Head of Transactional Banking Technology

Essential experience
Demonstrable experience in UK Corporate Banking technology environments.
Strong Corporate Transactional Banking domain knowledge, including business current accounts, payments
integration, client servicing, fees, overdrafts and related banking journeys.
Experience delivering transactional banking, current account, cash management or corporate digital banking
capabilities.
Experience working with or integrating into core banking platforms such as Mambu, Finacle, Temenos, Thought
Machine or equivalent.
Proven track record leading engineering teams, technology domains or delivery squads within financial services.
Experience delivering complex, multi-platform solutions in regulated banking environments.
Technical and architectural understanding
Strong understanding of API-driven integration, platform-based architecture and modern engineering practices.
Comfortable operating in a federated platform environment with multiple accountable platform owners.
Good understanding of cloud-native engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, test automation, observability and operational
resilience.
Able to challenge and guide architecture decisions while remaining pragmatic and delivery-focused.
Leadership and delivery
Strong people leadership with the ability to build, motivate and scale engineering teams.
Excellent stakeholder management across business, product, technology, architecture, risk and operations.
Commercially minded and outcome-focused, with the ability to connect technology delivery to business value.
Comfortable operating in ambiguity, shaping new capabilities and creating structure in a fast-moving environment.
AI and innovation
Practical experience using AI-enabled tools or practices to improve engineering productivity, quality or delivery
outcomes.
Strong curiosity about how AI is reshaping transactional banking, corporate banking technology and financial services
delivery.
Ability to identify practical AI use cases that create measurable client, operational or engineering value.
Balanced approach to innovation within a regulated banking environment.
Personal attributes
Senior, credible and commercially aware technology leader.
Hands-on enough to understand delivery detail, senior enough to operate with executive stakeholders.
Pragmatic, decisive and comfortable making trade-offs.
Collaborative, clear and calm under pressure.
Passionate about building modern banking experiences and high-performing engineering teams.

Work arrangement
Hybrid