Afreximbank: Integration Consultant (PAPSS) – Cairo, Egypt

CA Global Headhunters has been retained by the Afreximbank based in Cairo, Egypt to recruit for this position.For more information on the Afreximbank please visit their website. Should you meet the minimum requirements and wish to apply for the position please apply directly to CA Global Headhunters.

The Pan African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) is the first centralized payment market infrastructure for processing, clearing and settling of intra-African trade and commerce payments. PAPSS is an arm of the African Export- Import Bank (Afreximbank), which is a pan-African multilateral financial institution, established in 1993 for the purpose of financing and promoting intra and extra African trade. Afreximbank operates and manages PAPSS.

PAPSS is now ready to start operations and is looking for experienced individuals, who are innovative, entrepreneurial and imbued with the passion and commitment to transform Africa through trade.

Reference Number: SRBR-ICPAPSS

Responsibilities:

The candidate must have a detailed real-world understanding of retail payment systems gained in a bank or similar financial institution such as Switches and Payment Service Provider (PSPs) with vast experience in instant payments.

The Integration Consultant will lead technical engagements with prospective PAPSS participants (Banks, switches & PSPs) and come up with the system integration requirements and other specific features of the PAPSS product.

This includes but not limited to the integration of PASS to different Core banking applications (Flexcube, Finacle, T24 etc) and Payment interfaces in ISO20022 standard.

Information Security and Risk Management

• Conduct detailed analysis for Instant Payment integration requirements provided by the Product Owner
• Work closely with the other technical teams to explain and elaborate the Instant Payment requirements, and ensure that the acceptance criteria are clearly and unambiguously stated
• Creating technical documentations such as manuals, requirements, and design specification documents for PAPSS
• Support the team through the integration process and answering questions from other teams and customers on the PAPSS Instant payment system
• Coordination, design, development, deployment, and third-level support of a robust, reliable, and highly available PAPSS Instant Payment Gateway built on proven messaging and web service technologies.
• Technical coordination, interface design, end-to-end development, deployment, and support of PAPSS Instant Payment systems

Requirements: Qualification and Skill

• Graduate degree and professional qualifications are required.
• Relevant Bachelor's and Master’s degree in Computer Science, Management, Engineering or related fields.
• Detailed practical experience of multiple retail Payment Schemes — Instant Payment, SCT Inst, SEPA, FPS, RTGS BAGS, CHAPS, SWIFT etc.
• In-depth understanding of IS020022 payment messages and the usage of specific fields within those messages
• Technical focus and API experience
• Full range of lifecycle experience workflow automation flows and automated/improved BA and testing processes
• Awareness of industry initiatives impacting the Instant Payments environment.
• Use of UML diagrams including Sequence Diagrams and State Diagrams using a modelling tool (or Visio)
• Creation and elaboration of User Stories using industry best practices
• Proven experience in payment or software delivery projects
• Comfortable with IBM Integration Bus, IBM MQ, Java, Oracle, AIX
• Excellent verbal and written communication in English. Knowledge of any of French, Portuguese and Arabic is an advantage.

Benefits and Contractual information:

• 1 Year Contact
• USD tax exempt salary
• Suitably qualified candidates from all African nationalities are encouraged to apply

Closing Date: 3rd of February 2022

CA Global will respond to short-listed candidates only. If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful however your CV will be kept on our database for any other suitable positions.