# Senior Card Payments Specialist

**Company**: Starling
**Location**: London, England
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Starling is the UK's first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking!

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Card Payments Specialist to join our Payments Scheme team. This is a senior, hands-on position for someone with approximately 15 years of experience within banking and financial services, with deep specialist knowledge of card payments and card scheme requirements.

As a Senior Card Payments Specialist, you will act as a key subject matter expert (SME) for card payments, providing practical expertise across the design, build, and on-going operation of our banking environment.

Responsibilities:

- Acting as a senior subject matter expert for card payments across the organisation

- Providing specialist payments expertise during incidents, service disruptions, and other operational issues, supporting investigation, diagnosis, and resolution

- Working closely with engineers and technical teams building the banking and payment environment, translating card payment and scheme requirements into practical technical and operational requirements

- Reviewing proposed solutions and implementations from a card payments perspective and identifying potential operational, scheme, or compliance issues

- Ensuring card payment capabilities are designed and operated in accordance with applicable card scheme rules, standards, and requirements

Requirements:

- Approximately 15 years of experience within banking and/or financial services

- Significant hands-on experience specifically within card payments

- Deep knowledge of the end-to-end card payments lifecycle

- Strong working knowledge of major card schemes, particularly Visa and Mastercard, and their associated rules and compliance requirements

- Experience working alongside engineering, technology, and architecture teams within banking payments environments

Benefits:

- 33 days holiday (including public holidays)

- An extra day's holiday for your birthday

- Annual leave is increased with length of service

- 16 hours paid volunteering time a year

- Salary sacrifice, company-enhanced pension scheme

- Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection

- Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth

- Generous family-friendly policies

- Incentives refer a friend scheme

- Perkbox membership

## Skills

### Required
- card payments
- payment schemes
- Visa
- Mastercard
- EMV configurations
- payments risk
- governance
- controls
- compliance

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