Director — Financial Infrastructure Oversight

Aspera Edge's institutional operating layer depends on the continuous integrity of financial infrastructure across counterparty engagement — banking integration architectures, settlement infrastructure across global rail systems, correspondent infrastructure relationships, and the operating integrity of the rail-level infrastructure on which counterparty treasury and payments operations depend. The Financial Infrastructure Supervision function exists to govern this integrity.

The Director — Financial Infrastructure Oversight is the operating principal of this function. The role establishes how Aspera Edge supervises rail integration across counterparty operations, how settlement infrastructure integrity is maintained across multi-rail counterparty engagement, and how banking integration architecture governs the operational coherence of the institutional access surface.

Lead financial infrastructure supervision across counterparty engagement. Establish rail integration governance, settlement infrastructure operating standards, and banking integration architecture across counterparty operations spanning Americas, EMEA, and APAC rail systems.

The Director operates as the infrastructure supervision principal — owning the operational integrity of rail-level coordination across counterparty operations, the governance of banking integration architecture, and the supervision of settlement infrastructure across the counterparty book. This is not a technology function. It is financial infrastructure supervision.

Day-to-day, the role coordinates with the Director — Treasury Operations on settlement infrastructure realities supporting treasury operations, with the Senior Manager — Liquidity & Capital Operations on European banking integration, with the Cross-Border Payments Analyst on APAC rail integration, with the Banking Relationship Manager on banking integration at the engagement principal layer, and with the Chief Operating Officer on infrastructure supervision operating standards.

The function operates against the institutional reality that financial infrastructure at this scale is not platform infrastructure — it is the rail-level architecture through which institutional treasury and payments operations actually clear and settle. Infrastructure supervision failure manifests as settlement disruption, rail unavailability, or banking integration degradation — institutional incidents with counterparty operational consequence.

• Lead financial infrastructure supervision across counterparty engagement, including rail integration governance, settlement infrastructure operating standards, and banking integration architecture
• Establish rail-level integration governance across global rail systems — SWIFT, ACH, FedNow, RTP, TARGET2, SEPA, SEPA Instant, CHAPS, Pix-equivalent, UPI, PromptPay, FAST, RTGS networks — including integration operating standards and rail-level coordination protocols
• Direct settlement infrastructure supervision across counterparty operations, including settlement finality coordination, settlement infrastructure performance supervision, and cross-rail settlement continuity
• Govern banking integration architecture across institutional banking counterparties, including correspondent banking integration, treasury services provider integration, and banking-rail-level coordination
• Coordinate infrastructure operating standards across the Operational Integrity Analyst and Settlement Infrastructure Analyst, ensuring consistent supervision across European and APAC infrastructure surfaces
• Handle infrastructure supervision escalation events — settlement infrastructure incident, rail disruption, banking integration failure, infrastructure degradation — through documented escalation protocols
• Translate rail evolution into infrastructure supervision standards — monitoring rail-level developments (instant rail emergence, settlement framework evolution, banking integration shifts) and adapting infrastructure governance accordingly
• Represent the infrastructure supervision function in executive coordination with the Chief Operating Officer and broader executive leadership
• Coordinate infrastructure supervision standards with counterparty infrastructure principals during institutional engagement and deployment phases

• Global rail systems spanning Americas (SWIFT, ACH, FedWire, FedNow, RTP, CHIPS), EMEA (TARGET2, SEPA, SEPA Instant, CHAPS, BACS), and APAC (Pix-equivalent, UPI, PromptPay, FAST, RTGS networks)
• Institutional banking counterparties operating as infrastructure principals — correspondent banking, treasury services providers, and banking integration partners
• Settlement infrastructure spanning rail-level clearing and settlement architectures across multi-currency, multi-jurisdictional counterparty operations
• Infrastructure operational anchors across New York, London, Singapore, with cross-anchor infrastructure coordination
• Internal coordination with Director — Treasury Operations, Senior Manager — Liquidity & Capital Operations, Cross-Border Payments Analyst, Banking Relationship Manager, Settlement Infrastructure Analyst, Operational Integrity Analyst
• Infrastructure principal layer engagement at banking infrastructure counterparties and payments infrastructure providers

• 12+ years institutional financial infrastructure leadership at top-tier bank operations, payments infrastructure firm, central infrastructure provider, or comparable institutional financial infrastructure environment
• Demonstrated leadership of rail-level infrastructure supervision at institutional scale, including settlement infrastructure governance and banking integration architecture
• Direct operating experience with multi-rail settlement infrastructure spanning Americas, EMEA, and APAC rail systems — at supervisory depth rather than transactional depth
• Working fluency with institutional banking integration realities, correspondent banking architecture, and treasury services provider integration governance
• Cross-jurisdictional infrastructure operating experience spanning at least two of the following operational anchors: Americas, EMEA, APAC
• Executive coordination experience at the operating principal layer with COO and broader executive leadership
• Infrastructure supervision discipline appropriate for institutional financial infrastructure environments — settlement integrity posture, rail-level governance rigor, infrastructure escalation management