Technical Consultant

The Payments Technical Lead - 6 months and extended contract - WORK FROM HOME

10 years of experience in payments domain.

1. Payment Application Impact Analysis & Design

• Own the technical impact analysis and design for all payment applications impacted by OBP and Core Banking upgrades.

• Prepare and maintain HLDs and LLDs for impacted payment systems, integrations, and country specific payment rails.

• Translate upgrade driven changes into clear technical designs, impact notes, and implementation guidance.

2. Cross Application & Stakeholder Coordination

• Work closely with all payment application owners, program leads, and architecture teams to:

o Understand upgrade driven changes

o Assess functional and technical impact across payment applications

o Estimate the quantum of change across systems and integrations

• Act as the single technical coordination point for payment application changes across programs.

3. Country Specific Payment Rail Impact Handling

• Analyze and design changes across country specific payment rails and clearing systems (e.g., UAEFTS, WPS, ICCS, KNPS, QATCH, RTGS, ACH) resulting from OBP and Core Banking upgrades.

• Ensure impacted payment applications comply with local scheme rules, message formats, settlement logic, and regulatory requirements.

• Support scheme related certification and readiness activities for impacted systems.

4. Integration & Downstream System Alignment

• Design and review changes across integrations between:

o Payment applications

o OBP and Core Banking

o Channels and digital platforms

o Gateways and reconciliation systems (Payment Tracker, Sherlock, Bravos, TLM)

• Ensure all impacted integrations remain aligned with enterprise architecture, security, performance, and resilience standards.

5. Design Support During Build, Testing & Release

• Support build teams by clarifying design changes and resolving impact related gaps.

• Assist SIT/UAT by:

o Analyzing defects related to upgrade driven impacts

o Identifying root causes across payment applications and interfaces

• Validate readiness of impacted payment applications for release and production deployment.

6. Technical Governance & Consistency

• Ensure design consistency and traceability across all payment applications impacted by the upgrade.

• Highlight risks, dependencies, and cross application impacts to program and senior stakeholders.

• Ensure alignment with change management, release governance, and BCP/DR requirements.