Closing date for applications: 07/08/2026

Location Bangalore, India

Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time

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Job description

This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India.

Join us as a Shared Services Platform Lead, Economic Crime Technology

- We’re looking for someone who has previously built Fraud or AML systems, with real influence and exceptional organisational skills to lead us to agreed targets
- You’ll own the full lifecycle of the Economic Crime Shared Services platform across the bank
- You’ll be able to really make this role your own, allowing excellent exposure for you as this role operates with a wide remit
- We're offering this role at director level

What you'll do

We’ll be asking you to set the strategic direction, architecture, and engineering standards for the Shared Services platform, ensuring services are resilient, compliant, scalable, and fit for purpose in a highly regulated workplace.

You’ll be accountable for the end-to-end technology platforms supporting the shared services function within Economic Crime, spanning Fraud, AML and Screening. As well as this, you'll lead the adoption of cloud-native architectures, alongside event-driven real-time decisioning capabilities and API-enabled, microservices-based ecosystems. You'll drive the simplification of the legacy technology estate and vendor rationalisation to enhance agility, scalability, and operational efficiency.

You’ll also be:





- Leading large-scale engineering teams, fostering strong software engineering practices across continuous integration and continuous delivery, DevSecOps, and automation to drive high-quality, secure, and scalable technology solutions
- Taking ownership of the financial, commercial and flow performance of the platform
- Providing deep domain expertise across Fraud and AML to shape technology decisions
- Managing the platform risk culture, making sure that teams effectively collaborate to mitigate risk
- Delivering the regulatory reporting and managing the relevant budgets provided

The skills you'll need

In this role, you’ll need to have in-depth domain or platform product knowledge and experience. Operational risk management, financial management, collaboration and negotiation are all important elements of this role, as is strong commercial acumen with an acute understanding of the business landscape.

You’ll also be expected to have:

- Strong leadership skills, including Agile and servant leadership experience
- Architecture, design and engineering skills, relevant to the specific platform
- Experience of working and running high performance programmes, projects and teams

Welcome to our Bangalore hub

Located at Taurus 4, Bagmane Constellation Business Park, our new office stands as a state-of-the-art hub for innovation and collaboration.

Key facts:

- A 30 acre campus
- Space for 6,000 colleagues
- Opened in 2025

📌 Shared Services Platform Lead, Economic Crime Technology (India)
🏢 National Westminster Bank
📍 India