Director of Engineering - Payments

Role Overview The Director of Engineering – UK Payments will provide senior technology leadership for ClearBank’s UK-focused payments capabilities, owning the technical strategy, delivery oversight, and evolution of this domain, providing a highly utilised and relied upon set of capabilities for clients. This role will lead an established set of teams as they evolve payments capabilities to scale and meet developing client needs. The Director will collaborate closely with Product partners to shape the long‑term roadmap, ensure robust technical foundations, and guide ClearBank’s progression in this vital domain. Shape [data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAYAAAAfFcSJAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAARnQU1BAACxjwv8YQUAAAAJcEhZcwAADsMAAA7DAcdvqGQAAAANSURBVBhXY2BgYGAAAAAFAAGKM+MAAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC] Key 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.