Head of Enterprise & Integrated Networks

Global Payments; Atlanta (GA); On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments is seeking a Senior Director, Head of Enterprise & Integrated Networks to define and deliver a comprehensive global network strategy. You will lead networks across enterprise, cloud, data centres and partner environments, driving modernization and automation while ensuring service resilience at scale.

You will manage budgets and suppliers, partner with executive leaders, and guide transformation programs in a regulated payments context.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading global Network Engineering, Infrastructure, or Technology Operations in large enterprises.
• Expertise across WAN, LAN, data centre networking, routing, switching, firewalls, load balancers, and cloud connectivity.
• Proven ability to lead geographically distributed teams and develop leaders across regions and time zones.
• Experience delivering technology transformation while maintaining operational stability in business-critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the global network strategy across enterprise, cloud, data centre and partner environments.
• Lead global network engineering and operations teams delivering service excellence for mission-critical infrastructure.
• Build roadmaps for modernization including automation, standardization, lifecycle management and transformation.
• Own performance, availability, risk management and service resilience during major incidents.

Skills

Network leadership

WAN & LAN

Data centre networking

Cloud connectivity

Budget ownership

Executive communication

SD-WAN

M&A / migrations

IaC / DevOps

Job description

Head of Enterprise & Integrated Networks Ready to take your career global? Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Senior Director, Head of Enterprise & Integrated Networks to join our ever-evolving Enterprise & Integrated Engineering team and help shape the future of global commerce.

What you’ll own

Define and deliver the global network strategy, ensuring resilient, secure, and scalable connectivity across enterprise, cloud, data centre, and partner environments. Lead global network engineering and operations teams, driving service excellence across mission-critical infrastructure supporting colleagues, clients, and business operations. Build and execute network modernization roadmaps, including automation, simplification, standardisation, lifecycle management, and transformation initiatives. Own operational performance, availability, risk management, and service resilience, providing leadership during major incidents and high-priority technology events. Partner with engineering, cloud, security, architecture, and business leaders to deliver technology outcomes while managing budgets, suppliers, and strategic investments.

What you’ll bring

Significant experience leading global Network Engineering, Infrastructure, or Technology Operations functions within large, complex enterprise environments. Strong expertise across enterprise networking, including WAN, LAN, data centre networking, routing, switching, firewalls, load balancing, and cloud connectivity. Proven ability to lead geographically distributed teams and develop high-performing leaders across multiple regions and time zones. Experience delivering technology transformation programmes while maintaining operational stability within business-critical environments. Strong commercial and stakeholder management skills, including budget ownership, supplier management, strategic planning, and executive-level communication. It’s a bonus if you have Experience in financial services, payments, banking, or another highly regulated industry. Experience leading network integration, merger and acquisition activities, large-scale migrations, or major infrastructure transformation programmes. Knowledge of SD-WAN, network automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), SRE, ITIL, DevOps, or modern infrastructure operating models.

About the team

Our inclusive and global teams win together every day. We’re proud to have the best minds in the industry, who you can learn from as you grow your career. The people, the energy, the connections – it’s unmatched. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders. What makes a Globalpayer? Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative – always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.

Global Payments and Worldpay recently joined forces, and we’re currently operating across two Workday application systems.

At Global Payments (NYSE : GPN), we empower simple, fast, secure payments for everyone.

And to do that, we’ve built a complete, worldwide commerce ecosystem that delivers software and services at scale to millions of companies around the world—from ambitious startups to global enterprises.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we're a Fortune 500® company and a member of the S&P 500 with worldwide reach spanning North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America.

Wherever you are—or wherever you want to be—we’re there, ready to support you.

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