Director Software Development at Fiserv
Alpharetta, GA
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Jul 22, 2026
Alpharetta, GA
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A director-level engineering leadership role overseeing teams responsible for digital onboarding, customer decisioning, and personalization platforms. The position spans backend engineering, data pipelines, machine learning, and MLOps, with accountability for architecture strategy, cloud-native development on AWS, and AI-assisted delivery practices. Suited to a seasoned technical leader with 12+ years of enterprise software experience who can manage large, cross-functional teams while staying close to technology decisions.
Principal level · 12+ years · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584).
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The job title is 'Director Software Development' with no seniority level word in the title, hence advertised seniority is Unspecified. However, the role manages 15+ direct reports across engineering, data, and ML teams with full org-wide technology strategy ownership — this scope maps to Principal on the seniority ladder.
The 12+ years requirement is stated jointly for Java and Python ('12+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise software solutions using Java and Python'); the years demanded is set to 12 on both skills accordingly.
The posting explicitly excludes a long list of US states (Colorado, California, DC, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Maine, Washington). No specific city or metro is named, so CBSA is left blank.
A Bachelor's degree is listed in the required section but the JD immediately qualifies it with 'or equivalent industry experience', so the degree requirement is set to None.
ECS and EKS are listed together as 'ECS/EKS' in the requirements; they are treated as interchangeable alternatives for this requirement.
Generative AI, LLMs (via 'LLM-powered applications'), and RAG architectures appear only under the 'Experience That Would Be Great to Have' section and are marked preferred.
Event-driven architectures and distributed systems are mentioned in the required section but name no specific technology or tool, so they are omitted per the generic-concept rule.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
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