Payments Application Analyst

Payments Application Analyst - Contract

Location: Harbour Exchange, London (Hybrid - 3 days onsite)
Contract: 6 months
Rate: £300-£350 per day (Umbrella)

Our client, a leading global financial institution, is seeking an experienced Payments Application Analyst to join their London team. This is an excellent opportunity to work within a complex, enterprise-scale payments environment, supporting key non-production platforms and contributing to major technology and payment solution initiatives.

The Role

You will support and manage all technical aspects of non-production environments for core payments applications, including the bank's central payments services hub and instant payments systems. This position involves close collaboration with internal IT teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and QA, ensuring smooth technical change, deployments, testing readiness, and issue resolution.

Key Responsibilities

• Support and maintain payments test environments across multiple technologies
• Manage technical delivery for payments-related projects
• Work with vendors on deployment, integration, and troubleshooting
• Maintain technical documentation and installation guides
• Oversee software deployments into test environments
• Coordinate technical changes, outages, and readiness with QA & PMs
• Support unit testing and assist with payments business analysis
• Participate in project meetings, reporting, and change planning

Tech & Tools You'll Work With

• Oracle Database
• IBM MQ, IBM WebSphere
• IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler
• UrbanCode Deploy
• eG Performance Monitoring
• JIRA

Interfacing Systems Include

Anti-fraud, sanctions screening, trade finance, treasury, loans, Oracle AP, SWIFT systems, and more.

What We're Looking For

• Strong understanding of payments (SWIFT, TARGET, SEPA)
• Experience with SWIFT ISO 20022 formats
• Proven ability to work in complex, multi-team environments
• Excellent analytical, communication, and organisational skills
• Ability to manage workloads, prioritise effectively, and work with urgency
• Clear, structured approach to problem-solving

Additional Information

Candidates must show evidence of the above in their CV to be considered.

Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you.

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