Chief Payments Platform Architect

STANDARD CHARTERED BANK; Singapore; On-site; SGD 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Wellbeing support

Continuous learning culture

Competitive salary and benefits

Job summary

Standard Chartered Bank is seeking a Head of Payments Platforms to lead the core payment engines across a global footprint, driving modernization, resilience and high-throughput processing. You will steer an engineering division of engineers, oversee platform decisions, and partner with risk, product and operations to ensure uninterrupted payments services.

The role requires 15+ years in financial services with deep expertise in distributed systems, low-latency processing, and leadership of

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in financial services with deep expertise in software engineering, distributed systems, and low-latency transaction processing in transaction banking.
• Mastery of high-throughput payment gateways, clearing engine design, messaging transformation and ledger integration.
• Proven track record of leading engineering organizations of ~80+ headcount in a global bank or high-scale fintech.

Responsibilities

• Translate CIO Payments strategy into actionable platform engineering roadmaps and target-state architecture for core payment execution capabilities.
• Drive modernization of payment engines, messaging layers, and orchestration to ensure uninterrupted client operations.
• Lead governance, risk, resilience, and regulatory controls across the Payments Platform estate.
• Own platform performance, throughput, latency, availability and service quality across critical payment corridors.
• Lead and develop a high-performing global engineering and site reliability organization.
• Partner with Risk, Compliance, Cyber Security and Audit to maintain a strong control environment across the platform.

Skills

Distributed systems

Low-latency processing

Engineering leadership

Payment gateways

Transaction banking processes

Job description

Standard Chartered Bank is seeking a Head of Payments Platforms to lead the core payment engines across a global footprint, driving modernization, resilience and high-throughput processing. You will steer an engineering division of engineers, oversee platform decisions, and partner with risk, product and operations to ensure uninterrupted payments services.

The role requires 15+ years in financial services with deep expertise in distributed systems, low-latency processing, and leadership of