Role Summary

We are seeking a Payments Engineering Lead to provide technical and engineering leadership for Payments platforms within Transaction Banking, with regional accountability across Asia Pacific markets. This leadership role is responsible for engineering strategy, platform stability, and delivery execution for largescale payment modernization initiatives.

The role will lead the design, build, integration, and evolution of payment platforms, working closely with functional architecture, business, and control functions to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, compliant, and productionready. The ideal candidate brings deep experience delivering complex payments systems at scale and leading highperforming engineering teams in regulated environments.

Key Responsibilities

This position will be responsible for, but not limited to, the following:
- Own and drive the Payments Engineering strategy, ensuring alignment with the broader payments transformation roadmap across Asia Pacific.
- Provide end-to-end technical leadership for payment platforms, covering design, build,



integration, testing, deployment, and run.
- Translate functional architecture and business requirements into robust, scalable, and secure engineering solutions.
- Lead engineering delivery across payment domains including:

->Payment processing and orchestration

->Clearing and settlement integrations

->Real-time and instant payment rails

->Channel and client connectivity
- Make independent, senior-level decisions on engineering approaches, technology trade-offs, and delivery sequencing.
- Ensure platforms meet non-functional requirements, including performance, resilience, scalability, security, and availability.
- Partner closely with Functional Architecture, Business, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Technology teams to ensure cohesive end-to-end delivery.
- Provide leadership across multiple delivery teams, setting engineering standards, best practices, and quality benchmarks.
- Overs

📌 Payments Engineering Lead (Chennai)
🏢 Smbc Global Services
📍 Chennai