Overview

Role: Solution Architect

Location: Northampton

Industry: Banking

Essential | Must-Have Skills and Experience

• Expert in architecting solutions across Cards related technologies, Open Banking, Tokenization
• A proven track record of thriving in an unstructured, ambiguous environment; adept at varying own styles to influence the optimum outcome.
• Experience of directly managing a diverse set of stakeholders – technical, business and project - and influencing their conflicting objectives to deliver a pragmatic solution.
• Financial services business and applications knowledge.
• The ability to present complex technical ideas (both written and verbal), anticipate potential objections and persuade others to adopt the most appropriate view.

Preferred Skills And Experience

• Banking (retail) experience is preferred
• Experience of working in a highly regulated environment.
• Exposure to API design strategies both for internal and external customer usage
• Exposure to Cloud technologies. AWS Solution Architect certification – foundation level or higher
• Experience of working with service management teams or an understanding of ITIL principles.
• Application/Infrastructure/Enterprise Architect training and certification, e.g. TOGAF.
• Any experience with data architecture, data migration would be beneficial.

Primary Responsibilities

• Define and document technical solutions spanning Cards related applications / products and middleware platforms to customer-facing integration technologies
• Lead the liaison with business clients and wider business teams in helping to shape initial ideas into requirements that are sufficiently comprehensive to support effective system development.
• Support design and integration activity throughout the end-to-end software development lifecycle.
• Drive collaboration across the component design and build teams, ensuring that they understand and follow the defined design.
• Ensure that the technical integrity and quality of the applications and alignment to architecture strategy are maintained throughout delivery.