Director, FX Platform Engineering

Global Payments Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments Inc. is seeking a Director, FX Engineering to lead the FX technology strategy within the Money Movement Technology team in London.

You will own the platform vision for multi‑currency settlement and partner with business stakeholders to translate strategy into scalable, reliable engineering solutions. You will build and mentor high‑performing engineering teams, drive cloud adoption, IaC, automation, and observability, and ensure governance, production readiness, and cost

Qualifications

• Significant engineering leadership experience within financial services, payments, fintech, or FX 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 balancing technical investment, platform scalability, business priorities, and operational costs.
• Experience working within Agile, DevOps, and modern software delivery environments.
• Exceptional stakeholder management with the ability to influence executive leaders, engineering teams, and business partners.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the engineering strategy, technology roadmap, and platform vision supporting FX platforms.
• Lead the design, development, modernization, and operation of highly scalable FX platforms that support global merchants.
• Build and inspire high-performing engineering teams, creating a culture of innovation and technical excellence.
• Drive the evolution of FX infrastructure to ensure resilience, security, performance, and compliance.
• Partner with Product, Commercial, Operations, Treasury, Risk, and Finance to translate business strategy into engineering roadmaps.
• Lead engineering delivery across cloud and on-premise environments with automation and observability.
• Establish governance, release management, production readiness, and engineering best practices.
• Evaluate build, buy, and partner opportunities to accelerate innovation for FX capabilities.
• Drive platform modernization initiatives using IaC and cloud-native tech.
• Own engineering metrics, platform health, capacity planning, and cost management.
• Collaborate across FX, Payments, Billing, Funding, and Reporting platforms for seamless integration.
• Represent FX Engineering in senior leadership forums and shape the long-term tech strategy.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Agile/DevOps

Stakeholder management

Executive influence

Problem-solving

Talent development

Roadmapping

Tools

AWS

Infrastructure as Code

Observability tools

DevOps tooling

Job description

Global Payments Inc. is seeking a Director, FX Engineering to lead the FX technology strategy within the Money Movement Technology team in London.

You will own the platform vision for multi‑currency settlement and partner with business stakeholders to translate strategy into scalable, reliable engineering solutions. You will build and mentor high‑performing engineering teams, drive cloud adoption, IaC, automation, and observability, and ensure governance, production readiness, and cost