Possibility of remote work: Hybrid, 2 days a week onsite (Northampton) and the rest of the days can be remote.
Contract duration: 6months, with potential for further extension.
Location: Northampton

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JOB DETAILS

Role Title: Solution Architect (Cards)

Required Core Skills:

• Azure
• AWS
• 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.