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Lead Software Engineer(ACI MTS Payments Product Consultant)

Pyramid Consulting, Inc.
Charlotte, NC Contractor
POSTED ON 4/24/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/24/2026

Immediate need for a talented Lead Software Engineer(ACI MTS Payments Product Consultant). This is a 12 Months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is in Charlotte NC (Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job Diva ID: 26-12918

Pay Range: $55 - $65/hr . Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities :

  • Lead the design and development of highquality software solutions aligned with enterprise architecture, nonfunctional requirements, and modern engineering best practices.
  • Collaborate closely with architects, senior engineers, and product partners to support modernization initiatives, including cloud readiness, API design, data strategy, and application migration.
  • Serve as a technical lead during crossteam initiatives providing guidance on design, integration, performance, and deployment.
  • Troubleshoot complex technical issues, identify root causes, and help drive resolution of development, build, or deployment blockers.
  • Participate actively in coding, peer reviews, design discussions, and technical decisionmaking.
  • Ensure solutions meet security, scalability, performance, and reliability standards.
  • Contribute to automation initiatives, CI/CD improvements, DevOps practices, and test automation.
  • Support testing phases such as system testing, UAT, and performance validation.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

  • Key skills: Java, Spring, Kafka, ACI Payments Stack.
  • 6 years of software engineering experience (or equivalent via work experience, training, military, or education).
  • 6 years of handson development experience in a technical engineering role.
  • 3 years in ACI payments application suite, ACI MTS, UPF & APSF
  • Experience in providing technical leadership or mentoring within a team
  • Experience with payments systems such as ACH and/or Wires.
  • Hands-on experience with ACI UPF (Universal Payments Framework) including:
  • Endpoint, Gateway, and Bank Adapter configurations
  • Message routing rules and processing rule setup
  • Cartridge deployment and lifecycle management
  • UPF Control Center operations (monitoring, auditing, alerting)
  • Security configurations, including SBP (Security Best Practices), crypto policies, and keystore/truststore management
  • Experience with UPF 5.x message flows, logging, troubleshooting, and ISO 20022 message orchestration
  • Experience with ACSF/APSF configurations, WebSphere deployments, and automation (Jython/Python, Unix shell scripting).
  • Experience with ACI MTS, including Entia setup, routing rules, remote records, and line configurations.
  • Strong understanding of global payment rails (FED, CHIPS, CHAPS, TARGET, SWIFT).
  • Exposure to ISO 20022 implementations.
  • Solid experience with Microservices, J2EE, middleware, transaction management, security, connection pooling, messaging, and performance tuning.
  • Experience conducting NFR testing including RTO/RPO validation.
  • Experience collaborating across distributed/virtual teams.
  • Strong analytical and problemsolving skills, with high attention to detail.
  • 4 years with JMS, 4 years with Kafka/Confluent, and 3 years with Oracle.
  • Experience with secure DevOps, cloud deployment automation, and test automation.

Our client is a leading IT industry , and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration .

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