Director Engineering Strategy and Insights

1 month ago

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States FIS Global Full time

Position Type :

Full time

Type Of Hire :

Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)

Education Desired :

Bachelor of Information Systems

Travel Percentage :

10 - 15%

Job Description

Are you ready to unleash your full potential? We're looking for people who are passionate about payments to chart Worldpay's path to being the largest and most-loved payments company in the world.

About the team:

The Director of Engineering Strategy and Insights within the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) is responsible for shaping and communicating the strategic vision for engineering development, driving innovation, and ensuring alignment with the broader organizational investment strategy. This role involves partnering with senior leaders to define and maintain development strategies, enable effective delivery, capture value, and drive governance. The Director will also lead competitive benchmarking and innovation initiatives to maintain the company's technology competitive edge.

What you'll be doing:

1. Strategic Vision & Executive Narration:
- Partner closely with the VP of the OCTO, development leaders, and the Chief Technology Officer to define a comprehensive development strategy prioritizing velocity and innovation.
- Rationalize the development portfolio, ensuring alignment with the broader investment strategy.
- Define, maintain, and communicate a consolidated strategic view of development strategy, initiatives, and outcomes.
- Develop and deliver board and executive content, including strategy narratives, outcomes articulation, and CTO goals.
- Act as the chief delegate for the VP of the OCTO in related matters, performing ad hoc analysis and material creation as needed.

2. Delivery Enablement:
- Maintain integrated modernization roadmaps, aligned with broader product roadmaps.
- Lead outcome-focused trade-off facilitation, providing strategic insights rooted in long-term vision and external benchmarking.

3. Value Capture and Outcome Tracking:
- Review and recommend outcomes and metrics strategies for key development initiatives and processes.
- Partner with Finance to effectively track and report associated benefits.
- Collaborate with Finance in the investment planning process to fund strategic development initiatives, aligning investments with end-state architecture and product vision.
- Partner with M&A on the technical due diligence playbook.

4. Governance:
- Drive effective governance to track outcomes and assess ongoing trade-offs.
- Define, mature, and standardize the development organizational governance model across all lines of business, aligning with enterprise governance.
- Conduct cross-functional monthly operational reviews.
- Drive automation and streamlining across governance forums in partnership with OCTO finance and merchant operations groups.

5. Innovation:
- Lead competitive benchmarking standards and research across development.
- Establish M&A pipelines to accelerate value generation through a "development as a differentiator" focus.
- Enable AI and automation strategy development and competitive benchmarking.
- Drive competitive benchmarking for AI and automation across processes and tools for employees.

What you'll bring:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field; advanced degree preferred
  • Multi-year in fields of technology, strategy and finance required, with experience in a variety of leadership roles
  • Proven track record of defining and implementing strategic initiatives in a technology-driven environment
  • Strong understanding of architecture modernization, agile methodologies, and governance frameworks
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills, with the ability to influence and build relationships at all levels; Strong coaching and mentoring skills
  • Ability to negotiate effectively and deal with highly complex, confidential and sensitive information
  • Ability to work closely with executive management to provide essential information, make recommendations and affect change
  • Willingly shares relevant technical and/or industry knowledge and expertise to other resources
  • Proven project management skills
  • Demonstrated ability to drive innovation and continuous improvement
  • High level of integrity, discretion, and professionalism.

​Bonus if you have:

  • Experience with M&A technical due diligence and integration
  • Proficiency in strategic planning and execution tools
  • Familiarity with AI and automation technologies
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on delivering strategic insights and results

What we offer you

  • A competitive salary and benefits
  • A variety of career development tools, resources and opportunities
  • The chance to work on some of the most challenging, relevant issues in the payment industry
  • Time to support charities and give back in your community

Privacy Statement

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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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