IT Programme Manager Payment Cards/API integration

IT Programme Manager with Card Payments API Integration

6-12-month contract

Inside IR35 (payroll via Umbrella co.)

Hybrid working with 2 days onsite in Liverpool per week.

Interviews ASAP

Applicants must have Payment cards and API integration experience.

My client is launching their own card and need a Programme Manager to deliver this product. Managing inhouse and 3rd party supplier teams reporting to the board.

You'll be responsible for Programme management of a team who will be delivering seamless, intuitive, and secure API integration experiences including API documentation, and testing environments.

As IT Programme Manager (Payment Cards/API integration) you'll:

• Take ownership for the entire programme lifecycle for transit deployments that require complex integration touch points and development, utilising both agile and waterfall frameworks
• Coordinate the completion of Scope of Works documentation depicting agreed integration methods among all associated parties in each project
• Work with technical stakeholders to analyse and resolve issues during integration projects, potentially requiring analysis of API calls or data to ensure 3rd parties are using our API-based products correctly and appropriately
• Take responsibility for the creation and upkeep of relevant project documentation such as Project Plans, RAID logs and RACI matrices
• Communicate confidently and professionally with all project stakeholders, in-line with project communication best practices, providing updates and escalations where necessary
• Provide feedback to the Product, Engineering, and Operations teams on improvements or development requests needed to support projects and deployments
• Support pre-sales resources in technical workshops to understand technical tasks needed in each integration project, and to explain our various products and services and how to integrate with them
• Collaborate with project management team to continuously improve project management practices, incorporating lessons learned and feedback from all stakeholders
• Work closely with the Operations team to prioritise, manage, and resolve project issues both while in project and immediately post-go-live

IT Programme Manager (Payment Cards/API integration) will have:

• At least 3 years' experience with programme delivery of technical solutions involving multiple integrating parties, preferably within Payments, FinTech or Financial Services
• Experience of delivering an API integration programmes of work with a payments cards business.
• Demonstrated experience in managing integrations with transit payments systems, ePOS, card-present and/or card-not-present acquiring processing or transactional solutions, or transactional services that use cloud-based infrastructure
• The ability to interact with multidisciplinary stakeholders through high quality written and verbal communication
• The ability to work under pressure, and consistently meet tight deadlines while delivering multiple programmes in parallel
• Agile programme management experience, accompanied by a PMP or Prince2 qualification (or similar)

If interested in this IT Programme Manager (Payment Cards/API integration) please apply with your latest CV applicants must be UK based and our client is unable to offer sponsorship.

Applicants must have Payment cards and API integration experience.

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