[Remote] Financial Services Payments Consulting Manager Job Details | NTT DATA Services

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NTT DATA North America is seeking a Financial Services Payments Consulting Manager to join their team. This role involves leading initiatives in payment strategy development, technology implementation, and operational optimization for clients in the financial services industry.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a payments functional manager to design end-to-end solutions across ACH, wire payments, SWIFT, and real-time payment rails (e.g., RTP, FedNow)
• 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

• 8+ years of experience in payments, banking technology, or financial services systems
• 4+ years of proven 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
• Ability to rapidly assess a clients problem/need and provide fact based recommendations (target operating model)
• Ability to translate business requirements into clear, pragmatic solutions
• Strong communication skills with experience working in client-facing or consulting roles
• Payments experience solutioning leveraging AI
• Experience with payment hubs, switches, or core banking integrations
• Knowledge of ISO 20022 and large-scale payment modernization programs
• Cloud architecture experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Benefits

• Incentive compensation based on individual and/or company performance
• Company benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance with an employer contribution
• Flexible spending or health savings account
• Lifeand AD&D insurance
• Short and long termdisability coverage
• Paid time off
• Employeeassistance
• Participation in a 401k program with company match
• Additionalvoluntary orlegally-requiredbenefits

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