Technical Lead

Bottomline Technologies

Team Lead Payments Team

Role Overview

The Team Lead for the Payments Engineering team is responsible for leading the development, stability, and evolution of the TreasuryXpress Payment Hub. This position combines strong technical capabilities, deep payments-domain knowledge, and leadership skills to ensure secure, compliant, and scalable payment processing across the application.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Execution

- Lead design and development of payment components including creation, validation, enrichment, workflow, export, sanctions screening, and bank connectivity.

- Oversee XML/ISO20022/MT/MX and CBPR+ payment transformations.

- Ensure proper functioning of the rules engine for validation, enrichment, and workflow.

- Drive improvements in resiliency and performance for payment pipelines.

- Collaborate with architects to align the payments domain with modern cloud-native patterns.

Team Management & Coaching

- Lead, mentor, and support a team of engineers.

- Conduct 1:1s, performance assessments, and career development.

- Foster ownership, accountability, and engineering excellence within the team.

Delivery Ownership

- Manage sprints, backlog, planning, grooming, and delivery.

- Partner with Product Management to translate business needs into actionable tasks.

- Ensure on-time delivery aligned with TX quarterly release cadence.

Quality & Compliance

- Ensure compliance with Sanctions Screening, CBPR+, and audit obligations.

- Ensure automated testing coverage and strong QA collaboration.

- Support penetration testing and security assessments.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Work with DevOps on deployments, monitoring, and environment health.

- Support Implementation and Support teams on high-priority client issues.

- Partner with QA, Product, Architecture, Support, and DevOps.

Production Stability & Incident Response

- Act as escalation point for payment-related incidents.

- Ensure effective communication with support teams.

- Conduct post-incident reviews.