Solution Architect

Role : Solution Architect

Location: Northampton

Industry: Banking

Job Description:

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 RESPONSIBLITIES:

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.