Director of Engineering – Payments

Job Responsibilities

• Own the technology strategy for UK Payments, ensuring alignment with ClearBank’s wider platform and technology strategy.
• Partner with the Head of Product for UK to define and evolve a clear, credible roadmap covering near‑term delivery and longer‑term technical direction.
• Provide domain leadership and technical challenge, supporting informed decisions on build, buy, and partner options as the capability matures.
• Provide senior oversight of an existing UK Payments engineering teams, ensuring delivery remains on track as the products evolve and new products are introduced.
• Ensure strong engineering fundamentals, including resilience, scalability, security, and operational readiness, appropriate for a regulated bank.
• Support the evolution of a highly utilised set of capabilities as they scale to meet future client needs.
• Guide architectural decisions for payments capabilities while maintaining ClearBank standards.
• Define the technical direction of travel for payments, including how the platform could evolve to support additional capabilities and ease of further expansion.
• Ensure payments services integrate effectively with ClearBank’s other services.
• Lead and develop engineers and engineering managers within the UK Payments domain.
• Set clear expectations, provide coaching, and build a culture of ownership, learning, and delivery.
• Contribute to the wider Director community, strengthening domain specialism while maintaining consistency across the technology organisation.
• Work closely with Risk, Compliance, and Legal teams to ensure UK Payments capabilities operate within applicable regulatory frameworks.
• Communicate clearly with senior stakeholders on progress, risks, and trade‑offs in a complex and evolving domain.
• Ensure appropriate controls, documentation, and operational processes are in place as the product scales.

Requirements

• Senior technology leadership experience (Director or equivalent) within payments, financial services, or adjacent regulated domains.
• Demonstrable experience owning and evolving complex platforms, preferably in a high throughput environment.
• Strong domain understanding of payments, sufficient to develop strategy and challenge technical decisions (deep blockchain specialism is not required).
• Proven ability to partner effectively with Product leadership to shape and deliver long‑term strategy.
• Experience integrating with third‑party schemes and platforms.
• Exposure to regulatory environments for payments.
• Experience scaling teams and platforms as product maturity and customer adoption increase.

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