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Head of Payments Solutions

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  • Level
    Lead
  • Job Field
    IT, DevOps, Back End
  • Employment Type
    Full Time
  • Contract Type
    Permanent employment
  • Salary
    from 90.000 € gross/year
  • Location
    Vienna
  • Working Model
    Onsite
  • Job Summary

    In this role, you co-lead the Payments Tribe and develop strategic IT roadmaps to optimize payment processes while collaborating closely with internal and external partners to ensure a reliable customer experience.

    Job Technologies

    Your role in the team

    • Co-lead the Payments Tribe with key business stakeholders to translate business strategy into innovative technology solutions.
    • Provide strategic leadership for the Payments Tribe's IT roadmap, ensuring alignment with business objectives for growth, stability, and innovation across Erste Group.
    • Drive the automation and optimization of payment processes to enhance efficiency and reliability.
    • Collaborate closely with other Tribes utilizing payment functions to ensure an excellent end-to-end customer experience.
    • Ensure the highest standards of security, reliability, and performance for all payment systems.
    • Stay abreast of emerging payment technologies and industry trends, proactively identifying opportunities for innovation.
    • Lead and develop a high-performing team of payment technology experts.
    • Manage relationships with external vendors and partners in the payment ecosystem.

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    Our expectations of you

    Qualifications

    • Proven engineering leader with expertise in modern software development practices in a complex, high-volume, multi-technology environment.
    • Deep expertise in payment systems architecture, integration, and operations.
    • Strong understanding of payment regulations, international standards (e.g., SWIFT, PSD2), and compliance requirements.
    • Strategic thinker who can define and implement a technology roadmap aligned with diverse business goals across Erste Bank and subsidiaries.
    • Excellence in building and maintaining relationships with business leaders, fostering joint management of the Tribe consisting of mixed teams.
    • Ability to lead and motivate integrated teams spanning business, IT, and external partners in a complex multi-entity environment.
    • Strong communicator who can translate between business and technical audiences.
    • Track record of delivering complex IT projects in highly regulated environments.
    • Passion for building stable, secure, and scalable platforms.

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    What we offer

    • Possibility to benefit and learn from our international, talented and passionate community at Erste.
    • Interest groups and clubs: Participate in discussions and get involved in projects. Numerous interest groups invite you to engage with a topic.
    • Health Centre - The Erste Campus operates a fully equipped health centre that offers all employees a high standard of medical services during working hours.
    • Employee benefits - Benefit from special conditions for financial services and insurances, supermarkets, clothing stores and many more.
    • Employee Referral Program - Become a talent scout for career opportunities in IT. We are rewarding every successful referral for Erste Digital.
    • A competitive and performance-related salary dependent on your professional and personal qualifications is granted - the minimum wage for this position in accordance with the respective collective agreement is EUR 90,000 gross per year. But this is just a formality, we are more than happy to discuss your actual expectations.

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    Benefits

    Higher Take-Home Pay

    Work-Life-Integration

    Food & Drink

    Health, Fitness & Fun

    Topics You Will Work On

    Job Locations

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    • Location Vienna

      Austria

    About Your Employer

    Erste Bank

    Erste Bank

    Wien

    The Erste Bank forms together with the savings banks one of the largest banking groups in Austria.

    Description

  • Language
    English
  • Company Type
    Established Company
  • Working Model
    Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
  • Industry
    Banking, Finance, Insurance
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    Head of Payments Solutions

    Salary
    from 90.000 € gross/yearEstimated net salary based on the gross salary in the job ad.from 57.083 € net/year
    Location
    Vienna
    Working Model
    Onsite
    Diversity
    Open for all genders
    English Only
    English only required

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