Solution Lead / Product Lead

Solution Lead / Product Lead - Payments - Acquiring - Contract - URGENT! (Inside IR35)

My client, a leading payments and banking giant is looking to hire the above role on contract. This is based in their office to work with a wider European team to work on major acquiring transformations.

Please see job spec below:

• Work with client and internal stakeholders to define E2E Product Proposition, Target Operating Models, Engagement Scope and the end-to-end Solution for selected merchant segments as part of integration initiative aiming at replacing scattered local propositions and solutions with strategic, consolidated offering
• Work with business representatives to define mandatory features to make this proposition successful in identified segments and markets.
• Create prioritized product backlog for initial deployment
• Define HL roadmap for evolving the proposition / offering as well as the further deployment into market, including transition approach from local solutions to consolidated one
• Plan solution related delivery activities, align with project management, other workstreams and manage a team of business analyst from solution team to execute on the plan and provide guidance and support
• Oversee definition of Solution requirements across customer experience, processing, operational engagement and business performance
• Work with a team of Business Analysts to capture client requirements
• Responsible for following agreed engagement model and solution design methodology and responsible for initial internal quality standards for all deliverables
• Report and escalate to Solution Director, engage with product / process leads to establish yourself as the internal point of solution orchestration, inquiry and decision validation
• Identify major gaps, issues and new product or capability implementations and work with Product Leads and Technical Solution Architect(s) on resolution
• Manage quality, accuracy and integrity of proposition, requirements, process and solution documentation
• Drive the handshake of solution documentation into the development organisation

People with experience with merchant acquiring, payments, Visa/Mastercard processing preferred.