Job Description
We are seeking a
Product Team Lead / Subject Matter Expert (SME)
to serve as a domain authority and execution lead within a fintech product organization. This role sits at the intersection of product, engineering, and operations, providing deep subject matter expertise while leading a small team responsible for delivering critical financial technology capabilities.
The ideal candidate has strong experience in financial systems such as payments, clearing and settlement, ledgering, or banking infrastructure
- Key Responsibilities
- Lead a small cross-functional team (analysts, developers, or product specialists) delivering fintech platform capabilities
- Serve as the domain SMEfor financial workflows such as:
- Clearing & settlement
- Payments processing
- Reconciliation and ledgering
- Trade lifecycle or banking operations
- Translate business and regulatory requirements into clear, actionable functional specifications
- Partner closely with engineering to ensure accurate system design and implementation
- Drive issue resolution across production, client onboarding, and operational support teams
- Review and validate product designs for financial accuracy, completeness, and compliance
- Act as escalation point for complex domain or product-related issues
- Ensure consistency and integrity of financial data flows across systems
- Required Qualifications
- Experience in fintech, financial services, or enterprise banking technology
- Strong domain expertise in at least one of the following:
- Payments or card networks
- Clearing & settlement systems
- Core banking or ledger systems
- Capital markets infrastructure
- Experience leading or mentoring small teams (formal or informal leadership)
- Strong understanding of end-to-end financial transaction lifecycles
- Ability to work closely with engineering teams in agile or hybrid delivery models
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience at a financial technology provider (e.g., Broadridge, DTCC, banks, or payment processors)
- Experience supporting production systems or client-facing implementations
- Core Competencies
- Deep financial domain expertise
- Technical fluency (not necessarily coding, but system understanding)
- Team leadership and execution ownership
- Strong communication across technical and business stakeholders
- Problem-solving in complex, high-stakes environments
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