The Payments and Screening Systems Technical Application Manager plays a crucial role in supporting the company’s payment and screening systems (Transaction and Customer) offerings, ensuring seamless execution of end-to-end payment processes and timely compliance with regulatory requirements. This position requires a deep understanding of the payments value chain, related information architectures, and ICT solutions. 

Your role:

Key Responsibilities:

Payment Operations & Expertise:

• Manage application lifecycle
• Establish/Optimize end-to-end payment operations, including Instant Payments, SEPA, TARGET2, SWIFT, and ISO 20022 processes.
• Ensure operational excellence: Timely cut-offs, error resolution, reconciliation, and cloud-based services (e.g., SWIFT Service Bureaus).
• Manage sanctions screening to meet AML and regulatory standards, with a proactive approach to evolving risk and sanctions lists.Develop and optimize end-to-end payment processes including Instant Payments, SEPA Payments, TARGET2, SWIFT, ISO20022.

Business and Product Development:

• Contribute to the development and enhancement of payment products and services tailored to customer needs.
• Collaborate with product teams to design innovative payment solutions and support go-to-market strategies.

Information Architecture & ICT Solutions:

• Databases & Data Layers: Fair understanding of relational databases (mostly MSSQL)
• Scripting & Automation: Use scripting languages like Python, Java or shell scripting for automation, system integrations, and orchestration.
• Load Balancing & High Availability: Fair understanding of load balancing solutions (e.g., HAProxy, NGINX, F5)
• Fair understanding of message queuing and file transfer solutions (MQ, SFTP, etc.)
• OS: Linux/Windows administration experience
• Security & Certificate Management: Oversee TLS/SSL certificate lifecycles—including issuance, renewal, trust management—and integrate with public key infrastructure (PKI).
• Network: Will be able to understand and comprehend the network landscape and firewalling infrastructure

Compliance and Risk Management:

• Stay abreast of and enforce evolving regulatory frameworks—PSD2, AML/CFT, sanctions screening, PCI DSS, etc.
• Drive best practices in payment screening, leveraging automation, AI/ML, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Ensure auditability—maintain comprehensive logging, documentation, and reporting to satisfy compliance and regulatory audits.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Development:

• Act as a bridge between technical, compliance, and business teams, ensuring that architectural and regulatory considerations align with business needs.
• Able to understand and contribute to architectural decisions

Who are we looking for?

A colleague open-minded, very curious by nature and passionate about your job. You are not afraid to handle various tasks at the same time and meet tight deadlines. You are thinking proactively and always a step ahead, finding solutions with both internal and external stakeholders. You are a cooperating person who listens and invests in the work & persons to achieve common goals. You must naturally think out of the box and navigate in a fast changing and complex environment by questioning the how & the why.

Skills/Qualifications:

Technical Expertise:

• Experience in managing payment systems—including SWIFT, Instant Payments, SEPA, ISO 20022.
• Familiarity with screening systems (anti-fraud, sanctions): understanding AML/CFT frameworks, sanctions list updates, ISO standards, and risk-based screening approaches
• Technical background in:
  
  • Databases (SQL)
    
  • Scripting (Python, Java, Shell)
    
  • Load balancing & high availability architecture
    
  • TLS/SSL certificate and security infrastructure
    
  • IAM (OIDC, oauth2, ldap, etc.)
  • Nice to have:
    
    • Java and Python programming experience.
      • Familiarity with low-code development platforms.
      

Regulatory Knowledge

• Familiarity with relevant European payment regulations, including but not limited to PSD2 and AML directives.
• Understanding of risk and compliance frameworks in financial services.

Change Management

• Ability to proactively support and implement efficient change management by correctly assessing the business outcome versus change impact in respect with applications related changes and incidents

Leadership and Communication:

• Proven ability to influence and guide organizational decision-making
• Strong presentation and stakeholder management skills
• Excellent communication skills with ability to liaise across technical, business, and compliance stakeholders

Other

• General knowledge of banking applications in different business areas (core banking, document management, payments systems, corporate / retail systems, compliance, treasury, finance etc.)
• Vendor management
• Knowledge of software developments methods and Agile methodologies like Scrum
• Knowledge of Atlassian stack tools Jira and Confluence
• Strong communication skills and an international outlook
• Deals effectively with pressure, remains calm, objective and in control in stressful situations
• Ability to work under pressure

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Business, Information Technology, or a related field.
  
• 5+ years of experience in payments, banking, or financial technology preferably in financial sector or banks more specifically
• Relevant certifications are a plus

Our organization:

Work at Garanti BBVA International
Garanti BBVA International (“GBI”) is a mid-sized European bank established in Amsterdam, the Netherlands since 1990 and serves to corporate and institutional and retail clientele. GBI is a wholly owned subsidiary of Turkiye Garanti Bankasi A.S. (Garanti) and has presence in Germany, Switzerland and Turkey. Our ultimate parent is BBVA. Aa dynamic “global boutique” bank, Garanti BBVA International offers fast, accurate, innovative, tailor-made and country-specific financial solutions in selected business lines though highly skilled and diverse talent management. We embrace creativity, are centered towards teamwork and oriented to create multicultural environment as we believe this to be a crucial element. Our vision is future-oriented and as a one big team GBI strives for corporate excellence and goal achievement. By joining our organization, you will find yourself constantly challenged and must be prone to apply out-of-the box thinking.

Life at Garanti BBVA International

GBI is a place for people who dream big and make their dream their goal. We look for people who will challenge the status quo in order to grow. We stand as one team, one family and together we are empowered to create our unique path, be agile, be curious and innovative. Strong partnerships ensure our success. Strong teams hold our foundation. We believe that diversity drives innovation and fosters personal development. We aim to create a working environment where employees are able to learn through support and coaching while contributing visibly to the success of bank.

Our Core Values

GBI is part of BBVA, an integrated and innovative financial institution that looks to the future, created with the mission of financing people’s dreams. That spirit continues to inspire us today and encourages us to transform people’s lives by helping them make the best decisions to fulfil their dreams. This mission is underpinned by our Purpose: “To bring the age of opportunity to everyone”. We live these values, which make us strong and allow us to achieve our purpose so we can keep creating opportunities.

Customer Comes First
We see our work from the customer's perspective, as we incorporate their point of view in every decision we make and always put their interests first. We meet our customer's needs in an agile way, overcoming any difficulties that arise.

Think Big
We want to amaze our customers with the best solutions to generate unique experiences. To achieve this, we set ambitious and inspirational challenges for ourselves, while questioning everything we do and posing new ways of doing things.

One Team
We are committed both to our individual role and the company's objectives as our own. We work as one team, trust our colleagues and break silos between units and hierarchical barriers.

Application:

If you are ready to join our team and contribute to the success of company, we encourage you to apply by submitting your resume and a cover letter. You have two options to apply:

 Click on the link below to access our online application portal and submit your application.

We appreciate your interest in our organization and look forward to reviewing your application. Should you have any questions or require further information, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Please note that we do not appreciate any acquisition efforts for this vacancy by recruitment agencies.