VP, Software Development

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Job Title

VP, Software Development

About your role:

As a VP, Software Development at Fiserv, you will spearhead efforts to modernize and rearchitect our applications, ensuring they align with business demands. You will develop strategic technology roadmaps while collaborating closely with product managers, designers, agile coaches, and clients in an Agile environment to deliver high-value software. You will foster a client-centric engineering culture and lead multiple critical workstreams with a focus on swift execution and engineering excellence.

This leadership role is within Merchants Technology and will responsible for driving the build, delivery and technology management of Partner Referrals, Sales Enablement and Digital Onboarding products for the SMB Merchants segment. In addition to a strong technical background and a proven delivery management experience, this role requires strong client relationship skills and frequently, is called upon to ideate alongside product partners and key client stakeholders to develop and deliver optimal integration solutions for them.

What you'll do:

• Deliver high-quality solutions and product capabilities efficiently
• Drive engineering and technology excellence across multiple groups and build client centric solutions
• Build, nurture and lead teams to achieve rapid, high-quality results and align on measurable goals
• Identify and implement systems and tools to enhance engineering velocity and evolve the product portfolio
• Attract, evaluate, and guide top software engineering talent to drive innovation and client value
• Maintain and enhance an engineering culture focusing on ownership, autonomy, quality, and speed

Experience you'll need to have:

• 12+ years of experience leading development teams and organizations across all lifecycle phases and driving process improvements
• 8+ years of experience in full-stack software development, cloud services, data structures, and resilient services
• 8+ years of experience in managing expectations for and communicating with Senior Executives and Clients
• 6+ years of experience in managing and coaching managers and senior technologists to deliver global, scalable solutions swiftly and with high quality
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, work, or military experience

Experience that would be great to have:

• Payments or broader financial services industry background
• Familiarity with designing and delivering scalable, event-driven architectures that are cloud (AWS) native
• Familiarity with cloud-based data warehouses (Snowflake, specially) and Cloud native BI reporting (Sigma, specifically)
• First-hand experience with driving the adoption of AI and Agentic dev tools and processes to build high-performance software development teams.

Important information about this role:

• This role is on-site Monday through Friday. Fiserv considers in-person collaboration to be an essential part of this role as in-person office experiences help you with your overall onboarding experience and leads to stronger productivity.

• You must currently possess valid and unrestricted U.S. work authorization to be considered for this role. Individuals with temporary visas including, but not limited to, F-1 (OPT, CPT, STEM), H-1B, H-2, or TN, or any candidate requiring sponsorship, now or in the future, will not be considered for this role.

• This is a full-time, direct-hire position, and no contract options for unsolicited agency submissions will be considered.

• All offers of employment are contingent on standard background checks. Fiserv and certain of its affiliated companies are federal, state, and/or local government contractors. Should this position support a Federal Government contract, now or in the future, the successful candidate will be subject to a background check conducted by the U.S. Government to determine eligibility