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.
Ready to take your career global?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.
What you’ll own
- Own and accelerate the enterprise Golden Path program by evolving the established ecosystem, contributor community, and operating model into a mature, enterprise-scale capability, driving governance, adoption, lifecycle management, standards, and continuous improvement across Application and Infrastructure-as-Code Golden Paths. Ensuring alignment with enterprise technology, cloud, and engineering strategies.
- Drive enterprise-wide adoption of Golden Paths through technical leadership, engineering communities, architecture reviews, demonstrations, workshops, and internal communications that promote standardization, automation, and engineering best practices.
- Serve as the technical evangelist and subject matter expert for Golden Paths, influencing engineering organizations through thought leadership, executive presentations, technical guidance, and cross-functional collaboration to drive enterprise-wide adoption and engineering consistency. Championing the use of Golden Paths as the preferred method for delivering secure, resilient, and production-ready solutions, reducing developer cognitive load, accelerating onboarding
- Lead the next phase of the Golden Path program by evolving the existing ecosystem, contributor community, and governance model into a scalable enterprise capability through defined ownership, quality standards, lifecycle management, documentation, testing, publishing processes, and long-term stewardship.
- Partner across Enterprise Architecture, Security Architecture, Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Risk & Compliance, and Software Engineering to align Golden Paths with enterprise standards, pre-approved architectural patterns, Authority-to-Operate (ATO) requirements, and Secure-by-Design principles while enabling engineering teams to innovate within established guardrails.
- Serve as the technical product owner - establishing prioritization, success metrics, adoption goals, contribution standards, and continuous improvement plans based on developer feedback, platform evolution, and organizational needs.
- Ensure Development of and maintenance of production-ready reference implementations that embed security, compliance, operational excellence, observability, resilience, automation, and architectural standards by default while reducing implementation complexity and developer cognitive load.
- Identify, prioritize, and define new Golden Paths by partnering with Engineering, Infrastructure, Product, Security, and Enterprise Architecture to translate business, technical, regulatory, and operational requirements into reusable, production-ready engineering patterns.
- Cultivate and grow the existing Golden Paths community, strengthening contribution models, engineering standards, quality gates, review processes, and governance while mentoring contributors and fostering broader participation across the organization.
- Create comprehensive enablement resources, including documentation, implementation guides, tutorials, training materials, onboarding experiences, self-service assets, and knowledge repositories that enable consistent adoption across engineering organizations.
- Measure, communicate, and continuously improve the effectiveness of the Golden Path program through adoption metrics, developer feedback, engineering productivity indicators, reuse metrics, and business outcomes, identifying opportunities to expand the library and increase enterprise value.
What you’ll bring
- Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, IT or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, cloud engineering or related technical disciplines, with demonstrated success delivering enterprise-scale technology solutions.
- Proven experience designing and implementing reusable engineering frameworks, reference architectures, platform capabilities, or developer platforms that improve engineering productivity and standardization.
- Experience working across multiple engineering organizations and influencing technical direction without direct authority, building consensus among architects, engineering leaders, platform teams, and developers.
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles, software design patterns, security-by-design, governance, risk management, and compliance within large-scale enterprise environments.
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex business, technical, and regulatory requirements into practical, scalable engineering solutions and reusable standards.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present technical concepts effectively to engineers, architects, senior leadership, and executive stakeholders.
- Self-motivated and highly collaborative with the ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on technical execution in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Demonstrated success coordinating work across multiple teams with competing priorities, driving alignment, resolving dependencies, and ensuring successful delivery without direct management authority.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills with experience building trusted partnerships across technical and business organizations while balancing strategic objectives with engineering needs.
- Proven ability to influence technical decisions, negotiate priorities, build consensus, and navigate organizational complexity across diverse engineering organizations.
- Excellent facilitation, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with executives, architects, engineering leaders, product managers, and software engineers.
- Experience driving organizational change, technical adoption, developer enablement, and engineering transformation through communication, education, and community engagement.
- Ability to identify organizational risks, remove delivery impediments, coordinate decision-making, and drive initiatives from concept through enterprise adoption.
- Demonstrated ability to build and sustain collaborative engineering communities that promote knowledge sharing, reuse, continuous improvement, and 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.
Our inclusive and global teams win together every day. We’re proud to have the best minds in the industry, who you can learn from as you grow your career. The people, the energy, the connections – it’s unmatched. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.
What makes a Globalpayer?Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative – always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.
Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.
Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Globalpayer. Apply now to take your career global.
Our perks - what we’ll bring for youWe know it’s bigger than just your career. It’s your life, and your world. That’s why we offer global benefits and programs to support you at every stage. Here’s a taste of what you can expect.
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
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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).
Diversity and EEO Statements
Global Payments is an organization that stands against racism, intolerance and injustice in all its forms — one that respects, honors and celebrates the diversity of our team members and the differences among us. Our commitment to fostering a company culture that values and respects Inclusion and Diversity is steadfast. Standing together as one company, we will continue to work to drive positive change for the communities in which we live and work and stamp out injustice.
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Skills Required
- Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale software, platform, infrastructure, or cloud engineering solutions
- Designing and implementing reusable engineering frameworks, developer platforms, reference architectures, or standards
- Ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams and stakeholder groups
- Deep understanding of enterprise architecture, secure-by-design principles, governance, risk management, and compliance
- Exceptional communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience leading developer enablement, organizational change, or engineering transformation initiatives
- Experience building and sustaining engineering communities that encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing
- Experience defining and measuring engineering productivity, adoption, reuse, or platform success metrics
Global Payments Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Global Payments and has not been reviewed or approved by Global Payments.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage includes medical, dental, vision, and employee assistance programs, and is commonly regarded as a strong component of the total package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs feature a company 401(k) match and an employee stock purchase plan, which are positioned as meaningful parts of overall rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid holidays, PTO, and parental/family‑friendly policies are part of the offering, contributing to perceived overall value even when cash pay is seen as average.
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What We Do
Global Payments (NYSE: GPN) is a Fortune 500 payments technology company, delivering the leading complete worldwide commerce ecosystem. Our unique, connected infrastructure unifies every aspect of commerce, from issuer solutions to payments, and the innovative software that delivers seamless customer experiences. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we’re a worldwide team of over 24,000 people—including local experts on the ground in nearly 40 countries. Together, we support thousands of businesses across more than 100 industries. Empowering commerce for everyone.
