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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Development Manager - Cambridge - **Company:** WorldPay - **Location:** Cambridge, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £50,998.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Portfolio Management, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Payment Gateway, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, Technical Debt - **Published:** September 16, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5885933257 ## About the Role * Knowledge of Worldpay and GlobalPayments products, services, payment gateway capabilities and customer-facing technology platforms. * Knowledge of application development, software engineering, architecture, quality engineering, production support and client delivery practices. * Knowledge of regulated technology environments, including PCI, security, risk, audit, compliance evidence and operational control obligations. * Knowledge of cloud, platform and DevOps engineering principles, including CI/CD, automation, observability, infrastructure as code and modern deployment practices. * Skill in project management, organisation, communication, analysis, stakeholder engagement and people leadership. * Skill in leading, supervising and managing effectively under pressure across complex, high-availability technology environments. * Skill in translating client, product and operational requirements into clear engineering priorities and delivery plans. * Ability to interact confidently with executive-level clients, senior internal stakeholders, suppliers and technology leaders. * Ability to analyse client and business needs and determine the related application, platform and information services support required. * Ability to maintain positive working relationships with clients, product partners, engineering teams and operational stakeholders. * Ability to manage multiple projects, delivery priorities, dependencies, risks and problem areas concurrently. * Ability to delegate work to qualified managers, supervisors, engineers, analysts and delivery leads as appropriate. * Ability to lead, direct and manage effectively across matrixed, distributed and cross-functional teams. * Ability to operate independently while maintaining appropriate governance, communication and escalation. * Ability to demonstrate sound decision-making and problem-solving skills in complex delivery and operational situations. * Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing., * Typically requires nine or more years of experience in software development, application delivery, technology operations or platform engineering. * Typically requires seven or more years of management or supervisory experience. * Experience managing application development teams delivering complex, business-critical or high-volume technology services. ## Description Are you ready to unleash your full potential? We're looking for people who are passionate about payments to chart GlobalPayments' path to being the largest and most-loved payments company in the world. What you'll be doing * Plans and manages application development and client delivery activities for an assigned WPG application portfolio, including components of large-scale, complex payment gateway platforms. * Leads teams responsible for designing, developing, testing, implementing and supporting software product applications and proprietary internal technology services. * Manages the full software development lifecycle, including planning, design, delivery, testing, implementation, release readiness, production support and audit obligations. * Oversees product design, technical analysis, bug verification, beta support and continuous improvement activity across assigned applications and services. * Resolves critical delivery, quality and operational issues, acting as an escalation point for complex engineering and client delivery matters. * Manages the work efforts of managers, supervisors, engineers, analysts and associated delivery resources, including hiring, performance management, pay review input, coaching and development. * Identifies, plans and allocates technical resources, including software engineers, programmers, business analysts, quality engineers and purchased resources, to meet portfolio and client delivery priorities. * Forecasts resource needs based on portfolio demand, product roadmap commitments, projected client spend, operational priorities and platform modernisation activity. * Maximises effective utilisation, delivery throughput and value from assigned teams while maintaining quality, resilience and sustainable engineering practices. * Ensures base applications, payment gateway services and supporting platforms meet appropriate quality, security, resilience and operational readiness standards. * Adheres to departmental application development, software delivery, client delivery, change management and operational governance process standards. * Provides input to product managers and technology leaders on product direction, delivery feasibility, engineering risk, technical debt and platform capability. * Coordinates with industry compliance consultants, product managers, security, risk, audit and operational teams to verify that applications meet regulatory and compliance requirements. * Ensures the proper application of technology, engineering standards, architecture principles, cloud practices and development methods across assigned teams. * Contributes to business unit and technology area development through leadership of people, methods, delivery improvements, platform simplification and operational excellence. * Other related duties assigned as needed., * Experience managing managers, supervisors or senior technical leads, with responsibility for performance, capability, resource planning and delivery outcomes. * Experience working in payments, financial technology, regulated technology or other high-availability environments is desirable. * Senior-level management role working under the general direction of middle or executive-level technology management. * Manages and mentors teams of software development managers, supervisors, engineers, programmer analysts and associated delivery resources. * Participates in the corporate development of methods, projects, programmes, operating practices and people capability. * Controls decisions across a broad application development and client delivery function. * Serves as a project leader, escalation point and subject matter expert for application development, delivery planning, engineering execution and operational readiness. * Provides input into strategic direction for WPG application development, platform capability, engineering methods and delivery improvement. * In some instances, this manager may have subordinate managers or supervisors. About the team The WPG engineering team designs, builds and runs high-volume payment gateway capabilities that support GlobalPayments' customer-facing products and services. The team works across application development, platform engineering, product, service management, security, risk and compliance to deliver resilient, scalable and well-controlled software for business-critical payment processing. 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