Manager, Payments and Card Processing Systems

-Western Union Madrid, Spain Posted 12 hours ago Permanent Competitive **Manager, Payments and Card Processing Systems - Madrid, Spain** Do you have a deep understanding of card processing systems, real-time payment networks, and related technologies, as well as experience in managing back-end engineering teams? Are you a strong leader with experience in managing both direct and cross-functional teams effectively? Do you have a good knowledge of the card space across Visa, Mastercard, and other providers? If so, why not consider joining Western Union's new Digital Banking hub in Madrid?**Western Union powers your pursuit.** The Manager, Payments and Card Processing Systems will manage regional back-end Card engineering team, which is responsible for building (engineering) and managing the card processing, card issuing, real time payment network, SEPA / SWIFT, PLAID and additional pay-in and pay out systems.**Role Responsibilities** - Set up card processing and card issuing across the assigned region. - Integrate card processing systems into existing payment rails to enable seamless interfaces across channels. - Engineer and develop card processing capabilities to fund transactions via cryptocurrency. - Manage and engineer real-time payments solutions and expand new pay-in and pay-out channels. - Ensure that the back-end development team follows standard SDLC and PLC procedures and processes. - Collaborate with the Project Manager and other stakeholders to plan and schedule product releases. - Proactively suggest areas for improvement and enhancement, working with managers and peers. - Propose the most optimal technical solutions to drive industry "best-in-class" KPI results. - Lead Agile development processes at scale and lead a regional team of Card back-end Engineers. - Build and lead a talented team of card (back-end) engineers. Recruit, develop, and mentor world-class engineering talent. - Be a culture champion on the team and across the company. - Build daily, weekly, and monthly card processing, card issuing, and settlement solutions. - Work with outsourcing vendors on resource budget and allocation. - Troubleshoot integration issues and coordinate issue resolution with operations, functional, and technical teams. - Integrate new technologies into the Digital Ecosystem. **Role Requirements** - A degree in Computer Science or related fields. - Strong, proven leadership skills are required to manage both direct and cross-functional teams effectively. - Ability to motivate and drive results in a large indirect sphere of influence and think outside the box. - Excellent communication verbal and written skills enabling effective management and talent development, both for direct and indirect teams. - Ability to communicate updates in a concise fashion to various levels of management. - Ability to execute roadmap across the organization. - Knowledge of the card space across Visa, Mastercard and other providers. - Knowledge of pre-paid card business and how to issue cards to receivers with the ability to offer re-loadable cards. - Knowledge and experience working software tools, platforms, and processes required to support development in and around MuleSoft, Platform Expert level Experience with SOAP/REST web service. - Expert knowledge of databases and related tools and utilities (as applicable above); problem-solving skills and proven record of working well in a team environment. - Have good architecture design and scalability problem solving experience. - Experience working with card issuer processor platforms like Marqeta, Fiserv, Tsys and network schemes. **We make financial services accessible to humans everywhere. Join us for what's next.** Western Union is positioned to become the world's most accessible financial services company - transforming lives and communities. To support this, we have launched a Digital Banking Service and Wallet across several European markets to enhance our customers' experiences by offering a state-of-the-art digital Ecosystem. More than moving money, we design easy-to-use products and services for our digital and physical financial ecosystem that help our customers move forward.- **Benefits** - Your Spain specific benefits include: - 25 days annual leave - plus 14 public holidays - Comprehensive life & medical cover - including dependents. - Contributory pension plan - Preventative Care Assistance programJob ID JR0113820