Solution Architect

You will be responsible for providing technical support to the business, engaging with them to understand requirements, project effort estimation, converting requirements into an architecture and design that will become the blueprint for the solution being created and supporting architects in their detailed designs while ensuring governance, standards and processes are adhered to.

What You'll Do

• You will work with all stakeholders throughout the Product Development Life Cycle including engineering teams, enterprise architecture, agile delivery, product managers, project management and senior management. These stakeholders will be spread across the world including in North America, Europe, India, Asia-Pacific
• You will provide guidance on the future evolution of the platform to meet business and technical requirements
• Defining the overall technical vision of solutions and work collaboratively with other architects to bring designs to fruition taking on board their experience and knowledge
• Promote the IT vision within Product Management and the wider organisation
• Ensure governance processes are adhered to and progressed as appropriate

Who You Are

• Bachelor's Degree required in Computer Science or Engineering
• 10+ years of experience in software including 2+ years designing software solutions
• Proficiency in modern software cloud/hybrid/on-prem architecture, RESTful APIs and hands on experience with specific technologies including Java, C#, microservices, data stores/data bases and at least one cloud provider
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills including the ability to influence decision makers
• Experienced in working collaboratively with technical and non-technical colleagues to bring projects to completion
• Able to go beyond the requirements provided to understand the business need and thereby provide solutions which meet the current needs and are flexible
• Independent worker who can take direction and provide a solution

Nice to Have

• Experience with Java, C#, Google Cloud Platform and/or Azure, Databases, Docker/Kubernetes and Atlassian tools
• Knowledge of modern development best practices including CI/CD, microservices and REST APIs
• Experience working in an Agile environment with multiple development teams
• Experience and knowledge of the payments / merchant acquiring industry
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, prioritisation, decision making and relationship building skills