Director, Integration Architecture & Engineering (Payments) - SMBC

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Singapore

Posted 17 days ago Permanent Competitive

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.

Job ID 1403646333

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