Solution Architect (Cards & Payment)

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Founded on the grounds of innovation – iXceed Solutions , is an ISO certified, leader in Talent and Digital recruitment solutions, serving fortune 100 companies globally. We have many global accolades to our credit – UK Enterprise Awards - HR Tech Startup of the year- Europe - 2022, UK IT Awards - Leading Talent & Digital Solutions of the Year 2022, Titan Awards- Entrepreneur of the Year -2023, Asia fastest growing HR tech companies in 2023, Iconic Brand of the Year in Staffing & Recruitment 2023, Top 4 The Most prominent Talent solutions firm to work with in 2024, Hottest HR Tech Startup by Business World, The Greatest Brands & Leaders Asia & GCC -2020 -2021 by AsiaOne and many more.

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Role: Solution Architect (Cards & Payment)

Location: Northampton , UK (Hybrid 2-3 days onsite/week)

Contract: InsideIR35

Rate: 445 GBP/Day

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.