About the Solution:
Our client solutions provides financial institutions with faster and more cost-effective access to instant payments through an advanced and highly flexible payments specific platform which seamlessly integrates with core and back-office banking applications.
About the Role:
The Solutions Architect takes a key role in the end to end solution design for our clients, to deliver effective, custom products.. A candidate with a broad and deep technology background complimented by an excellent consulting repertoire. The Solution Architect will drive the solution road-map from a capability, technology, integration and infrastructure perspective.
Tasks:
· Supporting pre-sales proposals and propositions in the form of client meetings, approach and estimation for solutions
· Understanding and eliciting clients payments needs in meetings and workshops to produce high level solution overviews
· Translating business requirements and non-functionals into technical solution designs, which may include contextual, conceptual, logical and physical views of the architecture
· Working with client as well as Business Analysts, Product Owners and delivery team to create implementation features that can be coded by our engineering squads
· Conducting solution architecture reviews of existing system, and communicating the findings of the review back to stakeholders
· Actively participating in internal and external technical governance committees / authorities, producing well considered design decisions to unblock solutions as well as providing constructive feedback for others
· Acting in the capacity of coach or mentor to junior staff, enabling them to develop their knowledge and solution architecture skills
· Providing technical leadership through actions and taking ownership
Background:
· The ability to communicate effectively upwards (to business), downwards (to IT teams) and laterally (to peers, vendors, and client side staff)
· Significant capability in the design & implementation of end-to-end application and technical architectures for highly concurrent, real-time transactional systems
· Experienced in conceptual, application, integration, logical and physical modelling
· Experience of analysing and implementing solutions to meet both functional and non-functional requirements
· Previous hands-on experience with back end development technologies (e.g. Java) and common software patterns + techniques
· Experience across modern architectural / delivery standards and methods including Agile, TDD, BDD, CI/CD automation, DevOps practices, Cloud and Microservices Architecture
· Strong sense of ownership and self-motivation to deliver to timelines and manage expectations
· Experience and appreciation for the Payments Industry and regulatory landscape from both a technical, functional and business perspective