🚀 Be part of a movement to change the way Europe pays

You will be part of our mission at EPI to build and deliver a meaningful European payment solution.
Together, we want to enable a stronger European payment ecosystem by acting as both bridge and builder, delivering a payment solution for consumers across Europe.

🔎 What's in it for you

You are working in a big payment company but would like to join a more dynamic and smaller one? leave your highly hierarchical security or Framework team and have a bigger impact? You want to be a pioneer of a truly innovative payment project? Then this job might be for you.

A bit of context to let you figure out where we are standing right now: the EPI Certification and Approval Framework has been developed by the internal Scheme Management Team, to define the roles needed to run the Framework, the processes to be followed by these roles, the certification and approval objects of the EPI Certification and Approval, and the functional and security requirements to be met by these certification and approval objects. Currently, several EPI teams (Operations, Product, and Scheme Management) are creating detailed Certification documents for EPI members which specify how the certification is performed. These documents will be Annexes of the EPI Certification and Approval Framework.

💥 Your impact

You will implement all the roles needed to run the Framework and the processes defined in it, to make EPI’s certification and approval scheme fully operational as soon as possible. 

You will set up the EPI Security and Functional Certification Bodies and the Approval Body, as well as the administrative processes described in the above-mentioned documentation to issue EPI certificates and approvals for the defined certification and approval objects. 

You will coordinate the cooperation with the Legal Team to define the approval contracts and other tasks legally relevant.

You will cooperate closely with the EPI Operations and Product experts and with other EPI teams for further evolution and maintenance of the EPI Certification and Approval Framework. This applies, in particular, to: 

• the EPI test plan and test tool development,
• the implementation and maintenance of the functional testing and security evaluation for EPI members and for EPI’s own systems.
  
  

✅ If you had joined us last month, here’s what you could have done

You would have already started to build, together with other colleagues, the certification processes and procedures. But we are only in the early stages and you will be a key pillar in the upcoming work.

🕵🏻‍♀️ To succeed, you should meet at least 70% of these requirements

• Deep knowledge on :
  • payment schemes, including detailed experience in how to test and evaluate payment components.
    
  • compliance, certification and approval frameworks, roles and responsibilities.
• At least two years of experience in running a certification and approval framework.
• Organisational skills to set up the defined committees according to their tasks, to organise their launch, and to coordinate their operation.
• Excellent command of English; French and/or German fluency is a significant plus.
  
• Being a well-known person in the European Certification Ecosystem will be a plus as well.
  

🐝 About the team

You will report to Carmen, the EPI Chief Scheme Officer, who has an impressive international career of over 20 years in payments. In her team, you will closely work with Regine and you will also interact with colleagues of other areas of the company, such as Thierry, Antonio, or Viktor. You will meet some of them in the recruitment process

🪜 If this looks like you, the recruitment steps are:

1. A first call with one of our recruiters
2. An interview focused on the mission and your expertise
3. Possibly, a business case or a tech assessment
4. An interview focused on our values
5. Hopefully, an offer you can’t refuse
   
   

⛔ Turn back if …

• You’re looking for an already highly structured environment with no ambiguity
• You’re expecting to be promoted 6 months after your arrival
  

Otherwise apply!

€ Who are we?

The European Payments Initiative has a unique role in bringing together the various players in the payment industry. We are creating an innovative, future-proof payment solution designed to meet the needs of merchants, professionals, charities and other organisations that accept payments and to enhance the everyday lives of consumers in Europe.

We believe that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts; EPI acts as a bridge, giving banks and other payment service providers the opportunity to combine innovation efforts and to address shared challenges together. EPI is a catalyst for change, enabling banks, payment service providers, payment gateways and merchants to contribute collectively to the continued strength and resilience of the European Union.

We want to start and grow a new movement with the potential to change the way people across Europe pay in the future.

🫶 Our commitment to equal employment opportunities

EPI offers the same job opportunities to all, without distinction of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, social status, disability or age. EPI promotes the development of an inclusive work environment that mirrors the diversity of the clients our product is serving.