Payment Consultant / Design Authority

Key Responsibilities

• Take lead in creation of key artefacts such as Payments architecture, roadmaps,strategies and communication plans.
• Use experience and expertise in Payments and Account Receivable to steer business on strategy and risks.
• Provide key inputs and subject matter expertise for projects during Design and Delivery.
• Design solutions for projects impacting Payments and Loan Management systems, ensuring that designs adhere to agreed design standards and methods.
• Produce Requirements Documents, High Level and Detailed Design documents, Input into Testing strategies and plans, and define or create Training material for each solution.
• Manage the solution design throughout the project lifecycle through to deployment, ensuring that any defects are identified and resolved throughout the process.
• Analyse and Resolve production issues by liaising with IT Operations L2/L3 teams.
• Provide support with PCI, FCA, SOX and Ofcom compliance as required.
• Assist with the transformation strategy for the Billing Domain in the Finance area, including engineering excellence and cost transformation .
• Support IT Operations with Operational stability and performance enhancements.
• Use experience to provide ROM estimates of cost and timescales for projects under early consideration.
• Support the Domain Head/Project Lead in assuring and challenging supplier work package technical scope and pricing keeping on top of the use of estimation model estimation tools as agreed with Supply Chain Management.

Knowledge and experience

• 6-10 years of experience of delivering IT Solutions in a Multi-vendor delivery model in Finance and Payments domains.
• Hands-on experience of complex design and knowledge of PCI-DSS, BACS, Telecoms.
• Domain knowledge on Pre-paid, Post-paid Billing areas for ISP, Broadband, GSM, IPTV, GPRS service providers.
• Knowledge of working with and integrating to traditional and modern Payment Service Providers (PSPs) with Digital Channels, Retail and BSS services.
• High level knowledge of End to end BSS practices.
• Strong technical skills, Unix and PL/SQL.
• Product upgrade experience.