Director of Engineering – Payments

EUROCLEAR UK & INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

Director of Engineering leading technology strategy for UK Payments at ClearBank. Collaborating closely with Product teams to evolve capabilities and meet client needs.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

42% of our senior management roles are held by women
Our enhanced family leave policies
Launching our partnership with Code First Girls
Increasing awareness of neurodiversity in the workplace through our partnership with the Inclusive Group

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Hard Skills & Tools

technology strategypayments engineeringplatform integrationscalabilitysecurityoperational readinessarchitectural decisionscomplex platformshigh throughput environmentregulatory compliance

Soft Skills

leadershipcoachingcommunicationstakeholder managementteam developmentstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingcollaborationownershipdelivery focus