Description
Starling Bank is looking for a highly skilled Senior Card Payments Specialist to join its Payments Scheme team. The successful candidate will have approximately 15 years of experience in 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 the banking environment. You will work closely with engineering and technology teams to ensure card payment capabilities are designed and implemented correctly, with consideration given to card scheme rules, operational requirements, controls, and compliance.
Key responsibilities include:
- 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
- Working closely with engineers and technical teams to build the banking and payment environment
- Reviewing proposed solutions and implementations from a card payments perspective
- Ensuring card payment capabilities are designed and operated in accordance with applicable card scheme rules, standards, and requirements
The ideal candidate will have:
- Approximately 15 years of experience in banking and/or financial services
- Significant hands-on experience in card payments
- Deep knowledge of the end-to-end card payments lifecycle
- Strong working knowledge of major card schemes, particularly Visa and Mastercard
- Experience working alongside engineering, technology, and architecture teams within banking payments environments
Benefits include:
- 33 days holiday (including public holidays)
- An extra day's holiday for your birthday
- Annual leave 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