Job responsibilities
* Act as the primary subject matter expert on payment schemes, leading integration efforts for clients and ensuring seamless connections with payment schemes
* Drive the development and execution of the product roadmap, focusing on enhancing and productising our payment capabilities
* Effectively gather business requirements and translate them into stories and acceptance criteria for both in-house and external engineering teams
* Help clients define business logic for payment flow orchestration based on scheme rules, prior experience and working knowledge
* Stay up-to-date with the payment scheme developments and regulations, to design and build payments connectivity with future compatibility and compliance
* Optimise the payments platform performance to ensure speed, security, reliability, and scalability
* Support implementation and testing, including operational set-up and training where required
* Participate in defining operating model and procedures for management of the connected payment schemes
* Collaborate with Engineering, Controls etc. to ensure the right process flows, procedures, training materials, etc are in place in good time
* Assist with the running of Agile ceremonies, e.g. DSUs
* Serve as the day-to-day contact for all scheme related product queries, promptly addressing and escalating issues to management.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
* Experience working as a Technical Product Manager on EU and/or UK payment schemes
* Strong working knowledge of SEPA (SEPA Instant, SEPA CT and SEPA DD) and/or BACS (BACS DD, BACS CT) payment schemes
* Knowledge of financial messaging e.g. scheme messages, ISO20022
* Strong understanding of payment operations
* Comfortable working with financial grade APIs
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
* Experience working with directly with clearing and settlement mechanisms (CSMs)
* Project Management / Delivery qualifications
* Knowledge of the external/ competitor landscape, key players (inc. banks, PSPs, fintechs, vendors), legislative environment (Open Banking, PSD2/3 etc.)
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