Director of Engineering - Payments

The role

The Director of Engineering – UK Payments provides senior technology leadership for UK-focused payments capabilities. This person will own the technical strategy, delivery oversight, and evolution of the domain while leading established engineering teams.

What you will do

• Own the technology strategy for UK Payments.
• Partner with the Head of Product for UK to define and evolve the roadmap.
• Provide domain leadership and technical challenge for build, buy, and partner options.
• Provide senior oversight of existing UK Payments engineering teams.
• Ensure engineering fundamentals like resilience, scalability, security, and operational readiness.
• Guide architectural decisions for payments capabilities.
• Define the technical direction of travel for payments.
• Ensure payments services integrate with other ClearBank services.
• Lead and develop engineers and engineering managers.
• Work with Risk, Compliance, and Legal teams to ensure regulatory compliance.

Required qualifications

• Senior technology leadership experience (Director or equivalent) within payments, financial services, or adjacent regulated domains.
• Demonstrable experience owning and evolving complex platforms.
• Strong domain understanding of payments.
• Proven ability to partner effectively with Product leadership to shape and deliver long-term strategy.

Nice to have

• 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.

Benefits

• Enhanced family leave policies

Before you apply

• A member of the talent acquisition team will review your application against key requirements.
• The process includes a recruiter screening, a first interview, a second competency-based interview, and a final meeting with the Head of Department.

About the company

ClearBank is a company that embraces modern technology and a collaborative culture with no hierarchy or egos. They value different perspectives and aim to build a happy, diverse workforce.