UK&I Solution Architect

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.

About Us

Global Payments is a Fortune 500 worldwide payment technology and software company, providing the world’s leading complete commerce ecosystem to businesses of every size. Our unique, connected infrastructure serves every dimension of commerce, carrying billions of transactions every year—safely and seamlessly.

Purpose:

Support the business in the definition and delivery of the technical requirements and solutions to meet the business outcomes or strategy.

What you will be doing:

Work closely with the business to define technical requirements to support and deliver on the business objectives. You will act as a bridge between the business and technical teams to ensure that the design of solutions ultimately delivers the expected business outcome.Responsible for converting business requirements into an architecture and design that will become the blueprint for the solution being created. This role also includes the definition of standards, best practices and principles to be applied and ensuring solutions are designed in alignment with these. You will also support the business in the definition of the technical vision to meet the current and future business strategy. A strong technical background is required, together with a clear focus on business goals and product objectives.

What qualities you will bring:

Understand how technology can be used to solve a given business problem

Understand the problems we are helping our customers overcome

Work with the business to define, design and estimate solutions

Prepare guidance, requirements, and high-level design documentation and ensure that the end product is aligned to the business strategy and overall enterprise architecture standards

Guide development teams on the decisions made and the reasons for these

Participate in collaborative architectural discussions

Define the overall technical vision and creation of architectural designs for a particular solution

Work closely with both business and technology teams to ensure solutions are in line with our technology strategy

Communication Skills:

Software engineering literacy and communication skills

Strong customer focus and ability to think about the impact of actions on the customer

Ability to present technical concepts and specific solutions to internal teams in a clear, concise and easily understood manner

Excellent active listening skills that enable you to understand the goals and challenges to craft meaningful solutions

Good interpersonal and facilitation skills: experienced in stakeholder management across different levels from working level to senior management.

Technical Expertise:

8+ years of experience working in technology

Payment industry knowledge & experience

Avid technologist, with expertise in designing software solutions

Capable of understanding and solving complex technical concepts

Demonstrated collaboration skills along with the ability to influence without authority

Knowledge of key architecture principles and design patterns

Experience evaluating existing application design and making recommendations for enhancing applications to leverage technology and services

Working experience with modern Agile development and delivery methodologies as well as traditional Waterfall practices

Preferred Qualities

Detail oriented

Cautious

Consistent

Sense of craftsmanship

Ability to manage a project

Motivated self-starter

Approachable and willing to offer helpful solutions

Ability to search relentlessly for better solutions

Must handle constructive feedback well

Global Payments Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

Global Payments provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.

Interested in learning more about Global Payments and Our Family of Brands?

Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN) is a leading pure play payments technology company delivering innovative software and services to our customers globally. Our technologies, services and employee expertise enable us to provide a broad range of solutions that allow our customers to operate their businesses more efficiently across a variety of channels around the world.

Headquartered in Georgia with nearly 24,000 employees worldwide, Global Payments is a member of the S&P 500 with worldwide reach spanning over 100 countries throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. For more information, visit and follow Global Payments on Twitter (@globalpayinc), LinkedIn and Facebook.