Payments Solutions Consultant

Recruiter
Thales
Location
Cambridge
Salary
Competitive
Posted
26 Apr 2015
Closes
28 Apr 2015
Sectors
IT
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Payments Solutions Consultant

The Advanced Solutions Group (ASG) is the professional services department of Thales E-security (TeS), offering cutting-edge services to complement the cryptographic products sold by TeS. The role is both exciting and varied, providing an opportunity to work with both a wide variety of technologies and intelligent, challenging customers.

Thales E-security is a leading global provider of data protection solutions with more than 40 years' experience securing the world's most sensitive information. Our customers-businesses, governments, and technology vendors with a broad range of challenges use Thales E-security products and services to improve the security of applications that rely on encryption and digital signatures.

A Solutions Consultant is responsible for delivering standard ASG service offerings to customers across EMEA, including:

- deployment and integration of TeS products

- customer training and product evangelising

- writing proposals for future projects

- providing security advice to TeS customers

Key Responsibilities and Tasks

- Delivering customer training on TeS products, specifically the payShield family of HSMs.

- Onsite installation and configuration of TeS products, specifically the payShield family of HSMs.

- Advising customers on security best practices, including minimising attack vectors and supporting high resilience.

- Writing business-winning proposals based on customer requirements.

- Helping achieve the annual revenue targets for the ASG team.

- Pro-actively improving consultancy practices based on personal experience and customer feedback.

- Actively contribute to and keep abreast with the payShield product roadmap.

- Keep abreast with current trends in the security industry.

Skills and Experience

Essential

- Solid background of payments security: Symmetric cryptography, symmetric key management and storage, payment industry applications and best practices

- Solid knowledge of EMV and experiences with systems migration from mag stripe to EMV

- Solid knowledge of the credit card personalization process

- Solid understanding of the principles of application security, including public key infrastructures

- Confident and experienced in customer-facing situations, including ability to present to large audiences

- Able to express complex ideas in a manner befitting the audience. Able to engage with all levels in a business

Qualifications

Essential

- Degree, or equivalent higher educational qualification, in a related technical field, eg Computer Science, Engineering etc, and/or a suitable period of experience working directly with Hardware Security Modules

Desirable

- Qualification related to the field of IT security (eg CISSP, CEH, CAP, CISMP, or equivalent)

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