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About the Role
Define and deliver the engineering strategy, technology roadmap, and platform vision supporting Global Payments' FX, multi-currency, and settlement capabilities. Lead the design, development, modernization, and operation of highly scalable FX platforms that support some of the world's largest global ecommerce merchants and marketplaces.
Responsibilities
- Define and deliver the engineering strategy, technology roadmap, and platform vision supporting Global Payments' FX, multi-currency, and settlement capabilities.
- Lead the design, development, modernization, and operation of highly scalable FX platforms that support some of the world's largest global ecommerce merchants and marketplaces.
- Build and inspire high-performing engineering teams, creating a culture of innovation, accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Drive the evolution of FX infrastructure, ensuring platforms are resilient, secure, performant, compliant, and capable of supporting future business growth.
- Partner with Product, Commercial, Operations, Treasury, Risk, and Finance teams to translate business strategy into engineering solutions and technical roadmaps.
- Lead engineering delivery across cloud and on-premise environments, driving automation, observability, operational excellence, and platform reliability.
- Establish governance, release management, production readiness, and engineering best practices across the FX technology landscape.
- Evaluate build, buy, and partner opportunities to accelerate innovation and deliver best-in-class FX capabilities.
- Drive platform modernization initiatives, leveraging cloud-native technologies, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and DevOps practices to improve scalability and efficiency.
- Own engineering metrics, platform health, capacity planning, cost management, and service performance to ensure high-quality outcomes for clients and internal stakeholders.
- Build strong partnerships across the wider engineering organisation, ensuring seamless integration between FX, Payments, Billing, Funding, and Reporting platforms.
- Represent FX Engineering within senior leadership forums and contribute to the long-term technology strategy of Global Payments.
Requirements
- Significant engineering leadership experience within financial services, payments, fintech, banking, ecommerce, or foreign exchange environments.
- Strong understanding of large-scale distributed systems, cloud platforms, API-driven architecture, and enterprise technology delivery.
- Experience leading engineering teams responsible for mission-critical customer-facing platforms and services.
- Deep knowledge of software engineering, platform operations, release management, production support, and operational excellence practices.
- Strong commercial awareness with the ability to balance technical investment, platform scalability, business priorities, and operational costs.
- Experience working within Agile, DevOps, and modern software delivery environments.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence executive leaders, engineering teams, and business partners.
- Strong problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to simplify complex technical challenges and drive effective solutions.
- Experience building and developing engineering talent, creating high-performing teams and leadership pipelines.
- Ability to define technology roadmaps and translate strategy into measurable engineering outcomes.
Skills
- FX trading
- Treasury systems
- Multi-currency settlement
- Cross-border payments
- Merchant acquiring
- Large-scale public cloud environments
- Cloud migration programmes
- Infrastructure-as-code
- Automation frameworks
- Observability tools
- Modern platform engineering practices
- Data platforms
- Analytics
- Machine learning
- Real-time processing technologies
- SAFe
- Scaled Agile environments
- AWS
- Enterprise cloud platforms
Experience Level
- Director
About the Company
- Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team.
- We're curious and innovative – always finding better ways to deliver impact.
- We empower each other to make decisions, and it's our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.