Principal Infrastructure Engineer - Golden Paths

• Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale software, platform, infrastructure, or cloud engineering solutions, with a track record of driving meaningful technology transformation and business outcomes.
• Demonstrated success designing and implementing reusable engineering frameworks, developer platforms, reference architectures, or standards that increase productivity, consistency, and scalability.
• Strong ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams and stakeholder groups, building alignment and driving adoption without relying on direct authority.
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture, secure-by-design principles, governance, risk management, compliance, and modern engineering practices within complex enterprise environments.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear recommendations for engineers, architects, and executive leaders.

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• Lead the enterprise evolution of the Golden Path program, driving adoption, governance, and continuous improvement to create a scalable engineering ecosystem that accelerates delivery, improves consistency, and increases business value across the organization.
• Influence engineering standards and strategic technology decisions by serving as the trusted subject matter expert for Golden Paths, enabling teams to adopt secure, resilient, and production-ready solutions that reduce complexity and improve developer productivity.
• Shape enterprise-wide engineering outcomes through collaboration with architecture, security, platform, infrastructure, and software engineering teams, ensuring Golden Paths align with business objectives, compliance requirements, and long-term technology strategies.
• Own the success and growth of the Golden Path portfolio, establishing priorities, success metrics, lifecycle management practices, and adoption goals that drive measurable improvements in engineering efficiency, quality, and reuse.
• Build and cultivate a thriving contributor community, strengthening governance, knowledge sharing, and participation while enabling teams to innovate within established guardrails and continuously raise the standard of engineering excellence.

• Experience leading developer enablement, organizational change, or engineering transformation initiatives that increased adoption of standards, platforms, or best practices.
• Proven success building and sustaining engineering communities that encourage collaboration, knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, and innovation.
• Experience defining and measuring engineering productivity, adoption, reuse, or platform success metrics to drive continuous improvement and demonstrate business value.

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A competitive salary and benefits package that recognizes your contribution

Opportunities to grow your skills and build your career within a global business

Access to learning, development and on-the-job experiences that expand your expertise

A supportive, inclusive team environment where your ideas and input matter

Time to give back through community and charity initiatives

A global employee assistance programme to support your wellbeing

Recognition through a global platform that celebrates your achievements

Applicant must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future; We will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Principal Infrastructure Engineer - Golden Paths to join our ever-evolving Infrastructure Architecture team and help shape the future of global commerce. In this role, you’ll play a critical part in transforming how engineering teams build, deploy, and scale secure, resilient, and production-ready solutions across the enterprise. By driving the evolution and adoption of Golden Paths, you will simplify development experiences, accelerate innovation, improve engineering consistency, and enable teams to deliver high-quality outcomes faster and with greater confidence. Working across architecture, security, platform engineering, and software development teams, you’ll influence enterprise-wide technology direction, strengthen engineering excellence, and help advance Global Payments' mission to deliver trusted, scalable payment solutions that power commerce around the world.