Head of Core Banking Platform & Tech Strategy

Monex Global; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Monex is seeking a Head of Core Banking Technology in Madrid to lead the end-to-end design, build and deployment of a regulated bank platform. You will own architecture, vendor selection, and regulatory submissions while steering delivery across multiple partners and internal teams.

The role requires extensive hands-on experience in regulated financial services, a proven track record with neo-banks or greenfield platforms, and strong collaboration with regulators.

Formación

• Significant hands-on experience building and operating technology platforms in regulated financial services (banking, payments, e-money, fintech).
• Proven experience launching a neo-bank or greenfield regulated platform.
• Experience selecting and implementing BaaS / core banking platforms and managing delivery partners.

Responsabilidades

• Define the end-state architecture for the new bank platform, including integration patterns, data model, identity, security, environments, and operational tooling.
• Produce the core set of technical standards and reference architecture: API standards, eventing/streaming where needed, encryption/key management, logging/monitoring, SDLC and release controls.
• Make pragmatic build vs buy decisions with a bias towards speed-to-market without compromising regulatory expectations.
• Own the vendor selection process for BaaS and key platform components: requirements definition, RFI/RFP, evaluation, technical due diligence, commercial inputs, and selection recommendations.
• Design and run vendor proofs of concept to validate core capabilities (ledger, payments, onboarding, reporting, controls, resilience, operability).
• Define vendor management approach: SLAs/SLOs, incident and problem management, change governance, security obligations, audit rights and exit planning.
• Regulatory Engagement & Approvals (Technical Lead)
• Act as the technical authority for regulatory engagement: explain design decisions, demonstrate control frameworks, provide evidence of resilience, security, data governance and operating model readiness.
• Co-own with Compliance/Risk the creation of technology components of regulatory submissions: architecture packs, security model, operational resilience artefacts, outsourcing/third-party risk evidence, DR/BCP evidence.
• Ensure the platform design supports required regulatory capabilities: auditability, reporting, reconciliation, safeguarding/segregation where applicable, and clear lines of operational accountability.
• Build, Integrate & Launch Delivery
• Lead hands-on delivery across vendors/SIs/internal stakeholders to implement the selected BaaS platform and surrounding services.
• Own end-to-end integration approach: channels, back office/operations tooling, data pipelines, MI/regulatory reporting, and interfaces to Monex group systems where required.
• Drive a delivery plan that enables rapid launch with controlled scope, and a roadmap to mature capability post go-live
• Security, Risk, Controls & Operational Resilience
• Build security and controls by design: threat modelling, secure architecture, access controls, secrets management, vulnerability management and secure SDLC practices.
• Define and implement an operational resilience approach: service mapping, impact tolerances (as applicable), resilience testing, DR strategy, and ongoing control testing.
• Ensure third-party and cloud controls align to regulatory outsourcing expectations, including evidence and audit trails.
• Run, Operate & Continuous Improvement
• Establish the run model for production operations (support, monitoring, incident/problem/change), including vendor handoffs and on-call arrangements.
• Ensure the platform is operable: clear runbooks, dashboards, alerting, and measurable reliability and performance.
• Own ongoing technology risk management for the bank platform and lead remediation of issues found via testing, incidents, audit or regulator feedback.
• Build the Founding Technology Function
• Define the initial technology org shape and hiring plan (founding engineers/ops/security as needed), balancing internal capability with vendor delivery in association with shared Group Technology Services
• Set the culture: engineering standards, documentation quality, delivery discipline, and high integrity in a regulated environment.
• Coach and scale the team as the bank platform grows.

Conocimientos

Hands-on architecture

Regulated finance

Neo-bank platform

BaaS selection

Regulatory approvals

API-first

Cloud native

Security & controls

Herramientas

Mambu

eMACH.ai

Though Machine

Descripción del empleo

Monex is seeking a Head of Core Banking Technology in Madrid to lead the end-to-end design, build and deployment of a regulated bank platform. You will own architecture, vendor selection, and regulatory submissions while steering delivery across multiple partners and internal teams.

The role requires extensive hands-on experience in regulated financial services, a proven track record with neo-banks or greenfield platforms, and strong collaboration with regulators.