Senior Technical Product Manager - Digital Identity

About Us

The European Payments Council (EPC) is a leading financial sector association dedicated to the standardisation and harmonisation of electronic payments across 41 countries and territories. The EPC develops and manages key European payment schemes, including SEPA Credit Transfer, SEPA Instant Credit Transfer, One-Leg Out Instant Credit Transfer, and SEPA Direct Debit (Core and Business-to-Business), as well as payment-related schemes such as Verification of Payee (VOP), SEPA Payment Account Access (SPAA), and SEPA Request to Pay (SRTP). These schemes serve millions of citizens and businesses across SEPA every day. In addition, the EPC operates the EPC Directory Service (EDS), a pan-European directory designed to foster reachability and interoperability for API-based payment schemes. Our mission is to promote European payments harmonisation and integration through innovative payment schemes and standards. Our organisation is dynamic and agile, coordinating payment experts and working closely with market participants, regulators and overseers.

Position Overview

We are looking for a Senior Technical Product Manager – Digital Identity to join our Product Management team in Brussels, on a permanent contract, reporting to the Director General. You will provide EPC with in-house expertise on digital identity and its application to payments, in particular the strong customer authentication (SCA) requirements that apply to SEPA payment schemes.

You will contribute to the EPC involvement in the standardisation of the SCA based on the EU Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet). You will monitor the wider eIDAS 2.0 framework and related regulatory and technical standards, alongside the SCA framework under PSD2 and the Payment Services Regulation (PSR). You will assess what this means for EPC’s schemes, engage with European institutions, standard-setting bodies and digital identity ecosystem stakeholders, and support EPC working groups in their activities.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Product Management

EPC schemes’ functional specifications on digital identity and SCA and translate them into technical specifications and implementation guidelines as necessary leveraging industry standards such as RESTful APIs, JSON, eIDAS adopted standards such as OpenID Connect, OAuth, related IETF specifications, etc.

Contribute to and consolidate expert input on technical specifications

Track the technical and operational impact of the SCA requirement under PSD2 and the PSR, EBA Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) alongside eIDAS 2.0.

Help EPC groups assess how digital identity developments affect the robustness and effectiveness of EPC’s schemes for payment service providers (PSPs).

Delivery and planning

Contribute to the development of annual workplan and roadmap for EPC’s digital identity activities.

Coordinate EPC’s input into consultation cycles: collect input from EPC members, oversee EPC’s responses to public consultations and prepare recommendations for for management and Board review.

Manage calls for interest and requests for proposals related to digital identity work, and onboard colleagues joining it.

Stakeholder engagement and external cooperation

Engage with the European Commission, the European Banking Authority and the European Digital Identity Cooperation Group, and follow the EUDI Wallet Large Scale Pilot consortia working on payments and banking use cases.

Work with EPC legal counsel on compliance, including competition law and data protection (GDPR), and with colleagues on security and risk management.

Represent EPC in international standards bodies and working groups relevant to digital identity as necessary.

Governance, coordination and communication

Draft terms of reference for digital identity working groups, prepare and manage their meetings, and report to the relevant EPC governance body and the EPC Board.

Coordinate internally to align workstreams and avoid duplication.

Work with the EPC Communication Manager to keep EPC’s digital identity webpages, FAQs and updates clear and current, and organise workshops and webinars.

Why Join Us

A unique opportunity to shape and influence how digital identity is adopted in European payments

Direct exposure to and interaction with EU authorities and key market stakeholders

A challenging senior role within a highly respected international organisation setting standards for the EU payments sector

Collaboration with leading experts in payments and EPC schemes

A competitive compensation package, aligned with experience and profile