Principal Digital Cloud Engineer - Jobs for Humanity

Company Description

Jobs for Humanity is collaborating with FIS Global to build an inclusive and just employment ecosystem. We support individuals coming from all walks of life.

Company Name: FIS Global

Job Description

Position Type :

Full time

Type Of Hire :

Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)

Education Desired :

Bachelor of Science

Travel Percentage :

10 - 15%

Job Description

We are FIS. Our technology powers the world’s economy and our teams bring innovation to life. We champion diversity to deliver the best products and solutions for our colleagues, clients and communities. If you’re ready to start learning, growing and making an impact with a career in fintech, we’d like to know: Are you FIS?

About the role:

Reporting to the Head of Digital Development Enablement, the Principal Cloud Engineer will play a critical role in driving innovation and growth for the Banking Solutions business. In a leadership role in the Digital Technology organization, you will be responsible for transforming our platforms and driving the movement of the next generation of digital platforms to the public cloud.  With a focus on digital software and cloud technologies, you will collaborate closely with product leaders, and other stakeholders to align product milestones and deliver innovative digital applications and experiences. In this role, the candidate will have the opportunity to make a lasting impact on the company's digital transformation journey, drive customer-centric innovation, and position the organization as a leader in the competitive digital banking landscape.

What you will be doing:

• Partnering closely with the broader Digital Engineering organization, and Banking product organization to deliver roadmaps and plans to introduce public cloud technologies into their platforms. 

• Delivering high-quality and high-performance technology solutions to our clients and customers for all-product areas in the Digital Solutions business. 

• Keeping up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies in the digital mobile space, bringing innovative ideas and best practices to drive continuous improvement. 

• Owns the design, execution, rollout, and evangelism of the cloud operating model. 

• Plan and coordinate reviews and approval of technical deliverables. 

• Continuously improve patterns, practices, and operational efficiency within the team. 

• Conduct assessments, build blueprints and roadmaps, build proofs of concept, and write technical points of view. 

• Analyze current technology utilized within the company and develop steps and processes to improve and expand upon them. 

• Establish milestones for necessary contributions from departments and develop processes to facilitate their collaboration. 

• Assist other department engineers in creating practical demonstrations of proposed solutions and demonstrating them to other team members. 

• Provide detailed specifications for proposed solutions including materials, workforce and time necessary. 

• Provide clear goals for all areas of a project and develop steps to oversee their timely execution. 

• Work closely with engineering professionals within the company to maintain hardware and software needed for projects to be completed efficiently. 

• Mentor and train other engineers throughout the company and seek to continually improve processes companywide. 

• Work alongside digital delivery teams to successfully monitor progress and implementation of initiatives. 

What you will need:

• Extensive public cloud experience within (AWS or Azure) 

• Experience with containerization technologies, Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, etc 

• Experience with serverless Technolgies and use cases, Fargate, Lambda, Functions, etc 

• Knowledge of Akamai, WebSphere, Tomcat, JBoss, Kafka, ESB, IIS 

• Experience with SaaS, PaaS and IaaS environments 

• Ability to analyze how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. 

• Extensive experience with migration of legacy platform technologies and datacenters to public cloud. 

• Extensive experience with migration of legacy database technologies to cloud native technologies and execution of those plans. 

• Experience developing engineering applications for a large corporation. 

• Demonstrated project development and leadership skills. 

• Current understanding of best practices regarding system security measures 

• Preferred degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or similar relevant field preferred 

• Deep understanding and commitment to software engineering principles and processes (e.g., Lean, Agile, DevOps) and continuous improvement through measurement. 

• Deep understanding of security and compliance for managing data, ideally in a regulated industry. 

• Excellent communicator, highly innovative with a low ego, capable of motivating and energizing direct reports and peers, with a proven ability to create a highly collaborative working environment. 

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