DevOps Team Lead - Development Platform

Overview

In this role you will lead a cross-location DevOps team to advance CI/CD modernization and improve infrastructure reliability within a Java/Springboot development environment. You will combine people management with hands-on expertise to architect build systems, pipelines, and tooling, enabling faster, secure software delivery. You’ll collaborate with leadership to execute roadmaps and drive platform adoption across the department. This position offers a chance to shape a scalable, observable development platform in a global payments context.

Pay / Benefits

• market-competitive compensation
• inclusive benefits
• training and education support
• career progression pathways
• employee recognition programs
• focus on financial wellbeing and health & wellness

Responsibilities

• Line management of a cross-location team
• Developing people, performance and skill growth
• Optimizing team ways of working and fostering collaboration
• Designing CI/CD solutions for Java/Springboot stack
• Driving observability and adoption of software development technologies
• Maintaining and evolving the development environment for efficiency
• Collaborating with operations on tech adoption in higher environments
• Owning and improving build pipelines and Jenkins cluster
• Coordinating with tech leadership and peers on priorities and roadmaps
• Translating work into phased, actionable plans and roadmaps

Key requirements

• Experience managing senior individual contributors across locations
• Proven track record onboarding and adapting to new technologies
• Strong ownership mindset with problem-solving capabilities
• Experience building/packaging JVM-based projects with security compliance
• Hands-on Jenkins experience: shared libraries, declarative/scripted pipelines, Job DSL
• Proficient in GitLab code hosting and CI/CD practices
• Experience with containers and container orchestration systems
• Experience with IaC and cloud computing
• Experience with an observability stack

• ownership mindset
• problem-solving
• cross-functional collaboration
• Jenkins
• ArgoCD
• AWS/Kubernetes