clearbank - Director of Engineering - Payments
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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. • Leadership & Behaviours • Pragmatic and outcome‑focused, with sound judgement to balance speed, risk, and long‑term value. • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and guiding teams through an evolving domain. • Clear communicator who can explain complex concepts to both technical and non‑technical audiences. • Role‑model for ClearBank’s expectations around ownership, delivery, and collaboration.
Responsibilities
• Strategic Leadership • 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. • Delivery & Execution • 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. • Technology & Architecture • 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. • People & Leadership • 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. • Risk, Regulation & Stakeholder Management • 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. • Shape [data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAYAAAAfFcSJAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAARnQU1BAACxjwv8YQUAAAAJcEhZcwAADsMAAA7DAcdvqGQAAAANSURBVBhXY2BgYGAAAAAFAAGKM+MAAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC]
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