Senior Card Operations & M&A Integration Lead

ZP Group; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401k

Paid time off

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Sr. Mgr. - Card Operations & Strategy Integration to lead the migration and consolidation of acquired credit card portfolios across servicing platforms and networks.

This onsite role requires deep expertise in data mapping, testing, and production cutover. You will collaborate with Card Operations, Technology, Risk, Compliance, and external processors to define roadmaps, readiness plans, and risk strategies while driving operational excellence and automation

Qualifications

• 7+ years in credit card operations or financial services tech.
• Hands-on experience with card conversions, M&A integrations, and production cutovers.
• Experience with data mapping, transformation, and migration of large datasets.
• Experience with SIT/UAT testing and post-conversion remediation.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end technical integration and conversion activities for credit card portfolios acquired through mergers, acquisitions, portfolio transfers, and other strategic initiatives.
• Assess acquired card platforms, servicing environments, data structures, and operational workflows to define integration requirements, conversion strategies, dependencies, and risks.
• Lead card and member data migration activities, including data mapping, transformation, validation, reconciliation, portfolio balancing, and transfer between source and target platforms.
• Coordinate system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), conversion rehearsals, production cutover, and post-conversion stabilization, driving issue resolution and defect remediation throughout implementation.
• Partner across Card Operations, Technology, PMO, Risk, Compliance, Digital, Fraud, and external processors/vendors to integrate card servicing functions including billing, rewards, disputes, fraud, collections, and digital servicing.
• Develop and maintain integration roadmaps, conversion requirements, technical documentation, readiness plans, and risk mitigation strategies while identifying opportunities to automate and improve integration processes.

Skills

Credit card operations

Data migration

System integration

Testing (SIT/UAT)

Tools

SQL

ETL tools

FIS/TSYS

Visa/Mastercard processing

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Sr. Mgr. - Card Operations & Strategy Integration to lead the migration and consolidation of acquired credit card portfolios across servicing platforms and networks.

This onsite role requires deep expertise in data mapping, testing, and production cutover. You will collaborate with Card Operations, Technology, Risk, Compliance, and external processors to define roadmaps, readiness plans, and risk strategies while driving operational excellence and automation