Senior Consultant-Tech Strategy

PwC; Mumbai; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking an IT Strategy/Tech Strategy Senior Consultant to lead payments transformation projects from strategy to delivery. Ideal candidates will have 6-10 years of experience in payments implementation and strong knowledge of payment solutions and architecture standards. This full-time role is crucial for consulting, strategy planning, and IT service delivery.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of experience in payments implementation projects.
• Experience as a technology solution architect with at least 1 end-to-end payments implementation.
• Strong knowledge of payment products and related standards.
• Knowledge of standards and protocols: ISO 20022, ISO 8583, SWIFT, SEPA and API standards.
• Experience with cloud and on‑prem infrastructure, data security, and PCI PA‑DSS compliance.
• Strong problem solving and client-facing skills for techno-functional engagements.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex payments transformation projects.
• Manage trade-offs to speed to market, quality, and business impacts.
• Discuss payments requirements with customers.
• Manage trade-offs to speed to market while considering quality and business impact.
• Perform as‑is assessments and due‑diligence of payment architectures for clients.
• Contribute to IT maturity assessments of payments ecosystems and document to‑be solutions.

Skills

Payments implementation experience

Understanding of payments/financial solution architecture

Strong payments domain knowledge

Designing Technology specifications

Cloud and on-prem infrastructure knowledge

Problem solving skills

Client-facing experience

Strong communication skills

Tools

ISO 20022

ISO 8583

SWIFT

PCI DSS

Job description

Looking for IT Strategy/Tech Strategy Senior Consultants.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex payments transformation projects from strategy and design to delivery phase
• Assessment of technology Architecture in financial/banking domain, and design target state application/technology architecture
• Actively participate in cross‑functional, cross‑discipline architecture teams to enhance/set architectural direction for key business initiatives
• Manage trade-offs to speed to market, quality and business/financial impacts
• Perform as‑is technical assessment and technical due‑diligence of the payment’s architecture setup for our clients
• Perform IT maturity of payments ecosystem for our client
• Discuss payments requirements (Functional/Technical) with customer and create ‘to be’ solution documents
• Work on consulting assignments such as go to technology strategies, Function/technical architecture, Integration architecture , technology due‑diligence for Fintech/financial institutes

Required Skills

• 6‑10 years of experience in payments implementation projects having experience of at least 1 end to end payments implementation program as a technology solution architect
• Basic understanding of payments/financial solution architecture
• Strong payments domain experience in retail/corporate payments having detailed understanding of High value, low value, immediate payments, SWIFT cross border payments, salary payments, bulk payment file processing, card payments, UPI payments etc.
• Broad based knowledge and experience in P2P/B2B/B2C/G2P payments applications, channels
• Experience in designing Technology specification for payment products, and understanding of message specification such as ISO 20022, ISO 8583, SWIFT,SEPA etc. and API standards and other communication protocols
• Strong knowledge on cloud and on‑prem infrastructure, data and payments security (PCI DSS/PA DSS compliance), integration architecture, latest technology innovation and solution
• Problem solving solution skills and experience in handling complex transformation projects
• Client facing experience as a Techno‑functional Analyst, Tech Product manager, Project manager in payments implementation projects
• Strong communication, client handling and interpersonal skills

Desired Skills

• Prior technology consulting experience in the payment’s domain with consulting organizations
• Implementation experience of payment products in India and Globally
• Consultative selling skills

Other Information

• Preferred Experience(years) 6 - 10 years
• Seniority level: Associate
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Consulting, Strategy/Planning, and Information Technology
• Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting, Financial Services, and Banking