Job Description
We are seeking a skilled and experienced Solution Architect to join our dynamic payments environment.
This role involves working within a highly skilled team of payment solution architects, supporting various payment types across multiple jurisdictions and leveraging a wide range of technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
* Shape and agree on solution architectures, ensuring alignment with architecture roadmaps, strategies, principles, and standards.
* Produce the required solution architecture artefacts, such as Architecture Designs, inputs for the Architecture Review Board, and Security Reviews, and present them for approval.
* Guide solution designs, collaborating with stakeholders at all levels to ensure that the identified solutions are understood, aligned with business needs, fit for purpose, and deliver value for investment.
Requirements:
* PAYMENTS EXPERTISE: Strong knowledge of cross-border and domestic payments, including SWIFT messages, ISO20022 standards, and payment lifecycles.
* TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY: Proven experience in solution architecture, with expertise in middleware technologies such as JBOSS, WebSphere, MQ, and Mulesoft, as well as database technologies like Oracle Exadata and MongoDB.
* SOLUTION DESIGN: A demonstrated track record of solution design experience, ideally with expertise in enabling payment engines from the Finastra Suite of products (GPPSP, GPPHC, GPPMP, and GPP Fusion).
* RISK MANAGEMENT: Strong understanding of risk management and the ability to address risk considerations in solution designs.
* CORE SKILLS: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make technical conversations relevant to business stakeholders and vice versa.
Working Model:
This role follows a hybrid working model with on-site requirements in Dublin approximately every two months for team meetings, with occasional attendance at workshops as needed.
The successful candidate will be able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills.