Advisor, Software Development

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Job Title

Advisor, Software Development

What does a great “Technical Engineering Advisor” do?

A great Technical Engineering Advisor provides technical and people leadership for teams building scalable, secure, and reliable backend services for modern banking platforms. This role translates business objectives into technical strategy, leads architecture and delivery across distributed systems, and establishes strong engineering practices.

The Technical Engineering Advisor works closely with product, architecture, DevOps, SRE, and engineering teams to deliver Java-based microservices and event-driven solutions. The role also focuses on developing engineering talent through coaching, mentoring, structured technical reviews, and capability-building initiatives.

What you will do:

·       Lead and manage a team of backend engineers responsible for designing, developing, and supporting critical banking platform services.

·       Provide technical direction for Java, Spring Boot, and Quarkus-based microservices.

·       Translate business requirements and product objectives into scalable technical architecture and delivery plans.

·       Drive architecture and design decisions across distributed backend systems.

·       Define event-driven architecture patterns using Kafka, including idempotency, retries, dead-letter queues, backpressure, and error handling.

·       Own integration strategies across REST and gRPC interfaces for internal and external systems.

·       Guide database design, data modelling, performance optimisation, and migration strategies for PostgreSQL-compatible databases.

·       Establish engineering standards for coding, testing, observability, security, documentation, and production readiness.

·       Lead architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews, and technical governance forums.

·       Partner with DevOps and SRE teams to strengthen CI/CD, containerisation, infrastructure automation, and OpenShift or Kubernetes operations.

·       Improve platform reliability by reducing production incidents and mean time to recovery.

·       Build effective monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting practices across services.

·       Own technical delivery, identify engineering risks, and ensure timely resolution of technical dependencies and blockers.

·       Mentor engineering leads and individual contributors through regular coaching and technical development plans.

·       Support workforce planning, hiring, onboarding, performance development, and succession planning for the engineering team.

·       Promote reusable engineering patterns and automation to improve delivery speed, consistency, and quality.

·       Collaborate with product, business, architecture, security, and operations stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle.

·       Lead incident troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and continuous reliability improvement.

What you will need to have:

·       Minimum 14 years of experience in software engineering, including significant experience in technical leadership and engineering team management.

·       Strong hands-on technical foundation in Java and Spring Boot-based microservices.

·       Proven experience designing and delivering distributed, scalable, and production-grade backend systems.

·       Strong knowledge of microservices architecture, domain-driven design, API design, and system integration.

·       Hands-on expertise in Kafka and resilient event-driven architecture patterns.

·       Strong experience designing and integrating REST APIs.

·       Deep understanding of SQL, relational database design, performance tuning, and schema migration.

·       Experience with PostgreSQL or other PostgreSQL-compatible databases.

·       Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.

·       Experience establishing CI/CD, automated testing, observability, secure coding, and production-readiness standards.

·       Strong understanding of unit, integration, API, contract, regression, and behavioural testing strategies.

·       Demonstrated ability to lead architecture discussions and make technical decisions across multiple systems or engineering teams.

·       Proven experience mentoring engineers, developing technical leaders, and building high-performing teams.

·       Strong stakeholder-management skills with the ability to communicate technical decisions, risks, and trade-offs to business and technology leaders.

·       Experience managing engineering delivery, technical dependencies, production risks, and incident resolution.

·       Ability to balance people management, technical leadership, architecture, and delivery responsibilities.

What would be great to have:

·       Experience with Quarkus and Apache Camel.

·       Practical exposure to gRPC-based service communication.

·       Experience within banking, payments, financial services, or another regulated industry.

·       Knowledge of distributed SQL platforms and advanced database migration practices.

·       Experience with Liquibase or equivalent database migration tools.

·       Experience with quality and security tools such as SonarQube, SpotBugs, PMD, and Fortify.

·       Knowledge of BDD frameworks such as Cucumber and container-based testing using Testcontainers.

·       Experience implementing enterprise-level observability, including metrics, distributed tracing, logging, and alerting.

·       Experience leading large-scale platform modernisation or cloud-native transformation programmes.

·       Understanding of security, compliance, resiliency, and audit requirements within regulated technology environments.

·       Experience managing geographically distributed or cross-functional engineering teams.

Thank you for considering employment with Fiserv.  Please:

• Apply using your legal name
• Complete the step-by-step profile and attach your resume (either is acceptable, both are preferable).

Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

Fiserv is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by law. 

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