Senior Distinguished Engineer

At Early Warning, we've powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle , Paze , and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

Overall Purpose

The Senior Distinguished Engineer - Cloud Services is the company's foremost technical authority for enterprise cloud services and cloud-native platform capabilities. This leader is responsible for defining the strategy, architecture, engineering standards, and long-term technical direction for the managed services that application teams consume across the enterprise. Unlike traditional infrastructure engineering roles, this position focuses on the services built on top of the cloud foundation-not the underlying cloud infrastructure itself.

The role drives simplification, standardization, automation, and self-service while enabling engineering teams to build secure, resilient, and scalable applications with minimal operational overhead. This individual partners closely with Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, Security, Platform Engineering, Architecture, and Product Engineering to ensure cloud services are delivered as reusable enterprise capabilities. This position functions as a strategic individual contributor expected to solve enterprise-wide engineering problems in a fast-paced and collaborative environment.

Essential Functions:

• Serves as a recognized senior technical individual contributor supporting our most demanding, cross-functional projects across the pillar. A visionary leader, builder, and an operator.
• Drives best practices, architectures, and technology decisions inside the tech function (as applicable) and the organization
• Define the long-term technical vision for enterprise cloud services.
• Establish the cloud services roadmap aligned with business priorities.
• Evaluate emerging cloud capabilities and determine enterprise adoption strategies.
• Create service standards that balance developer experience, security, operational excellence, and cost.
• Provide technical leadership and strategic direction for the enterprise cloud services portfolio, including data, integration, platform, networking, security, observability, AI/ML, storage, and developer enablement services.
• Define and evolve enterprise reference architectures, engineering standards, and design patterns for cloud services.
• Drive standardization, rationalization, and adoption of enterprise cloud services to reduce complexity and maximize reuse across the organization.
• Lead the design of highly available, resilient, secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud service platforms.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code, automation, and platform engineering practices to simplify provisioning, lifecycle management, and operations.
• Develop reusable cloud service modules, reference implementations, and engineering patterns that accelerate solution delivery.
• Partner with application engineering teams to improve developer experience through self-service capabilities, standardized service offerings, golden paths, templates, SDKs, and technical guidance.
• Establish operational excellence standards for cloud services, including reliability, observability, performance, capacity planning, disaster recovery, incident reduction, and automated operations.
• Drive continuous improvement of cloud platforms through automation, operational telemetry, resilience engineering, and cost optimization.
• Establish enterprise governance for cloud services by defining technical standards, evaluating new technologies, approving service patterns, and rationalizing overlapping capabilities.
• Influence enterprise technology strategy and architecture decisions while balancing innovation, operational excellence, security, and long-term sustainability.
• Serve as the organization's highest-level technical authority for enterprise cloud services, providing mentorship, architectural guidance, and cross-functional technical leadership.

• Consults and collaborates closely with Engineering leaders, Architecture, Security, and potentially external collaboration partners (FIs) that may be engaged with us on key efforts over the years.
• Keeps executive-level leaders informed of progress and problems. Balances technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices. Makes recommendations at a critical level.
• Complies with all security policies and procedures, to ensure that the highest level of system and data confidentiality, integrity and…