Senior Payments Strategist Johannesburg

5 days ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Samaha Consulting Full time
Job Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Payments Strategist to join our team in Johannesburg. As a key member of our payments value stream, you will play a critical role in transforming and modernizing our payments landscape with expertise in Microservices and Cloud Technologies.

This is a challenging role that requires strategic thinking, problem-solving skills, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment. If you have a passion for payments architecture and are looking for a rewarding career opportunity, we encourage you to apply.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and build payment services projects as per the roadmap of our business units;
  • Deliver recognized payment methods in each market and innovative payment methods working closely with technology providers;
  • Analyse different technical options to deliver the payment architecture, in alignment with the global/local payments roadmap, functional constraints, and e-commerce solutions landscape defined as part of the company strategy;
  • Perform workload estimation and prototype development together with the development teams;
  • Coordinate in some projects the development activities to ensure consistency between as-built solutions and their design;
  • Delivery of Solution Designs taking into account timeline and budget constraints;
  • Engage and collaborate with technical stakeholders (Architecture, Security, Infrastructure) to get the solution design approved and in line with IT strategy;
  • When applicable, assist the development manager in the coordination of development activities to get a solution in line with technical design documentation;
  • Provide appropriate documentation and coaching to the project team and provide assistance during installation/deployment phase;
  • Ensure efficient knowledge transfer and ramp up time for new on- and off-shore developers;
  • Industrialization is integrated in the design of the solution when possible to be easily rolled out in other contexts without major developments;
  • Work to assure Online and Offline international payment acceptance for all brands and markets;
  • Use continuous improvement methodologies to grow revenue, reduce costs, and mitigate risk;
  • Work to mitigate risk when it comes to payments acceptance. Assure PCI and ISO principles. Work with Fraud/Risk business teams and prepare plans for data breach response plans and DRP related to payments acceptance;
  • Advocate the adoption of 'best practices' to ensure standardization across the organization in processes and solutions and collaborate with cross-functional business units and other functional teams to drive end-to-end process consistency, maturity & effectiveness.


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