Premier Switch Solutions S.C. (PSS) is a leading Electronic Payment Processing Company, established by major private banks of Ethiopia. The Company has implemented the first multi-institution shared-switch infrastructure to provide its member banks with a state of the art payment technology to drive ATM, POS, e-commerce, Mobile Banking and other payment channels and provide clearing of Debit/Credit card transactions for the banks. Currently, PSS has one vacant position stated below and would like to invite applicants who meet the qualification and required experience listed for this job opening.

Description of Duties

• Formulate and implement the strategic direction of the payment application.

• Develop policies, procedures and processes documents for the payment application and lead in their implementation through the continuous review.

• Oversee the design, setup, installation and integration of various systems, applications, or process designs for payment application or any outsourced technology and business process solutions to meet the business’ requirements and are compliant with PCI DSS and other relevant security standards.

• Build high availability and best performance of systems to meet the customer expectation.

• Manage vendor relationship and monitor all payment application support activities.

• Discuss with application vendors to implement fixes and issues that are logged to vendors portals.

• Establish users’ privilege and monitor user access management

• Ensure periodic payment system performance metrics are conducted.

• Guide to validate business intelligence reports

• Design system capacity planning and build business continuity.

• Lead maintenance, upgrade and migration of systems.

• Work with the relevant work units in the development of new products and services.

• Ensure application and logs backup, restoration, archiving and retention policy and procedures are properly implemented regularly.

• Prepare budget for the unit

• Support the Director application in the implementation of the corporate strategy.

• Provide training, coaching and mentoring of employees within the department towards effective career development.

• Involve in different payment application and other related projects.

• Prepare periodic reports

• Manage incidents timely as occurs

• Perform any other duties as may be assigned from time to time

  Attractive Salary and Benefit Packages

Qualification & Work Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in ICT, Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or a related field

• At least 8 years’ experience in IT

• Training in payment applications/core banking/payment gateway is preferable.

• Experience in payment switch applications/payment gateway/core banking is preferable.

How To Apply

Interested applicants who meet the required qualifications are invited to submit their updated CV and copies of relevant documents within 7 days of this announcement. 

We only accept applications sent via email stated below: 

• pss.hr@pss-ethiopia.com  or

• CLICK HERE

Please write clearly for which position you applied on the email subject line. 

NB. : Only short-listed candidates will be contacted