Technology Director

Job Summary Responsibilities

• Manage a team of engineering managers and engineering leads
• Focus on delivering commitments aligned to enterprise strategic priorities
• Build support for strategies with business and technology leaders
• Guide development of actionable roadmaps and plans
• Identify opportunities and strategies for continuous improvement of software engineering practices
• Provide oversight to software craftsmanship, security, availability, resilience, and scalability of solutions developed by the teams or third party providers
• Identify financial management and strategic resourcing
• Set risk management guidelines and partner with stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives
• Develop strategies for hiring engineering talent
• Lead implementation of projects and encourage engineering innovation
• Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including more experienced managers
• Lead team to achieve objectives
• Interface with external agencies, regulatory bodies or industry forums
• Manage allocation of people and financial resources for Technology Strategic Leadership
• Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy

Technology Strategy & Platform Leadership

• Define and execute the long-term technology strategy and roadmap for Payments and Liquidity platforms.
• Drive modernization toward cloud-enabled, API-first, and event-driven architectures built on modern engineering principles.
• Establish architecture standards, engineering governance, and platform modernization objectives aligned with business priorities.
• Lead technology investment planning, prioritization, and execution across multiple strategic initiatives.

Payments & Liquidity Transformation

• Lead large-scale transformation initiatives across US Domestic and Cross-Border Payments, Liquidity, Payment Data, Settlement, and Servicing platforms.
• Drive modernization of payment processing capabilities supporting Wires, ACH, RTP, Zelle, Cards, SWIFT, and ISO 20022.
• Champion adoption of modern technologies including microservices, event-driven architecture, cloud platforms, platform engineering, and AI-assisted software delivery.
• Ensure platforms support evolving business needs, regulatory requirements, resiliency goals, and future product expansion.

Business & Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with senior leaders across Product, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Finance, and Technology organizations to align technology strategy with business objectives.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to leadership on technology direction, investment priorities, modernization opportunities, and transformation strategy.
• Communicate complex technology strategies to executive audiences while translating business priorities into actionable delivery roadmaps.
• Influence enterprise architecture standards and technology decisions across Payments and Liquidity technology organizations.

Engineering Excellence & Delivery

• Lead execution of complex technology programs with accountability for delivery quality, platform stability, risk management, and business outcomes.
• Establish best practices for software engineering, architecture, resiliency, observability, security, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Drive adoption of modern software delivery practices including CI/CD, DevSecOps, automation, cloud engineering, and AI-enabled development tools.
• Ensure solutions meet stringent performance, availability, scalability, resiliency, and regulatory standards for 24x7 payment ecosystems.

Organizational & People Leadership

• Build, develop, and lead high-performing engineering and technology teams across multiple product and platform areas.
• Mentor engineering leaders, architects, and senior technologists while fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Drive workforce strategy, leadership development, succession planning, and talent growth.
• Manage technology investments, vendor partnerships, and resource allocation to support strategic objectives.

Risk, Control & Regulatory Leadership

• Ensure technology platforms meet regulatory, audit, cybersecurity, and operational risk requirements.
• Partner with risk and compliance organizations to proactively identify and mitigate technology risks.
• Establish governance frameworks and controls supporting highly regulated payments and liquidity environments.
• Ensure adherence to industry standards and regulations impacting domestic and cross-border payments.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of Technology Strategic Leadership experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 4+ years of management or leadership experience

Desired Qualifications

• 5+ years of management or leadership experience.
• 10+ years of experience supporting Payments, Liquidity, Banking, or Financial Services technology organizations.
• Deep expertise in US Domestic Payments and Cross-Border Payments, including Wires, ACH, RTP, Zelle, SWIFT, Cards, and ISO 20022.
• 5+ years of experience leading modernization programs involving cloud platforms, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, APIs, and data-intensive applications.
• 5+ years of experience delivering large-scale technology transformation initiatives and complex enterprise programs.
• Strong technical foundation across Java, Kafka, MongoDB, Microservices, APIs, Cloud Technologies, Platform Engineering, and DevSecOps practices.

Job Expectations

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule.
• Partner closely with global teams across business, operations, risk, compliance, and technology organizations.
• Lead strategic transformation initiatives that advance Payments and Liquidity modernization, resiliency, and business growth objective