Remote Payments Consulting Manager - Strategy

NTT DATA, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA Services is seeking a Financial Services Payments Consulting Manager to lead and shape end-to-end payment solutions for financial institutions, processors, and fintechs in the US. The role emphasizes architecture, modernization, and client-facing delivery across ACH, wires, SWIFT, and real-time rails.

A strong background in payments strategy and collaboration with diverse teams is essential. The position offers opportunities to influence industry trends, drive growth, and deliver

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in payments, banking technology, or financial services systems.
• 4+ years hands-on experience with payment solutions for ACH, wires, SWIFT, and real-time payment rails.
• 4+ years end-to-end payment processing, settlement, reconciliation, and exception handling.
• 4+ years of experience designing modern payment solutions using APIs, microservices, and event-driven patterns.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a payments functional manager to design end-to-end solutions across ACH, wire payments, SWIFT, and real-time rails.
• Lead current-state assessments and define target-state operating models aligned to business and regulatory requirements.
• Design modern, API-driven, cloud-ready and/or on-prem payment platforms, including integration patterns and data flows.
• Provide thought leadership to clients on key industry trends and topics.
• Understand the vendor landscape and how clients may enable them in their environment.
• Advise on payment modernization initiatives, including migration from legacy systems.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, engineers, vendors, and operations teams to create target state requirements and ensure traceability through to design and implementation.
• Produce high-quality artifacts (target operating models, requirements, solution designs, etc.).
• Ensure solutions meet security, resiliency, compliance, and performance standards.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Client facing

Consulting experience

Job description

NTT DATA Services is seeking a Financial Services Payments Consulting Manager to lead and shape end-to-end payment solutions for financial institutions, processors, and fintechs in the US. The role emphasizes architecture, modernization, and client-facing delivery across ACH, wires, SWIFT, and real-time rails.

A strong background in payments strategy and collaboration with diverse teams is essential. The position offers opportunities to influence industry trends, drive growth, and deliver