Director, Head of Core Banking Technology Platforms

PayPal•Chicago, IL

1d•$188,000 - $294,250•Hybrid

About The Position

PayPal Bank is seeking a Director, Head of Core Banking Technology Platforms, to lead the strategy, architecture, implementation, and operation of platforms supporting deposits, lending, payment gateway services, and Federal Reserve master-account connectivity. The deposit platform will be built on a modern, cloud-native core, while lending will leverage and evolve existing in-house capabilities. The role will also lead payment gateway implementation and related Federal Reserve payment services. The leader will unify these capabilities through composable APIs and event-driven architecture, integrating with PayPal’s identity, fraud, credit, payments, finance, treasury, compliance, data, servicing, and customer-experience platforms. This highly visible role requires deep banking and payments expertise, strong architectural judgment, and experience delivering secure, resilient, regulated infrastructure at scale.

Requirements

10+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
2 years of experience leading others
12+ years of software engineering or technology-platform experience, including significant leadership responsibility.
7+ years leading engineering teams responsible for banking, payments, or other highly regulated platforms.
Demonstrated experience implementing, modernizing, or operating core banking platforms spanning deposits, lending, or payments.
Deep understanding of deposit accounts, loan systems, transaction posting, interest processing, payment clearing and settlement, reconciliation, and general-ledger integration.
Experience implementing payment gateways or direct bank connectivity to ACH, wire, or instant-payment networks.
Experience building enterprise API platforms and event-driven distributed systems.
Strong understanding of ledger design, double-entry accounting, financial controls, and data lineage.
Experience integrating banking platforms with identity, fraud, credit decisioning, payments, finance, treasury, compliance, data, and servicing systems.
Proven ability to deliver highly available, secure, auditable platforms at significant transaction scale.
Experience managing critical technology vendors and holding them accountable for delivery, reliability, and contractual service levels.
Strong record of recruiting and leading senior engineers, architects, engineering managers, and platform teams.
Ability to communicate complex technical and operational issues clearly to executives, business partners, auditors, and regulators.

Nice To Haves

Experience launching a de novo bank, digital bank, or new banking platform.
Experience with modern, cloud-native, product-configurable banking cores.
Knowledge of FBO, custodial, and omnibus deposit structures and related recordkeeping requirements.
Familiarity with FDIC-insured deposit operations, pass-through deposit insurance, and brokered-deposit considerations.
Experience supporting interest-bearing consumer accounts and configurable interest-rate products.
Familiarity with banking regulations, technology-risk management, cybersecurity, model governance, and financial-crime controls.
Experience integrating separate deposit and lending cores through a shared API, event, and accounting architecture.
Experience implementing Federal Reserve master-account connectivity or integrating with Federal Reserve payment services, including FedACH, Fedwire Funds Service, or FedNow Service.
Experience operating banking platforms across public-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments.
Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

Directs and controls the delivery of business and technical outcomes that comprise multiple projects and operational activities within a domain through organizational and technical leadership
Defines engineering health objectives that drive organization health, engineering best practices and operational targets
Drives product and technical strategy with cross-functional leaders across the enterprise to deliver Domain goals
Responsible for the delivery of programs, establishing annual organizational goals and ensuring performance and results that impact both their domain and potentially enterprise
Develops engineering strategy that translates into operational and tactical plans; uses ground-breaking methods to think beyond existing solutions
Sets the tri-annual roadmap for a domain level organization. Defines the operational strategy for a domain based on a defined budget
Evaluates key business challenges and can complete complex, ambiguous initiatives having impact across engineering; directs the development of new or innovative solutions. Ability to deal with high levels of technical domain level ambiguity.
Collaborates with direct team, managers in org, stakeholders, managers in other orgs, external partners and business stakeholders