We are looking for a Head of Payments & Identity to build and lead an engineering domain responsible for the complete user and money lifecycle: from customer identification and fraud prevention to deposits, withdrawals and accurate financial accounting in the Core Ledger.
You will transform the current payment capability into a structured organisation across Payments, KYC/Identity, Anti-Fraud and Core Ledger, leading approximately 30 engineers and engineering leaders.
This role requires a strong engineering leader who can build teams and engineering culture, shape architecture and delivery, and balance customer conversion with security, regulatory compliance and financial integrity.
Responsibilities
- Build and scale the engineering domain across Payments, KYC/Identity, Anti-Fraud and Core Ledger
- Lead approximately 30 engineers and engineering leaders, defining the organisational structure, team boundaries, leadership model and areas of ownership
- Define the domain strategy, target architecture and execution roadmap in partnership with Product, Finance, Compliance,



Risk and Operations
- Ensure seamless and reliable interaction across the user and money lifecycle: KYC data supports fraud decisions, fraud controls protect payment flows, and payment events create accurate and idempotent records in the Core Ledger
- Improve the speed, quality and predictability of integrations with payment providers, KYC/AML vendors and other external partners, particularly across regions with inconsistent APIs and complex operational requirements
- Ensure the resilience, observability and security of external integrations, including fallback scenarios, incident response and integration quality standards
- Balance onboarding and payment conversion with Anti-Fraud, AML, data protection and transaction traceability requirements
- Provide Finance, Compliance, Risk and Operations with reliable data and tools for reconciliation, investigations, exception handling and reporting
- Establish

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