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