Senior Modernization Lead

About Payoneer
Founded in 2005, Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world's underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We're a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 countries and territories.

By taking the complexity out of the financial workflows–including everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence–we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.

Senior Modernization Lead

Israel

Hybrid

Full-time

We're looking for a strategic, tech and execution-driven Senior Modernization Lead to lead and orchestrate our end-to-end platform modernization efforts. In this role, you'll shape the big-picture roadmap, coordinate cross-platform initiatives, and ensure timely, aligned delivery across both technical and business domains.

You'll work closely with engineering, architecture, product, and leadership teams to drive end-to-end modernization, manage risks and interdependencies, and ensure visibility and alignment at all levels.

What You'll Do

• Lead and manage the full modernization program roadmap, aligning technical and business objectives
• Coordinate cross-platform dependencies and sequencing, ensuring efficient execution across teams
• Partner with Architecture to align initiatives with tech strategy and platform principles
• Own and maintain the architectural decision log, guidelines, and modernization best practices
• Ensure all modernization tracks align with the long-term platform vision and architectural frameworks
• Prepare executive-ready updates, progress narratives, and risk assessments for key stakeholders
• Act as the central point of contact for modernization communication and cross-org coordination
• Proactively identify risks, blockers, and areas for improvement in execution or alignment

Who You Are

• 7+ years in program and project management roles, ideally in tech/platform environments
• Proven experience managing large-scale, cross-functional initiatives
• Proven ability to translate high-level architectural direction into actionable program roadmaps
• Experience working with or managing programs related to tech stack modernization, e.g., monolith-to-microservices, cloud migration, or legacy system deprecation
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills — comfortable working across levels and both business and technical layers
• Strategic mindset, with hands-on ability to drive execution and resolve ambiguity

Advantage

• Experience working with architectural frameworks and standards, and facilitating adoption across distributed teams
• Exposure to technologies such as Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), GraphQL/REST APIs, and event streaming (Kafka, etc.)

The Payoneer Ways of Working
Act as our customer's partner on the inside
Learning what they need and creating what will help them go further.
Do it. Own it.
Being fearlessly accountable in everything we do.
Continuously improve
Always striving for a higher standard than our last.
Build Each Other Up
Helping each other grow, as professionals and people.
If this sounds like a business, a community, and a mission you want to be part of, apply today.

We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace. Payoneer is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment no matter your race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require reasonable accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, please speak to the recruiter managing the role for any adjustments. Decisions about requests for reasonable accommodation are made on a case-by-case basis.