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security, and compliance requirements are met\nRelease, Change & Resilience Engineering\n· Lead release readiness and production validation for changes impacting payment switching platforms\n· Define rollback, failover, and recovery strategies to minimise customer impact\n· Own participation in DR testing, BCP exercises, and site-resilience planning for Payment Networks\nPayments Domain Ownership\n· Ensure deep operational understanding of payments transaction flows, including:\no Single Message / Real-time transaction switching\no Debit, ATM, POS, and network routing behaviour\n· Partner with product and engineering teams to ensure reliability considerations are embedded early in design\nLeadership & Mentorship\n· Provide technical leadership and mentoring to SREs and operations engineers\n· Set standards for runbooks, monitoring quality, alert hygiene, and operational excellence\n· Influence reliability strategy and priorities at a programme and domain level\nRequired Skills & 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