Technical Analyst-Banking, Cards & Payments domain

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Role

Technical Analyst

Location

Monterrey, Guadalajara, Queretaro and Mexico City

Job description

Looking for an experienced Engineer to design, implement, and maintain payment processing systems across the LATAM region. The ideal candidate will bring deep knowledge of card payment protocols, transaction lifecycle management, and bilingual communication.

Must have skills

• Banking, Cards & Payments domain
• "ISO 8583 (Core protocol for building and parsing financial transaction messages between payment systems. Used daily in developing, debugging, and testing card authorization and switching flows.
  C++, Oracle DB, Linux"
• Knowledge of Base 24 is a plus
• Payments clearing & settlement (Applied when managing end-to-end fund movement — from transaction capture through interbank clearing to final settlement. Critical for ensuring reconciliation accuracy and resolving discrepancies.)
• Message switching & transaction flow (Essential for designing and troubleshooting the routing logic that directs authorization requests between acquirers, issuers, and card networks. Applied in system architecture, incident resolution, and performance tuning.)
• Languages: Spanish (Advance), English (Intermediate).Even if we get profiles only spanish speaking we can consider.

Nice to have skills

• Card scheme certification (Advantageous when interfacing directly with Visa, Mastercard, or other scheme networks during certification and compliance testing. Reduces onboarding time and increases credibility in scheme-level discussions)
• Store & forward (Beneficial for handling offline transaction queuing scenarios — storing transactions locally when the network is unavailable and forwarding them once connectivity is restored. Relevant in intermittent-connectivity LATAM deployment environments.)

Why Cognizant?

• Improve your career in one of the largest and fastest growing IT services providers worldwide
• Receive ongoing support and funding with training and development plans
• Have a highly competitive benefits and salary package
• Get the opportunity to work for leading global companies
• We are committed to respecting human rights and build a better future by helping your minds and the environment
• We invest in people and their wellbeing.
• We create conditions for everyone to thrive. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, age, disability, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or for any other reason covered.

Igualdad de Empleo y Política de Acción Afirmativa:

Cognizant es un empleador que ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Todos los solicitantes calificados recibirán consideración para el empleo sin distinción de sexo, identidad de género, orientación sexual, raza, color, religión, origen nacional, discapacidad, estado de veterano protegido, edad o cualquier otra característica protegida por la ley

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