Kanak Elite Services
Payments Technical Consultant
Duration:
12-months
Location:
Atlanta, GA (Day 1 Onsite)
Job Description As a Financial Services Consulting Senior Technical Consultant, your role is pivotal in advancing our firm's capabilities and achieving strategic objectives. By leveraging your skills, leadership capabilities, and industry knowledge, you will:
Drive our firm's growth
Deliver superior client value
Shape the future of payments and the payments experience
Innovate, achieve excellence, and create lasting impact in the financial services industry.
Key Focus Areas
Digital Payment and Customer Experience Expertise : Bring payments expertise, including experience with Payment APIs, payment platforms, and industry-leading customer experience. Your proficiency will drive design and implementation of robust, scalable payment solutions.
Innovation and Thought Leadership : Contribute to our firm's thought leadership by introducing innovative ideas, best practices, and emerging technologies.
Problem Solving and Solution Design : Provide guidance and support through all project phases—from ideation and design to testing and implementation.
Client Satisfaction and Loyalty : Uphold commitment to exceptional client service and satisfaction.
Why the Role Is Important The Technical Consultant plays a pivotal role in bridging the gap between technology and business operations within the dynamic payments ecosystem.
Once You Are Here, You Will Program Ownership & Governance
Delivery program vision, scope, operating model, and success metrics; maintain multi-release roadmap and benefits case.
Administer governance (steerco, RAID, stage gates), ensure audit-ready documentation, and manage budgets.
Lead change management across technology, operations, treasury, banking, risk, compliance, finance, and customer support.
Payments Domain Delivery
Deliver capabilities across wires/SWIFT, ACH/SEPA, real-time rails (RTP/FedNow/SEPA Instant/FPS), card networks, and cross border.
Orchestrate migration to ISO 20022, scheme certifications, and market infrastructure testing.
Stand up/upgrade payment hub, orchestration, and clearing adapters; improve STP, exception handling, reconciliation, and intraday liquidity visibility.
Coordinate fraud, AML, sanctions screening, tokenization, authorization routing, chargeback/dispute flows, and customer/merchant onboarding implications.
Risk, Controls & Compliance
Ensure adherence to PCI DSS, AML/KYC, sanctions/OFAC, Reg E/PSD2 SCA, data privacy, and internal model governance.
Drive NFRs: resilience, observability, throughput/latency SLOs, BCP/DR, incident/problem management improvements.
Vendor & Partner Management
Lead RFI/RFPs and contract negotiations for payment hubs, gateways, fraud tools, and network connectivity.
Manage SIs/partners against milestones, SLAs, and acceptance criteria.
Delivery & Engineering Collaboration
Plan and sequence releases across multiple feature teams; balance Agile/SAFe and stage gate controls.
Align architecture on APIs/microservices, eventing, batch vs. real time flows, and core banking integration.
Oversee cutover plans, market dress rehearsals, scheme certification, and hypercare.
Basic Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
3+ years of experience working on project teams and delivering payments modernization projects
3+ years of experience with business and technology for payments rails such as ACH, Wire, Card, RTP, FedNow
2+ years of experience with emerging payment areas of focus (Real Time Payments, Mobile Wallets, Payment Hubs, ISO 20022 Standards, Open Banking, etc.)
Additional Requirements
Technical background in payments systems, including card networks, payment schemes, and payment processing technologies
Knowledge of industry standards, regulations, and best practices (PCI-DSS, EMV, ISO8583, ISO 20022)
Preferences Consulting industry experience
Ideal Mindset
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail and ability to troubleshoot complex issues
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; ability to work effectively with internal teams and stakeholders
Please feel free to connect with us at saleem@kanakits.com
Seniority Level Mid-Senior level
Employment Type Contract
Job Function Information Technology
Industries Software Development
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12-months
Location:
Atlanta, GA (Day 1 Onsite)
Job Description As a Financial Services Consulting Senior Technical Consultant, your role is pivotal in advancing our firm's capabilities and achieving strategic objectives. By leveraging your skills, leadership capabilities, and industry knowledge, you will:
Drive our firm's growth
Deliver superior client value
Shape the future of payments and the payments experience
Innovate, achieve excellence, and create lasting impact in the financial services industry.
Key Focus Areas
Digital Payment and Customer Experience Expertise : Bring payments expertise, including experience with Payment APIs, payment platforms, and industry-leading customer experience. Your proficiency will drive design and implementation of robust, scalable payment solutions.
Innovation and Thought Leadership : Contribute to our firm's thought leadership by introducing innovative ideas, best practices, and emerging technologies.
Problem Solving and Solution Design : Provide guidance and support through all project phases—from ideation and design to testing and implementation.
Client Satisfaction and Loyalty : Uphold commitment to exceptional client service and satisfaction.
Why the Role Is Important The Technical Consultant plays a pivotal role in bridging the gap between technology and business operations within the dynamic payments ecosystem.
Once You Are Here, You Will Program Ownership & Governance
Delivery program vision, scope, operating model, and success metrics; maintain multi-release roadmap and benefits case.
Administer governance (steerco, RAID, stage gates), ensure audit-ready documentation, and manage budgets.
Lead change management across technology, operations, treasury, banking, risk, compliance, finance, and customer support.
Payments Domain Delivery
Deliver capabilities across wires/SWIFT, ACH/SEPA, real-time rails (RTP/FedNow/SEPA Instant/FPS), card networks, and cross border.
Orchestrate migration to ISO 20022, scheme certifications, and market infrastructure testing.
Stand up/upgrade payment hub, orchestration, and clearing adapters; improve STP, exception handling, reconciliation, and intraday liquidity visibility.
Coordinate fraud, AML, sanctions screening, tokenization, authorization routing, chargeback/dispute flows, and customer/merchant onboarding implications.
Risk, Controls & Compliance
Ensure adherence to PCI DSS, AML/KYC, sanctions/OFAC, Reg E/PSD2 SCA, data privacy, and internal model governance.
Drive NFRs: resilience, observability, throughput/latency SLOs, BCP/DR, incident/problem management improvements.
Vendor & Partner Management
Lead RFI/RFPs and contract negotiations for payment hubs, gateways, fraud tools, and network connectivity.
Manage SIs/partners against milestones, SLAs, and acceptance criteria.
Delivery & Engineering Collaboration
Plan and sequence releases across multiple feature teams; balance Agile/SAFe and stage gate controls.
Align architecture on APIs/microservices, eventing, batch vs. real time flows, and core banking integration.
Oversee cutover plans, market dress rehearsals, scheme certification, and hypercare.
Basic Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
3+ years of experience working on project teams and delivering payments modernization projects
3+ years of experience with business and technology for payments rails such as ACH, Wire, Card, RTP, FedNow
2+ years of experience with emerging payment areas of focus (Real Time Payments, Mobile Wallets, Payment Hubs, ISO 20022 Standards, Open Banking, etc.)
Additional Requirements
Technical background in payments systems, including card networks, payment schemes, and payment processing technologies
Knowledge of industry standards, regulations, and best practices (PCI-DSS, EMV, ISO8583, ISO 20022)
Preferences Consulting industry experience
Ideal Mindset
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail and ability to troubleshoot complex issues
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; ability to work effectively with internal teams and stakeholders
Please feel free to connect with us at saleem@kanakits.com
Seniority Level Mid-Senior level
Employment Type Contract
Job Function Information Technology
Industries Software Development
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