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