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Myhrhome

VP/D Principal Engineer - Credit Cards

Irving, TX · Vp

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About the role

  • The Principal Engineer will serve as the technical leader for the Credit Card Technology organization, defining and driving the long-term architecture strategy across customer acquisition, existing customer servicing, collections, payments, and third-party integrations.
  • This role requires a seasoned technology leader who can influence engineering teams across the organization, establish engineering standards, and design scalable, secure, cloud-native solutions that support business growth and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Partner closely with the Enterprise Architecture team to align Credit Card technology initiatives with the organization's enterprise architecture standards, target-state architecture, and strategic technology roadmap.
  • Lead architecture across customer acquisition, existing customer servicing, payments, collections, and third-party/vendor integrations.
  • Design scalable, secure, cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS, microservices, event-driven architecture, and modern integration patterns.
  • Drive API strategy using GraphQL and REST to enable seamless integration across digital channels and partner ecosystems.
  • Establish architectural standards, design principles, and engineering best practices across multiple delivery teams.
  • Lead root cause analysis, operational reviews, and remediation planning for critical production issues.
  • Drive modernization initiatives to reduce technical debt and improve system resilience, performance, and maintainability.
  • Collaborate with Product, Business, Infrastructure, Security, Risk, and Enterprise Architecture teams to deliver strategic initiatives aligned with business objectives.
  • Strong experience building applications using TypeScript, Node.js, and modern web frameworks such as React or Angular.
  • Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Domain-Driven Design

Requirements

  • 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience designing enterprise-scale distributed systems.
  • Proven experience leading architecture for customer-facing financial services platforms, preferably credit card or lending systems.
  • Deep expertise in designing microservices and event-driven architectures.
  • Strong experience with AWS cloud services and cloud-native design patterns.
  • Extensive experience with GraphQL and REST API design and governance.
  • Expertise in CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps practices, infrastructure automation, and deployment strategies.
  • Experience integrating with enterprise vendors such as credit bureaus, payment processors, fraud platforms, authentication providers, or collections systems.
  • Strong understanding of application security, scalability, reliability, observability, and performance engineering.
  • Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams.

Nice to have

  • Experience in Credit Card, Consumer Lending, Banking, or Financial Services.
  • Experience with event streaming platforms such as Kafka or EventBridge.
  • Experience with enterprise integration patterns and API management.
  • Familiarity with PCI DSS and financial regulatory requirements.
  • Experience driving cloud modernization and legacy transformation initiatives.
  • Leadership Expectations
  • Acts as the technical authority for the Credit Card Technology organization.
  • Influences engineering teams without direct authority.

Skills

  • Cloud: AWS
  • Architecture: Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Domain-Driven Design
  • Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js
  • Frontend: React, Angular
  • API Technologies: GraphQL, REST
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps (or equivalent)
  • Observability: OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, Splunk, Datadog (or similar)
  • Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS
  • Top Skills
  • AWS Cloud Architecture
  • Microservices & Distributed Systems
  • GraphQL & API Architecture

Compensation

  • Paid holidays (7 days per year, based on start date)
  • Paid volunteer time (3 days per year, prorated based on start date)

Benefits

  • Health and wellbeing options including medical, prescription, dental, vision, hearing, accident, hospital indemnity, and life insurances
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (10% share discount)
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Paid time off (15 days' vacation per year, plus 2 personal days, prorated based on start date)
  • Paid sick leave as determined by state or local ordinance, prorated based on start date
  • Define and drive the architectural vision and long-term technology roadmap for the Credit Card platform.
  • Mentor senior engineers and architects, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous learning.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship status, color, creed, culture, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information

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