Senior Manager, Payment Technology

We are recruiting a Senior Manager of Payment Technology for a large, multi-location consumer organization modernizing its enterprise payment technology. This highly visible leadership role will build the payments function, guide a major processing transformation, and support high-volume transactions across physical locations and digital channels.

Will not sponsor. Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.

This opportunity is ideal for an experienced payments leader who enjoys developing teams, shaping strategy, and creating scalable solutions in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team of payment engineers, architects, analysts, and product owners
• Define the enterprise payments technology strategy, architecture, and roadmap
• Lead payment processor implementations, migrations, and modernization initiatives
• Oversee payment gateways, APIs, transaction services, and third-party integrations
• Support authorization, capture, settlement, refunds, chargebacks, and reconciliation
• Direct POS, payment terminal, card-present, and digital payment capabilities
• Ensure platforms are scalable, resilient, observable, and highly available
• Establish PCI-DSS, tokenization, encryption, monitoring, and incident-response practices
• Manage processors, acquiring banks, gateways, vendors, and implementation partners
• Partner with Security, Finance, Compliance, Operations, and executive leadership

Qualifications

• Approximately 10 years or more of enterprise payments, fintech, or payment-platform experience
• Leadership experience involving payment technology teams or large transformation programs
• Deep knowledge of processors, gateways, acquiring banks, card networks, and settlement
• Experience supporting high-volume, omnichannel payment environments
• Strong understanding of POS technology, digital payments, APIs, and cloud architecture
• Expertise in PCI-DSS, payment security, tokenization, and encryption
• Proven ability to build teams and establish effective operating processes
• Comfortable balancing strategic leadership with detailed technical decision-making
• Effective communicator who can influence technical, business, and executive stakeholders