Ready to take your career global? Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We're looking for a Director, FX Engineering to join our ever-evolving Money Movement Technology team and help shape the future of global commerce.
About The Team
Our inclusive and global teams win together every day. We're proud to have the best minds in the industry, who you can learn from as you grow your career. The people, the energy, the connections - it's unmatched. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.
What you'll own
- 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.
What you'll bring
- 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.
It's a bonus if you have
- Experience within FX trading, treasury systems, multi-currency settlement, cross-border payments, or merchant acquiring.
- Experience managing large-scale public cloud environments and cloud migration programmes.
- Experience implementing infrastructure-as-code, automation frameworks, observability tools, and modern platform engineering practices.
- Knowledge of data platforms, analytics, machine learning, or real-time processing technologies.
- Experience working in SAFe or scaled Agile environments.
- Cloud certifications or experience with AWS and other enterprise cloud platforms.
What makes a Globalpayer?
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.
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