Program Management Consultant
Posted 3 days ago by Outsized
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Program Management Consultant at Outsized involves supporting complex payment platform migration initiatives for a leading organization in the UK payments and financial services sector. The consultant will lead or assist in large-scale processor, tokenization, data, scheme certification, and production cutover workstreams. Candidates should possess extensive experience in high-risk migrations within card payments and related environments, demonstrating the ability to manage cross-functional stakeholders effectively. The position requires a strong understanding of the UK payments market and the ability to operate independently in a fast-paced environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leads end-to-end processor migrations including scheme connectivity, transaction routing, and production cutover for card issuing/acquiring platforms.
- Manages token vault migration, network tokenisation integration, and PCI-DSS compliance across digital payment channels.
- Plans and executes large-scale data migration from legacy card systems, ensuring data integrity, reconciliation, and regulatory compliance.
- Manages payment scheme certification programmes, including test case execution, defect resolution, and go-live approval.
- Orchestrates production cutover for large payment platform migrations, managing go/no-go decisions, rollback plans, and cross-team coordination.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience in large-scale payment platform, card issuing, card acquiring, processor, or banking technology migration programmes.
- UK payments market experience, ideally across banks, fintechs, processors, payment schemes, or regulated financial services organisations.
- Hands-on knowledge of processor migration, tokenisation migration, data migration, scheme certification, and production cutover.
- Experience managing high-risk delivery workstreams across technology, operations, product, compliance, and external vendor teams.
- Strong understanding of payments regulation, operational risk, reconciliation, testing, and go-live readiness.
- Ability to work independently as an interim consultant or programme specialist in a fast-paced delivery environment.
- Experience with large payment scheme certification and exposure to PCI-DSS, token vault migration, network tokenisation, or digital payment channels.
- Experience with both issuing and acquiring platforms.
- Prior consulting, contractor, or independent delivery experience.
- Experience supporting migrations involving legacy card systems, payment processors, transaction routing, or production cutover planning.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Who are we? Outsized is a high-growth, well-funded disruptor in the fast-evolving talent economy. We focus on full-time contracts (remote or onsite), typically between 1–12 months. We help our talent upskill so they have better chances of landing their dream projects and charging fair rates. Outsized members also have access to an exclusive Community where they can connect with peers and experts, take part in live events, and find project collaborators.
Who are we looking for? Our client, a leading organisation in the UK payments and financial services sector, is seeking experienced Large Programme Migration Consultants to support complex payment platform migration initiatives across issuing and/or acquiring environments. The project requires consultants who can lead or support large-scale processor, tokenisation, data, scheme certification, and production cutover workstreams. The ideal consultants will have hands-on experience delivering high-risk migrations within card payments, banking, fintech, payment processing, or digital payments environments. They should be able to operate independently, manage cross-functional stakeholders, and support critical go-live activity in a regulated UK market context.
Key Activities
- Leads end-to-end processor migrations including scheme connectivity, transaction routing, and production cutover for card issuing/acquiring platforms.
- Manages token vault migration, network tokenisation integration, and PCI-DSS compliance across digital payment channels.
- Plans and executes large-scale data migration from legacy card systems, ensuring data integrity, reconciliation, and regulatory compliance.
- Manages payment scheme certification programmes, including test case execution, defect resolution, and go-live approval.
- Orchestrates production cutover for large payment platform migrations, managing go/no-go decisions, rollback plans, and cross-team coordination.
Your Background
- Strong experience in large-scale payment platform, card issuing, card acquiring, processor, or banking technology migration programmes.
- UK payments market experience, ideally across banks, fintechs, processors, payment schemes, or regulated financial services organisations.
- Hands-on knowledge of one or more of the following areas: Processor migration, Tokenisation migration, Data migration, Scheme certification, Production cutover
- Experience managing high-risk delivery workstreams across technology, operations, product, compliance, and external vendor teams.
- Strong understanding of payments regulation, operational risk, reconciliation, testing, and go-live readiness.
- Ability to work independently as an interim consultant or programme specialist in a fast-paced delivery environment.
- Experience with large payment scheme certification.
- Exposure to PCI-DSS, token vault migration, network tokenisation, or digital payment channels.
- Experience with both issuing and acquiring platforms.
- Prior consulting, contractor, or independent delivery experience.
- Experience supporting migrations involving legacy card systems, payment processors, transaction routing, or production cutover planning.