points of view. 

Charter 

• Lead a team of API engineering experts as we look to stand up a new Serverless Node based API platform on AWS. 

• Analyze current API technologies utilized within the company and develop steps and processes to improve and migrate them towards the target stated of Node/Serverless. 

• Establish milestones for necessary contributions from departments and develop processes to facilitate their collaboration. 

• Assist other department engineers in creating practical demonstrations of proposed solutions and demonstrating them to other team members.