Solutions Engineer Lead

Position: Payments Solutions Engineer Lead
Why USAA?

At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the choice for the military community and their families.

Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values - honesty, integrity, loyalty and service - define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

We are proud to support active-duty military spouses. USAA roles may offer remote or hybrid flexibility for active-duty military spouses consistent with applicable policy and business needs.

The Opportunity

As a dedicated Payments Solution Engineer lead, you will be responsible for architecting, integrating, and modernizing enterprise payment platforms supporting insurance, treasury, procurement, and financial operations. This role owns the end-to-end payment lifecycle, including claims disbursements, premium collections, billing payments, treasury cash movements, vendor payments, settlement, reconciliation, exception management, and regulatory reporting.

The ideal candidate combines deep payments expertise with strong solution architecture and engineering skills to deliver secure, scalable, resilient, and compliant payment solutions within a highly regulated financial services environment.

We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in one of the following locations:
San Antonio, TX, Plano, TX, Phoenix, AZ, Colorado Springs, CO, Charlotte, NC, or Tampa, FL. Relocation assistance is available for this position.

What you'll do:

• Payment Modernization & Architecture
• Lead solution architecture for enterprise payment capabilities across insurance, treasury, billing, and procurement domains.
• Design end-to-end payment processes, including initiation, approval, routing, execution, settlement, reconciliation, and reporting.
• Define future-state payment architectures that improve automation, resiliency, operational efficiency, and straight-through processing.
• Evaluate and recommend payment hubs, orchestration platforms, treasury solutions, and banking integration strategies.
• Platform Engineering & Delivery
• Configure and support SAP payment and treasury platforms, including SAP FS-CD/FI-CA, Advanced Payment Management (APM), and Treasury & Risk Management (TRM).
• Design high-volume payment processing, collections, cash application, settlement, and exception management solutions.
• Develop APIs, integrations, reporting solutions, and SAP enhancements supporting payment operations.
• Lead solution design workshops, testing, implementation activities, and production support for critical payment services.
• Bank & Payment Network Integration
• Design and manage integrations with banks, payment processors, clearinghouses, and payment networks, including ACH, Wire, SWIFT, RTP, and Fed Now.
• Implement payment file transmission, real-time payment processing, bank statement ingestion, and automated reconciliation capabilities.
• Support API-driven and event-based architectures leveraging Kafka, middleware, and cloud-native integration services.
• Agile / SAFe Delivery & Execution
• Partner with Product Management, Product Owners, Solution Architects, and Agile Release Trains (ARTs) to define and deliver payment modernization initiatives.
• Decompose large payment modernization initiatives into Epics and features, capabilities, enablers, and technical stories that can be executed across multiple Agile teams.
• Provide architecture guidance and technical leadership to development teams throughout the Agile delivery lifecycle.
• Identify and manage technical dependencies, risks, and architectural constraints across multiple teams, vendors, and platforms.
• Drive alignment between business objectives, solution architecture, and execution plans to ensure successful delivery of payment capabilities.
• Support estimation, release planning, capacity planning, and roadmap development for payment-related initiatives.
• Participate in architecture runway planning and technical enablement activities to support future business capabilities and platform modernization.
• Ensure solution designs adhere to enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, resiliency objectives, and operational support expectations.
• Track delivery outcomes and continuously improve delivery efficiency, quality, reliability, and time-to-market
• Facilitate cross-team coordination and architectural decision-making across business, engineering, infrastructure, and vendor teams.
• Contribute to Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) discussions by providing technical assessments, sequencing recommendations, and modernization roadmaps.
• Partner with Release Train Engineers (RTEs), Product Managers, and Delivery Managers to remove impediments and accelerate delivery.
• Drive adoption of Dev Sec Ops , CI/CD, test automation, observability, and operational readiness practices across payment platforms.
• Ensure non-functional…