Director, Integration Architecture & Engineering (Payments)

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & People Management

• Build, lead, coach, and mentor a globally distributed team of integration specialists and system analysts.
• Establish strong engineering culture, accountability, and ownership across design, development, and delivery.
• Drive capability uplift, reducing reliance on vendors and strengthening in-house expertise.
• Provide thought leadership and strategic direction for integration architecture across the payments landscape.

Integration Strategy, Architecture & Governance

• Define and own the target-state integration architecture for OBPM within the enterprise payments ecosystem.
• Establish standards, patterns, and governance frameworks across API, event-driven, file-based, and hybrid integrations.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, regulatory requirements, and security standards.
• Drive modernization of legacy integrations, reducing complexity and enabling scalable, future-proof designs.

Techno-Functional Leadership

• Translate complex business requirements into scalable and robust technical solutions.
• Act as a senior bridge across business, architecture, engineering, and vendors, ensuring alignment and execution integrity.
• Provide design authority and governance through architecture reviews, solution sign-offs, and risk assessments.

Engineering Oversight & Delivery Excellence

• Oversee end-to-end integration delivery, ensuring quality across design, build, testing, and deployment.
• Drive adoption of best practices in engineering, testing, and DevOps, including automation and production-equivalent testing.
• Lead code merge, release strategy, and phased/staggered rollout approaches to reduce delivery risk.
• Ensure robust error handling, resiliency, and observability across all integration flows.

Data, Documentation & Design Standards

• Enforce high standards in data modeling, integration documentation, and interface specifications.
• Ensure clarity, consistency, and reusability across artifacts (ISDs, sequence diagrams, data mappings).
• Establish end-to-end traceability and governance across systems and integrations.

Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Engage senior stakeholders across IT, Operations, Business, and Head Office to drive alignment and decisions.
• Influence vendors and internal teams to adopt target-state architecture and best practices.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to executive audiences, including risk, trade-offs, and impact analysis.

Requirements

Experience & Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 12–18+ years of experience in integration architecture, solution design, and engineering leadership within enterprise environments.
• Proven experience in leading distributed teams and managing large-scale, complex delivery programs.

Payments & Platform Expertise

• Strong experience with payments platforms, preferably Oracle Banking Payments (OBPM/OBPay).
• Deep understanding of payments processing, clearing, settlement, exception handling, and regulatory landscapes.
• Experience delivering in high-availability, mission-critical financial systems.