About this role
Job Description
At FIS, our technology and our people are moving forward. We advance the way the world pays, banks and invests. We believe in building inclusive, diverse teams. Together, we innovate to help our colleagues, clients and communities succeed. If you're ready to grow your career and make an impact in fintech, we have one question: Are you FIS?
About the Role
You will shape the technical direction for mission-critical DevSecOps and Developer Experience platform capabilities across the enterprise. You will define how internal developer platforms, security automation pipelines, and self-service toolchains transform engineering velocity and software delivery quality. As a recognized software engineering expert, you will guide cross-functional teams through undefined technical challenges and establish standards for platform engineering, supply chain security, and developer productivity at scale. Success means delivering precedent-setting solutions, influencing engineering strategy, and enabling 5,000+ engineers to ship faster and more securely.
What You Will Be Doing
- Define the enterprise architecture and technical strategy for DevSecOps and Developer Experience platform capabilities.
- Establish reference architectures for internal developer portals, CI/CD pipelines, policy-as-code frameworks, and self-service developer toolchains.
- Guide mission-critical design decisions involving security, scalability, reliability, and platform interoperability.
- Establish rigorous controls for evaluating, testing, monitoring, and governing security automation and developer platform services.
- Optimize complex platform architectures to support changing compliance requirements and enterprise-scale adoption.
- Advise engineering, product, and security teams on high-impact technical decisions involving developer productivity and secure software delivery.
- Lead investigation and resolution of the organization's most complex platform, pipeline, and security integration challenges.
- Coach senior engineers and technical leads on platform engineering, security automation, and engineering excellence.
- Influence long-term roadmaps, development practices, and technology investments across the developer experience and DevSecOps domains.
What You Will Need
- Master-level expertise in platform engineering, developer tooling, and enterprise software architecture.
- Advanced proficiency with TypeScript, Python, or comparable languages used for building developer platforms and automation pipelines.
- Demonstrated success shaping technical strategy for large-scale, long-term platform engineering initiatives.
- Deep experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Harness CD), cloud-native infrastructure, container orchestration, API design, and production reliability.
- Proven ability to establish engineering standards and influence decisions across organizational boundaries.
- Expertise in supply chain security, policy-as-code, secrets management, vulnerability management, and software lifecycle governance.
Added Bonus If You Have
- Recognized expertise in Internal Developer Portal design and implementation (Backstage or comparable platforms).
- Experience defining enterprise patterns for SAST/DAST, SCA, and security pipeline integration at scale.
- Experience establishing developer productivity measurement frameworks and DORA/SPACE metric programs.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted code security scanning or agentic DevSecOps tooling.
- Advanced degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical discipline.
What We Offer you
At FIS, you can grow your career as far as you want to take it. Here’s what else we offer:
- Opportunities to make an impact in fintech
- Personal and professional learning
- Inclusive, diverse work environment
- Resources to give back to your community
- Competitive salary and benefits
Privacy Statement
FIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice .
EEOC Statement
FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here
For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Sourcing Model
Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.
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