Director, Technology (Omaha, NE)

• →Lead, develop, and retain engineering teams responsible for payment authorization and fraud systems.
• →Provide leadership oversight for BASE24, PRM, and connected systems, ensuring strong availability, resiliency, recoverability, security, performance, and production support.
• →Define and execute a modernization roadmap that reduces platform risk, improves agility, and creates a sustainable path from legacy processing toward modern, modular capabilities.
• →Drive modern engineering practices, including API-first and event-driven design, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, infrastructure automation, secure coding, and cloud-native patterns where appropriate.
• →Partner with Product, Operations, Risk, Fraud, Information Security, Architecture, and other Technology leaders.
• →Serve as a senior technical leader and escalation point for complex payment-processing incidents, architectural decisions, capacity concerns, vendor issues, and cross-system dependencies.
• →Manage strategic vendors and third-party integrations, including performance, contractual commitments, lifecycle planning, and alignment to FNBO architecture and security standards.

• Significant experience with payments, banking, card processing, financial transactions, or another high-volume, high-availability transaction-processing domain.
• Strong technical depth across distributed systems and modern architectures, including RESTful APIs, microservices, event streaming, container platforms, modern data integration patterns, and public cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
• Experience designing, delivering, or migrating enterprise workloads on AWS, with an understanding of cloud architecture, security, networking, resiliency, observability, automation, and cost management.
• Experience leading agile teams with a focus on continuous delivery and continuous improvement
• Strong communication and influence skills, with the ability to align across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience managing vendors and integrating third-party platforms
• Strong financial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, and prioritization

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience leading and managing engineering teams
• 7+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, platform engineering, architecture, or technology delivery.
• Experience supporting production systems with stringent availability, security, performance, and recovery requirements.

• Experience with ACI BASE24, BASE24-eps, ACI Proactive Risk Manager (PRM), or comparable payment switching, authorization, or fraud-management platforms.
• Knowledge of card-payment ecosystems and transaction flows, including card authorizations
• Experience leading modernization programs.
• Financial services experience in a regulated banking environment.

This role may have a specific starting pay within this range.

Final compensation offer to candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon work experience, education, and/or skill level.

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