About The Position
At Simplii Financial, we're redefining how Canadians move money by building robust, scalable payments platforms that simplify complex processes and anticipate future needs. As the Director, Product Owner – Payments Infrastructure & Transaction Processing, you'll lead the vision, roadmap, and delivery priorities for Simplii’s payments infrastructure. You’ll be responsible for ensuring reliable, transparent, and efficient money movement across digital and assisted channels, overseeing integration with payment hubs, card processors, rail providers, and reconciliation systems. Your role will involve translating business goals, regulatory mandates, and operational pain points into actionable product outcomes, partnering closely with technology, architecture, operations, risk, finance, and external vendors. You’ll drive modernization efforts, streamline platform architecture, and ensure the payments infrastructure is resilient, compliant, and positioned for innovation.
Requirements
- Technically strong platform product leader with deep knowledge of payments infrastructure.
- Ability to challenge architecture, operations, and engineering decisions to drive optimal outcomes.
- Decisive product owner skilled at turning complex modernization goals into sequenced roadmaps, disciplined backlogs, and measurable results.
- Understanding of regulated financial services, including the importance of speed, resilience, controls, auditability, and incident readiness in payments processing.
- Collaborative leader who fosters alignment across product, technology, architecture, operations, finance, risk, compliance, security, and vendor partners.
- Strong experience in payments product leadership, transaction processing, card issuing/processing, or banking platform roles within regulated environments.
- Values trust, teamwork, and accountability.
Responsibilities
- Define and refine the product vision for Simplii’s payments platform, balancing reliability, scalability, compliance, and cost efficiency.
- Translate business and regulatory priorities into a clear roadmap, managing integrations with payment hubs, processors, card networks, rail providers, and finance systems.
- Lead the discovery and delivery of payments modernization initiatives, reducing duplication and complexity while enhancing platform resilience and extensibility.
- Develop and maintain capabilities for payments reconciliation, settlement, and operational visibility, ensuring compliance with regulatory and scheme requirements.
- Manage the squad backlog, lead agile ceremonies, and provide transparent roadmap updates to senior leaders and delivery teams.
- Act as the product decision-maker, partnering with internal teams and external vendors to translate requirements into deliverable outcomes.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Incentive pay
- Banking benefits
- Benefits program
- Defined benefit pension plan
- Employee share purchase plan
- Vacation offering
- Wellbeing support
- MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program
- Purpose Day, a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
