Senior SME - Card Issuing

About The Role:

• Join Enfuce at a pivotal moment as we build and scale our next-generation card processing platform. As a Senior Subject Matter Expert in Card Issuing, you will define and lead new card scheme integrations, work directly on certification artifacts, test cases and scheme (Visa, Mastercard) validation flows.

• This is a hands-on, highly influential role where deep card-issuing expertise meets platform leadership. You will work closely with architecture, product, and scheme partners to drive certifications, define standards, and ensure Enfuce’s processing capabilities are robust, compliant, and future-proof.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Utilize extensive experience in card issuing, chip profiles, EMV scripts, tokenization, and compliance across scheme ecosystems.

• Execute test cases and own the end-to-end certification and integration with card schemes (Visa, Mastercard), acting as the primary SME authority across internal teams and scheme counterparts, deeply analysing and resolving issues during certification and production.

• Lead process flows definition with software architects.

• Partner with scheme representatives and internal stakeholders to turn complex scheme rules into clear guidance that supports business needs, technical simplicity, and product decisions.

• Actively share domain knowledge with team members through delegation, mentoring, and documentation.

• Assist in migration topics and integration options with Visa/Mastercard.

• Serve as point of contact for the customer to support defining workflows and gathering requirements based on their business needs

• Identify opportunities for process and tool improvements, challenging leadership decisions when necessary.

• Advocate for the use of available tools from Mastercard and educate stakeholders on their benefits.

What You'll Bring:

• Proactive leadership and initiative-taking, demonstrated through examples such as test API and tokenization projects (MDES and/or VTS).

• Strong requirement elicitation skills, capable of questioning and clarifying requirements to ensure alignment with business needs.

• Extensive technical knowledge of payment schemes, EMV frameworks, and modern card-processing architectures.

• Proficiency in working with Visa and Mastercard scheme manuals, tools and simulators to complete tests.

• Experience using log analytics tools for monitoring and troubleshooting.

• Strong research skills and industry knowledge, staying updated through Mastercard and Visa seminars and training sessions.

• Ability to advise engineering and operation teams on issues and solutions.

• Ability to work with AWS tools and dive into engineering code base is a plus.

• High autonomy & ownership: We give you the freedom to own your work and trust you to make the best decisions for your projects.

• Top-tier talent: Join a team of industry experts and highly skilled professionals who are as passionate as you are about innovation.

• Unlimited growth potential: We support your ambition with plenty of room for personal and professional growth within the company.

• Flexible, remote work: Work from anywhere up to 30 days, in an environment that values flexibility and work-life balance.

• A supportive culture: You’ll be part of a team that encourages, motivates, and celebrates success together.
  

• We offer a flexible paid time off policy, providing up to 5 weeks of annual vacation days and paid family leave (subject to country regulations). Additionally, you can benefit from hybrid or remote work options, promoting a healthy work-life balance.

• To spend other than work-related time with your teammates, you get a team activity budget for three quarters a year. The fourth quarter is reserved for a company-wide event.