The world of payment processing is rapidly evolving and businesses are looking for loyal and strategic partners to help them grow. Meet Nuvei Nuvei is the global fintech building the infrastructure for every payment everywhere. Its modular flexible and scalable technology enables leading companies to accept next-generation payments offer all payout options and benefit from card issuing banking risk and fraud management services. Connecting businesses to their customers in more than 200 markets with local acquiring in 52 markets 150 currencies and over 720 alternative payment methods Nuvei provides the technology and insights for customers and partners to succeed locally and globally through one integration. At Nuvei we live our core values and we thrive on solving complex problems. We’re dedicated to continually improving our product and providing relentless customer service. We are always looking for exceptional talent to join us on the journey! The SVP Head of Agentic Engineering and Acceleration will lead the company s global transformation toward agentic software engineering and establish agentic development as a core enterprise capability. This executive will build and lead a specialized global engineering organization responsible for delivering production-grade software through agentic capabilities establishing the company-wide Agentic Delivery Lifecycle (ADLC) and accelerating adoption across the broader product and technology organization. The organization will begin with approximately 10 to 15 highly skilled engineers architects platform specialists and agentic-development leaders and grow into a larger global engineering body as demand and demonstrated value increase. The team will operate as an agentic-native engineering organization. Approved agents skills workflows and automated platforms will be used across the software lifecycle conventional manually intensive development will not be its standard delivery model. Engineers will direct orchestrate supervise validate and improve autonomous and semi-autonomous agents rather than primarily code through traditional methods. The team will also serve as the proving ground for the company s future engineering model establishing the platforms controls practices talent model and reusable capabilities required to scale agentic-native development globally. The successful candidate will combine leadership of large distributed technology organizations with deep expertise in software engineering generative AI agentic systems platforms security and transformation. The role will collaborate closely with Product Engineering Enterprise Architecture Platform Engineering Information Security Data Risk Compliance Finance and business AI leadership. It will support but not own the AI-powered product portfolio or AI adoption within nontechnology business functions. Key Responsibilities 1. Agentic Strategy and Global Adoption • Define and execute the multiyear strategy and roadmap for agentic product and engineering across the company s global technology organization. • Establish adoption objectives by engineering function product domain geography technology stack and maturity moving teams from controlled experimentation to governed production use and agentic-first practices. • Partner with global product and engineering leaders to embed agentic capabilities into delivery models processes organizational structures and accountabilities. • Identify and remove technical organizational cultural talent process and governance barriers to adoption. • Establish executive governance and reporting covering adoption investment delivery outcomes risk cost and realized business value. 2. Agentic-Native Engineering Organization • Build and lead an initial team of approximately 10 to 15 engineers architects platform specialists and agentic-development leaders scaling it into a larger global engineering organization as value and demand grow. • Operate the team through an agentic-native model in which approved agents and workflows perform software design development testing documentation deployment monitoring maintenance and modernization. • Ensure engineers primarily direct orchestrate supervise validate and optimize agents rather than rely on conventional manual software-development practices. • Deliver high-priority enterprise software reusable components platform capabilities and modernization initiatives through this model. • Establish engagement prioritization delivery talent and leadership models and codify successful practices into reusable standards playbooks architectures agents skills and accelerators. 3. Agentic Delivery Lifecycle • Own the design implementation governance and continuous evolution of the company-wide ADLC. • Embed agentic capabilities throughout requirements architecture coding review testing security validation documentation release deployment production operations incident response and modernization. • Define reusable patterns control gates certification production-readiness standards and risk-based requirements for human supervision validation approval and intervention. • Integrate the ADLC with enterprise source-code management CI/CD testing security observability change-management and production-operations platforms. • Establish versioning auditability rollback monitoring incident-management and lifecycle controls without compromising quality resilience maintainability security or regulatory compliance. 4. Agentic Platforms and Developer Experience • Define the requirements and target architecture for enterprise-grade agentic development and execution platforms partnering with Platform Engineering Enterprise Architecture Security and engineering leaders on implementation. • Lead adoption and integration of approved technologies such as OpenAI Codex Anthropic Claude Code GitHub Copilot and comparable capabilities. • Provide secure reliable self-service access to approved models tools execution environments enterprise data repositories APIs golden paths and reusable platform services. • Define requirements for model routing context and memory identity secrets privileged access auditability observability availability scalability and disaster recovery prevent fragmented tooling and ungoverned deployments. 5. Agents Skills and MCP Ecosystem • Lead development of reusable enterprise agents specialized skills workflows orchestration capabilities and Model Context Protocol (MCP) services. • Establish an enterprise registry and standards for approved agents skills prompts tools MCP servers context memory delegation testing versioning ownership and retirement. • Develop secure MCP servers and comparable integrations connecting models with enterprise applications engineering platforms data environments operational tools and core fintech APIs. • Establish certification access and reuse requirements that promote interoperability while preventing duplication inconsistent practices and uncontrolled agent proliferation. 6. Engineering Adoption and Transformation • Establish an acceleration capability that works directly with product and engineering organizations to identify and implement high-value agentic use cases. • Deploy embedded engineers into priority domains and lead lighthouse implementations that demonstrate value transfer knowledge and create sustainable local capability. • Develop training technical academies certifications communities of practice engineering forums and a global network of agentic engineering champions. • Partner with engineering management to redefine roles skills team structures workflows career paths and capacity assumptions as adoption matures. • Create implementation playbooks and change programs that support responsible experimentation build confidence address resistance and sustain adoption across cultures and geographies. 7. Governance Security and Production Assurance • Establish governance for ownership approval production access operation monitoring and retirement of agents and agentic engineering capabilities. • Implement controls addressing data leakage hallucination prompt injection insecure code generation model misuse unauthorized tool execution intellectual-property exposure and excessive autonomy. • Ensure production agents and agent-generated software have accountable owners appropriate testing audit trails monitoring rollback capabilities and incident-management processes. • Partner with Information Security Legal Privacy Risk Compliance and Internal Audit to meet regulatory and responsible-AI requirements including clear exception escalation remediation and risk-acceptance processes. 8. Value Realization and Cost Management • Define baselines targets dashboards and executive reporting for productivity cycle time release frequency quality defect leakage change-failure rate reliability modernization velocity and developer experience. • Measure adoption and performance by team geography domain workflow and maturity and compare the agentic-native organization with conventional delivery approaches. • Establish transparency and controls for token model licensing infrastructure and platform costs optimize routing context caching prompts and platform utilization. • Remediate consolidate or retire underperforming and high-risk use cases translating productivity gains into greater capacity faster delivery improved outcomes and reduced cost. Requirements • Significant executive experience leading global software engineering AI engineering developer platform engineering transformation or comparable technology organizations. • Demonstrated success building and leading high-performing teams across countries cultures time zones and technology environments. • Proven experience driving enterprise-scale adoption of new engineering technologies development methods operating models and organizational practices. • Demonstrated experience designing building or scaling enterprise generative-AI or agentic-AI platforms and production capabilities. • Deep understanding of modern software engineering cloud platforms developer experience CI/CD automated testing source-code management observability security and production operations. • Strong knowledge of large language models agent orchestration tool calling retrieval-augmented generation context and memory management model routing human oversight MCP servers model gateways and enterprise APIs. • Practical experience with agentic development technologies such as OpenAI Codex Anthropic Claude Code GitHub Copilot or comparable platforms. • Strong understanding of AI security data protection identity and access management secrets management model governance intellectual-property protection and responsible-AI controls. • Experience managing major technology investments vendors and global transformation programs payments fintech financial services or another highly regulated environment is strongly preferred. • Strong executive communication and influencing skills. Bachelor s degree in computer science engineering information systems or a related discipline or equivalent experience an advanced degree is preferred. Leadership Expectations • A transformational global leader who converts an ambitious vision into disciplined execution and measurable outcomes. • Technically credible from executive strategy through detailed engineering architecture platform security and control decisions. • An organizational builder who attracts specialized talent develops leaders and creates clarity and accountability across distributed teams. • Pragmatic data-driven and commercially minded balancing velocity with quality security resilience compliance and cost. • An influential change leader who challenges traditional practices builds confidence manages resistance and sustains adoption across cultures and geographies. Measures of Success Success in this role will be measured by • Establishment and enterprise adoption of a governed Agentic Delivery Lifecycle and approved agentic engineering platforms. • Formation and effective operation of the initial 10-to-15-person agentic-native team followed by disciplined growth into a larger global capability. • Delivery of secure reliable production-grade software through an agentic-native delivery model that does not rely on traditional manual development as its standard approach. • Measurable improvement in delivery speed quality reliability modernization velocity engineering capacity developer experience and cost compared with conventional methods. • Progression of engineering teams from experimentation to repeatable governed production-scale adoption. • Adoption and reuse of certified agents skills MCP servers workflows platforms and engineering accelerators with reduced duplication and manual activity. • Effective management of agentic risk and model token platform licensing infrastructure and operating costs with demonstrated business value. Benefits Competitive holiday allowance 401K Matching program Group Insurance Benefits Flexible working model Employee Assistance Program Nuvei is an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates collaboration and innovation and is committed to developing a diverse and inclusive workplace. The team at Nuvei is comprised of a wealth of talent skill and ambition. We believe that employees are happiest when they’re empowered to be their true authentic selves. So please come as you are. We can’t wait to meet you. Working Language English (written and spoken) is the language used most of the time as work colleagues clients and strategic suppliers are geographically dispersed. Our recruitment process may use automated tools including AI to support application management and candidate shortlisting.