Technical Analyst

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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
• 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?

We offer a highly competitive benefits and salary package, opportunities to work for leading global companies, ongoing support and training, and a culture that respects human rights and supports well‑being.

Equal Opportunity Employment

We are committed to respecting human rights and building a better future by helping people and the environment. We invest in people and their well‑being. 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. Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic.