Job Description

About Us:

Planet is a leading technology company transforming payments by putting customer experience first. We offer integrated solutions that include payment processing, VAT refunds, dynamic currency conversion, and management services for merchants in the Retail and Hospitality sectors worldwide.

In recent years, we have experienced significant growth, expanding our services and global presence.

With strong private equity investors, Advent International and Eurazeo, we have the financial capital and expertise to grow our capabilities and reach through acquisitions.

Our mission is to create a world of connected commerce where payments are simple, secure, and seamless, enabling our partners to deliver exceptional experiences to their customers.

The VP of Enterprise Engineering leads Planet’s enterpriseengineeringdomain, shaping thelongtermtechnology strategy and ensuring the delivery, stability, and evolution of core platforms. This role spanspeopleleadership, architectural direction, operational excellence, and program delivery across multiple engineering domains.

You will create clarity, buildhigh performingteams, and drive engineering outcomes that support Planet’s growth and the scalability of our platforms.

What you will do:

• Define and drive the enterprise engineering strategy , ensuring alignment with Planet’s technology and business vision.

• Lead and scalehigh performingengineering teams across backend, frontend, API, IAM, data, database, cloud, and platform domains.

• Oversee delivery ofmission criticalplatforms and programs , ensuring reliability, performance, and compliance globally.

• Strengthenengineering excellenceby modernisingplatforms, simplifying architectural landscapes, and improving development and operational practices.

• Ensure operational stability and resilience , partnering closely with Cloud Ops,SysOps, Product Support, and Security teams.

• Shape and govern technology decisions , influencing architecture, security, roadmapprioritisation, andcross functionalalignment.

• Manage senior stakeholders across Product, Architecture, Security, Operations, and Business teams with transparency and accountability.

Systems & Platforms Under Your Leadership

You oversee a broad ecosystem ofenterprise criticalplatforms that underpin Planet’s payment processing, merchant experiences, and identity landscape. These include:

• Planet PortalPlanet’s unified merchant experience platform, integrating data and functionality from multiple internal systems

• Data Interchange Plane (DIP)responsible for nearrealtimedata flow, CDC ingestion,Kafka basedevent streaming, and the Canonical Data Model used across Planet Portal and other domains

• Enterprise IAM:Auth0 / Planet Login,whichprovidesunified authentication acrossPlanetPortal, 3C Portal,PMSandother systemsPlanetIAMsystem is used to manage accesslevelsandpermissions to internal systems

• Boarding platforms:Responsible forDigital Onboarding, ServiceactivationandIntegraPortalThese platforms are critical for onboarding andactivation ofnew merchants.

• 3CPortal.com:Merchant portal used by 3C gateway merchants to see details about their transactions and terminal estate.

• Enterprise Service:Responsible for the design, planning and delivery of a new set of enterprise services like Card Recognition System, IntegraProxyor FraudService platform.

• IXS:Responsible for batch completion platform of 3C gateway

Technology Leadership

• Setlongtermengineering direction and ensure alignment with Planet’s strategicobjectives

• Drive architecturemodernisation, platform consolidation, and adoption of scalablecloud nativepatterns.

• Ensure engineering teams applybest in classpractices in code quality, automation, observability, and reliability.

Delivery Execution

• Lead execution of major enterprise initiatives, including Planet Portal, DIP, Auth0/IAM transformation, and other strategic platforms.

• Ensure strong coordination across engineering, product, architecture, and operations teams to deliverhigh qualityoutcomes.

• Balanceshort termdelivery withlong termsustainability through smartprioritisationand technical stewardship.

Operational Excellence

• Own engineering support models, on-callstructures, and incident/problem management quality.

• Promote a culture of continuous improvement,data drivendecision making, and blameless postmortems.

• Ensure compliance with industry and regulatory standards (e.g., PCI DSS).

People &Organisation

• Build and mentorhigh performingteams, ensuring clear responsibilities, growth paths, and succession planning.

• Recruit top talent while also fostering internal mobility and capability building across theorganisation

• Reinforce ahigh trust, collaborative culture grounded in Planet’s values.

Who You Are:

• A seasoned engineering leader with experience across multiple technology domains in complex, global environments.

• Able to translate business needs into clear engineering strategy and execution plans.

• Strong technical foundation across cloud, distributed systems, data, platforms, and integration architectures.

• Skilled stakeholder manager capable of influencing at the executive level.

• Passionate about empowering teams, simplifying processes, and driving sustainable, high impactoutcomes.

Why Planet :

Planet is an equal opportunity employer where diversity is valued, and all employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.

Come and grow your career in the most exciting, fast paced technology market, with a business that delivers feel-good connected commerce. We would love to hear from you – Apply now

At Planet, we embrace a hybrid work model, with three days a week in the office.

Reasonable accommodations may be made in order to allow for an individual to perform the essential functions of this role successfully.