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SMBC Group

Director, Integration Architecture & Engineering (Payments)

SMBC Group
Singapore
12-18 Years
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Job Description

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & People Management

  • Build, lead, coach, and mentor a globally distributed team of integration specialists and system analysts.
  • Establish strong engineering culture, accountability, and ownership across design, development, and delivery.
  • Drive capability uplift, reducing reliance on vendors and strengthening in-house expertise.
  • Provide thought leadership and strategic direction for integration architecture across the payments landscape.

Integration Strategy, Architecture & Governance

  • Define and own the target-state integration architecture for OBPM within the enterprise payments ecosystem.
  • Establish standards, patterns, and governance frameworks across API, event-driven, file-based, and hybrid integrations.
  • Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, regulatory requirements, and security standards.
  • Drive modernization of legacy integrations, reducing complexity and enabling scalable, future-proof designs.

Techno-Functional Leadership

  • Translate complex business requirements into scalable and robust technical solutions.
  • Act as a senior bridge across business, architecture, engineering, and vendors, ensuring alignment and execution integrity.
  • Provide design authority and governance through architecture reviews, solution sign-offs, and risk assessments.

Engineering Oversight & Delivery Excellence

  • Oversee end-to-end integration delivery, ensuring quality across design, build, testing, and deployment.
  • Drive adoption of best practices in engineering, testing, and DevOps, including automation and production-equivalent testing.
  • Lead code merge, release strategy, and phased/staggered rollout approaches to reduce delivery risk.
  • Ensure robust error handling, resiliency, and observability across all integration flows.

Data, Documentation & Design Standards

  • Enforce high standards in data modeling, integration documentation, and interface specifications.
  • Ensure clarity, consistency, and reusability across artifacts (ISDs, sequence diagrams, data mappings).
  • Establish end-to-end traceability and governance across systems and integrations.

Stakeholder & Vendor Management

  • Engage senior stakeholders across IT, Operations, Business, and Head Office to drive alignment and decisions.
  • Influence vendors and internal teams to adopt target-state architecture and best practices.
  • Communicate complex technical concepts to executive audiences, including risk, trade-offs, and impact analysis.

Requirements

Experience & Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 12–18+ years of experience in integration architecture, solution design, and engineering leadership within enterprise environments.
  • Proven experience in leading distributed teams and managing large-scale, complex delivery programs.

Payments & Platform Expertise

  • Strong experience with payments platforms, preferably Oracle Banking Payments (OBPM/OBPay).
  • Deep understanding of payments processing, clearing, settlement, exception handling, and regulatory landscapes.
  • Experience delivering in high-availability, mission-critical financial systems.

More Info

Job Type:
Permanent Job
Industry:
Other
Function:
Payments
Employment Type:
Full time

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SMBC Group

Job ID: 149539719

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