Lead Software Engineer in Toronto

Lead Software Engineer in Toronto

Toronto Full-Time 121500 - 148500 $ / year (est.) On-site
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At a Glance

  • Tasks: Lead transformative payment projects and modernize financial services.
  • Company: Dynamic financial services firm focused on innovation.
  • Benefits: Attractive salary, comprehensive health benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.
  • Other info: Collaborative environment with a focus on innovation and career advancement.
  • Why this job: Shape the future of payments and drive impactful change in the industry.
  • Qualifications: 8-15 years in payments with strong leadership and communication skills.

The predicted salary is between 121500 - 148500 $ per year.

Job Requirements

Primary Must-Have Skills

  • Experience & Domain Expertise: 8–15+ years in payments, banking, or financial services consulting with significant payments domain expertise.
  • Program Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead payments modernization, transformation, operating model, or platform rationalization programs.
  • Functional Knowledge: Strong understanding of payment products, processing, operations, and the end-to-end payment lifecycle.
  • Data Architecture: Hands-on experience with payments data, including metadata, business dictionaries, data lineage, data domains, and business/technical mapping.
  • Strategic Modeling: Ability to design coherent target-state models that connect business capabilities, processes, platforms, and underlying data.
  • Soft Skills & Management: Strong executive communication, workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, and experience leading consulting teams and workstreams.

Secondary Good-to-Have Skills

  • Standards & Models: Experience with ISO 20022, canonical payment models, and payment data transformation.
  • Payment Rails: Specific knowledge of ACH/EFT, wires, SWIFT, RTP/FedNow, cards, and cross-border payments.
  • Governance Tools: Familiarity with enterprise data governance or catalog platforms.
  • Innovation: Experience defining AI-enabled payment operations and data-driven payment capabilities.
  • Industry Context: Prior experience with major bank transformation or payments modernization programs.

Work Experience: 5-7 Years

Lead Software Engineer in Toronto employer: Virtusa

Kinetica is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture, where your expertise in data modeling and analytics will be valued and utilized to drive impactful solutions. Located in a vibrant tech hub, Kinetica offers competitive benefits, opportunities for professional growth, and the chance to work with cutting-edge technology in an Agile environment, making it an ideal place for those seeking meaningful and rewarding employment.

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Contact Details:

Virtusa Recruitment Team

We think you need these skills to ace Lead Software Engineer in Toronto

Payments Domain Expertise
Program Leadership
Payment Products Knowledge
End-to-End Payment Lifecycle Understanding
Payments Data Architecture
Data Lineage
Business/Technical Mapping