Payments Tech Programme Lead — Hybrid London

Parser Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Hybrid working environment

Job summary

Parser in London is seeking a Technical Project Manager to drive end-to-end payments implementation programs across card schemes and processors. You will own technical delivery with a delivery team, ensuring certification, testing, and production readiness.

The role requires senior payments expertise, strong stakeholder management, and the ability to coordinate multiple technical SMEs while operating as an embedded product lead in a fast-paced, global environment.

Qualifications

• Proven track record managing complex card issuing, processor migration, or payment implementation programs.
• Strong understanding of scheme implementation processes, including Host Certification and network connectivity, Clearing & Settlement, Token Service, CIQs, and scheme testing/production readiness.
• Senior-level professional with strong payments domain expertise covering card issuing and processing.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate technical SMEs and engineering teams without hands-on coding responsibility.
• Extensive experience working with issuers, processors, card schemes, and large-scale payments delivery environments.
• Ability to operate as a subject matter expert and embedded product lead, managing risks and blockers across programs.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication, able to influence at all levels in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end coordination of implementation activities across card schemes, processors, and internal teams.
• Drive planning, execution, and governance for Host Certification, Scheme Testing, Token Service, and Settlement readiness.
• Act as the primary coordination point between technical SMEs to ensure timely delivery of certification, testing, tokenization, and readiness.
• Manage dependencies, risks, issues, and critical-path activities, escalatng blockers and driving resolutions.
• Define and prioritise work based on technical deps and business objectives; report progress to stakeholders.
• Facilitate discussions with implementation managers, processor teams, solution architects, and business stakeholders.
• Maintain oversight of certification progress, test execution, tokenization onboarding, and post-launch stabilization.

Skills

Payments domain expertise

Stakeholder management

Coordination across teams

Risk management

Communication skills

Project coordination

Tools

PM tools

Job description

Parser in London is seeking a Technical Project Manager to drive end-to-end payments implementation programs across card schemes and processors. You will own technical delivery with a delivery team, ensuring certification, testing, and production readiness.

The role requires senior payments expertise, strong stakeholder management, and the ability to coordinate multiple technical SMEs while operating as an embedded product lead in a fast-paced, global environment.