Domain Specialist

Overview

Payment Domain Specialist (Business+Data)

Ensure the business semantics of payments—not just data structures—are preserved across the migration. This role bridges business logic, data integrity, and compliance.

• Define authoritative meanings for:
  Authorizations, Captures, Settlements, Reversals, Refunds, Chargebacks; clarify lifecycle state machines and in variants.
• Data Contract Definition:
  Define payment-specific CRUD contracts, query expectations, reconciliation in variants, validate idempotency requirements.
• Edge Case Validation:
  Identify high-risk scenarios:
  Partial failures, Duplicate messages, Retries, Reconciliation mismatches; validate that the new model supports these cases.
• Compliance & Audit:
  Ensure auditability requirements are preserved:
  Immutable records, Traceability, Reconciliation accuracy.
• Testing & Certification:
  Participate in contract testing and workload replay validation; sign off on domain readiness.

• 8–12+ years in payments domain (issuer, acquirer, processor, fintech)
• Deep understanding of:
  Payment flows, Financial reconciliation, Idempotency and retry semantics
• Experience working with engineers and architects
• Strong data literacy (tables, joins, event flows)

• Payment domain data contracts
• Lifecycle state diagrams
• Reconciliation rules
• Edge case test scenarios
• Domain readiness certification

Salary Range: $120,000-$130,000 a year

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