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At Finastra, we're a global leader in financial services software, dedicated to expanding access to financial services and shaping what's next for the industry. Our technology powers missioncritical solutions across Lending, Payments and Universal Banking, supporting over 7,000 customers, including 80% of the world's top 50 banks, in more than 110 countries.

What will you contribute?

The Expert ACH Engineer is a senior individual contributor role within the Payments Customer Support organization. This role provides advanced functional and technical support for Finastra Payments platforms, with a primary focus on NACHA (ACH) payments and FGPP (Global Payments Platform).

The role owns complex, highimpact customer issues endtoend, reduces operational risk, contributes to backlog reduction, enables selfservice and case deflection, and improves resolution quality. The engineer operates independently on complex issues, mentors junior engineers, and partners closely with Product, Engineering, and Infrastructure teams across regions.

Key Responsibilities & Deliverables:

Customer & Case Ownership

• Provide expertlevel functional and technical support for Payments platforms, with emphasis on NACHA / ACH processing and FGPP flows

• Own complex and highseverity customer issues across the full support lifecycle, including investigation, resolution, validation, and customer communication

• Act as a senior escalation point for issues impacting customer operations and business continuity.

Payments & Platform Expertise

• Analyze and troubleshoot:

  • NACHA file creation, validation, settlement, returns, and exceptions

  • FGPP payment processing, message flows, routing, and operational controls

• Understand the operational and compliance impact of payments issues and support customers accordingly

Operational Excellence

• Drive improvements in First Contact Resolution (FCR) and Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) through accurate triage and strong root cause analysis

• Identify repeat issues and collaborate with Product and Engineering teams on permanent fixes

• Actively participate in backlog management, prioritizing aged, complex, and highrisk cases.

Knowledge & Deflection Enablement

• Create and maintain highquality Knowledge Articles (KAs) for repeat issues, known errors, and standard operating procedures

• Support selfservice and case deflection initiatives by ensuring knowledge is clear, reusable, and consistently applied

• Provide guidance and mentoring to lesssenior engineers, enabling independent resolution and skill development.

CrossFunctional Collaboration

• Partner with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Release teams to diagnose defects, validate fixes, and support deployments

• Support disaster recovery exercises, upgrades, and change events, including testing and postchange validation

Required Skills & Experience:

SQL / Oracle Database

• Ability to write and interpret SQL queries for troubleshooting and analysis

• Experience working with Oracle databases, including schemas, tables, and audit data

• Ability to analyze transactional data to support root cause analysis

Application & Infrastructure Support

• Experience supporting enterprisescale, transactionintensive production systems

• Working knowledge of Linux / Unix environments (logs, processes, permissions)

• Familiarity with application logs, batch processing, schedulers, and message queues

Integration & Messaging

• Understanding of systemtosystem integrations, APIs, and filebased interfaces

• Experience with messaging or middleware concepts (queues, retries, wait states)

• Ability to trace endtoend transaction flows across multiple internal and external systems

Payments Domain Knowledge

• Strong understanding of ACH, wire payments, and realtime payments (RTP / FedNow)

• Knowledge of payment lifecycles, validations, queues, exceptions, and repair processes

• Familiarity with compliance and risk controls, including OFAC, sanctions, fraud, and regulatory reporting impacts

• Experience supporting environments with multiple thirdparty vendors (OFAC, Fraud, FX, network providers)

Environment & Operations

• Experience supporting regulated production environments with formal incident, problem, and change management processes

• Understanding of release management, disaster recovery testing, and postupgrade validation

• Ability to work within SaaS / PaaS / hybrid hosting models, clearly distinguishing customer versus vendor responsibilities

• Strong RCA skills, with emphasis on durable fixes and reduction of case reopens

Knowledge Management & Automation Readiness

• Ability to create and maintain reusable support knowledge

• Ability to translate technical findings into clear, customerusable documentation

• Willingness to adopt and support AIassisted support tools (guided triage, response suggestions, KA discovery)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise case management tools (e.g., SFDC)

• Exposure to Payments platform DR exercises, upgrades, or change validation

• Familiarity with case deflection analytics, automation, or workflow optimization

We are proud to offer a range of incentives to our employees worldwide. These benefits are available to everyone, regardless of grade, and reflect the values we stand for:

Flexibility: Enjoy unlimited vacation, subject to local regulations and business priorities. Benefit from hybrid working arrangements and inclusive policies such as paid time off for voting, bereavement, and sick leave.

Wellbeing: Access confidential onetoone support through our Employee Assistance Program, connect with our network of Wellbeing Champions and Gather Groups, and take part in monthly events and initiatives designed to help you thrive-inside and outside of work.

Health & Financial Security: Medical, life and disability insurance, retirement plans, lifestyle, and other benefits.*

Sustainability: Paid time off for volunteering and donationmatching opportunities to support causes that matter to you.

Inclusion: Get involved in our inclusion communities, such as Count Me In, Culture@Finastra, Proud@Finastra, Disabilities@Finastra, and Women@Finastra-open to everyone who wants to participate and contribute.

Career Development: Access online learning and accredited courses through our Skills & Career Navigator tool.

Recognition: Take part in our global recognition program, Finastra Celebrates, and share your voice through regular employee surveys that help shape our culture and ways of working.

*Specific benefits may vary by location.

At Finastra, each individual is unique-bringing their own ideas, perspectives, cultural backgrounds, and experiences. We learn from one another, value what makes us different, and create an environment where everyone feels included, supported, and able to be their authentic selves.

Be unique. Be exceptional. Help us make a difference at Finastra.

Applicants for this position need to be located in posted location or their immediate surrounding areas. Due to the requirements of this position, this job posting is not available for, and Finastra will not be considering any applicants who currently reside in New York City or California.