VP Enterprise Engineering

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.

Role Overview 

The VP of Enterprise Engineering leads Planet’s enterprise engineering domain, shaping the longterm technology strategy and ensuring the delivery, stability, and evolution of core platforms. This role spans people leadership, architectural direction, operational excellence, and program delivery across multiple engineering domains. 

You will create clarity, build high performing teams, 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 scale high performing engineering teams across backend, frontend, API, IAM, data, database, cloud, and platform domains. 

• Oversee delivery of mission critical platforms and programs, ensuring reliability, performance, and compliance globally. 

• Strengthen engineering excellence by modernising platforms, 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, roadmap prioritisation, and cross functional alignment. 

• 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 of enterprise critical platforms that underpin Planet’s payment processing, merchant experiences, and identity landscape. These include: 

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

• Data Interchange Plane (DIP): responsible for near realtime data flow, CDC ingestion, Kafka based event streaming, and the Canonical Data Model used across Planet Portal and other domains 

• Enterprise IAM: Auth0 / Planet Login, which provides unified authentication across Planet Portal, 3C Portal, PMS and other systems. Planet IAM system is used to manage access levels and permissions to internal systems. 

• Boarding platforms: Responsible for Digital Onboarding, Service activation and IntegraPortal. These platforms are critical for onboarding and activation of new 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, Integra Proxy or Fraud Service platform. 

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

Technology Leadership 

• Set longterm engineering direction and ensure alignment with Planet’s strategic objectives. 

• Drive architecture modernisation, platform consolidation, and adoption of scalable cloud native patterns. 

• Ensure engineering teams apply best in class practices 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 deliver high quality outcomes. 

• Balance short term delivery with long term sustainability through smart prioritisation and technical stewardship. 

Operational Excellence 

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

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

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

People & Organisation 

• Build and mentor high performing teams, ensuring clear responsibilities, growth paths, and succession planning. 

• Recruit top talent while also fostering internal mobility and capability building across the organisation. 

• Reinforce a high 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 impact outcomes.

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.