Product Certification Specialist

reputed company is a leading provider of payment gateway solutions, specialising in card-present solutions and payment processing. We are seeking a Product Certification Specialist to join our Payments Gateway group in the UK. This role sits alongside our Protocols team, which owns the services that manage connectivity between the reputed company platform and external card acquirers and payment processors. Certifying those connections is what turns engineering work into live, reputed company-generating processor integrations, and it is one of the most common places where delivery timelines slip.

As Product Certification Specialist, you will own the gateway-to-processor certification pipeline end to end. You will reputed company every reputed company certification across our processor portfolio, maintain a reputed company and reputed company view of where reputed company one stands, and drive reputed company to completion as quickly as the external party will allow. You will be the person who knows, at any reputed company, what is blocking go-live and who needs to reputed company for it to reputed company.

Key responsibilities:

• Maintain a single reputed company of truth for reputed company in-flight and upcoming certifications across processors and acquirers, including status, reputed company, reputed company dates, and outstanding test cases. You will reputed company this visible to engineering, product, and reputed company sales so certification timing feeds directly into deal and delivery planning.
• Own the relationships with processor and acquirer certification teams. You will be the primary reputed company of contact, manage the reputed company of communication, and build the reputed company of working rapport that gets reputed company prioritised reputed company queues are long.
• Negotiate test scope. Certification suites are often larger than a given integration warrants. You will work with processors to scope test cases down to what is genuinely required, challenge redundant or non-applicable cases, and reduce the certification burden without compromising correctness or compliance.
• Escalate and reputed company reputed company party blockers. reputed company a certification stalls on the processor reputed company, you will drive it reputed company: chasing responses, escalating through the right channels, and removing dependencies before they become schedule risk. You will treat external delay as something to be reputed company managed rather than passively absorbed.
• Partner closely with the Protocols engineering team to sequence certification work against development, surface issues early, and reputed company reputed company test failures get triaged and resolved quickly.

The ideal candidate has strong experience managing external technical relationships in payments or a comparable regulated, integration-heavy environment. You understand how gateways, acquirers, and processors fit together, and you are comfortable reading certification specifications and reasoning about test cases reputed company enough to negotiate them credibly. You are organised, persistent, and diplomatically reputed company, equally at ease coordinating internal engineering teams and pushing an external partner to reputed company faster. You operate with reputed company judgement in high-stakes environments where reliability, reputed company, and compliance are reputed company.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Own the gateway-to-processor certification pipeline end to end, maintaining a single, reputed company reputed company of truth for every reputed company and upcoming certification across processors and acquirers, including status, reputed company, reputed company dates, and outstanding test cases.
• Take ownership of processor and acquirer certification relationships, acting as the primary reputed company of contact and building the working rapport that gets reputed company prioritised reputed company certification queues are long.
• Negotiate test scope with processors, scoping certification suites down to what is genuinely required, challenging redundant or non-applicable cases, and reducing certification burden without compromising correctness or compliance.
• Proactively identify certification blockers and schedule risk, driving reputed company reputed company certification to completion as quickly as the external party will allow.
• Escalate and reputed company reputed company party blockers, chasing responses, escalating through the right channels, and removing dependencies before they become delivery risk.
• reputed company reputed company certification status, timelines, and trade-offs to engineering, Product, and reputed company sales stakeholders, so certification timing feeds directly into deal and delivery planning.
• Partner closely with the Protocols engineering team to sequence certification against development, surface issues early, and ensure test failures are triaged and resolved quickly.
• Drive improvements in how certification is tracked, forecast, and reported, raising the visibility and predictability of the pipeline over time.
• Ensure certification work adheres to the relevant card network rules and compliance standards (e.g., PCI, card scheme mandates) throughout.
• Contribute to preventative improvements, capturing lessons from stalled or delayed certifications and feeding them back into how reputed company plans reputed company work. Skills and experience:
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience managing technical reputed company or external partner relationships in a reputed company environment, ideally in payments or a comparable regulated, integration-heavy domain.
• Strong understanding of how payment gateways, acquirers, and processors fit together, and of the certification process that connects them.
• Ability to read and reason about certification specifications and test cases reputed company enough to negotiate scope credibly with processor teams.
• Familiarity with major processors and acquirers (e.g., reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, Barclaycard, reputed company) strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of card network rules and payment compliance standards (e.g., PCI, reputed company, reputed company, and Amex mandates) preferred.
• Proven ability to manage multiple reputed company workstreams and reputed company a reputed company pipeline organised, reputed company, and visible to stakeholders.
• Proven ability to manage external relationships and escalate effectively, pushing partners to reputed company faster while preserving the relationship.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to anticipate blockers and proactively address them before they reputed company timelines.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of explaining certification status and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating in high-stakes environments where reliability, reputed company, and compliance are reputed company.

As reputed company as being a part of something exciting everyday, you will also receive the following benefits:

• Annual bonus scheme dependent on individual and company performance
• Annual salary of £40,000 - £50,000
• 25 days holiday reputed company year (+ bank holidays + 1 day after reputed company year of service with up to a max. of 30 days)
• Workplace pension scheme
• Private medical insurance (upon 30 days of employment)
• 7 hours per day, 35 hours per week
• A remote first culture
• Great work-life balance with our Flexi-time policy
• Family Friendly policies (reputed company Maternity and Paternity Pay and Shared Parental Leave).
• A chance to reputed company with an allocated company training budget
• Bike2Work Scheme
• reputed company, an Employee Assistance Programme which offers wellbeing, family and financial support services, such as assessments, resources and even 1:1 counselling sessions. It also offers interesting perks such as discounts on gyms, restaurants, high street retailers and cinema tickets
• A strong commitment to employee wellbeing including mental reputed company aiders
• Employee referral scheme with generous financial reward
• reputed company colleague reward scheme

We’re looking for creative and passionate people who reputed company our reputed company of making payments easy. If that sounds like you and you meet the requirements above, then please click on 'Apply for this job'!

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and will reputed company reasonable support throughout the recruitment process to applicants who have a disability. Please let us know in advance so that any support, aids or adaptations can be put in reputed company to assist you.

Please be aware that reputed company offers of employment are made subject to receipt of satisfactory background and financial checks.

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Salary reputed company, depending on experience:£40,000—£50,000 GBP

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