Solution Architect [Cards and Payments, cloud, micro-services, ETL,

Key Skills: Cards and Payments, cloud, micro-services, ETL, API

We are hiring for Solution Architect for our client's project based at Northampton, UK - 2 days per week Onsite

Role details:

• Exposure to Cards, Loans, Current Account, Product processing
• Produce and Own the technology strategy and architecture for one or more domain areas in Consumer Banking & Payments eg Cards, Payment Gateways
• Defining the technology strategy, roadmaps and vision consistent with wider Barclays Group standards.
• Using enterprise architecture techniques, focusing on business outcomes, in conjunction with respective CIO, Business Architects and business stakeholders, to translate strategic business and technological goals.
• Ensuring that technology services are highly customer and client-centric in both providing innovative and progressive products and services, and in partnering with the Business Units to ensure their client and customer strategies are successfully achieved;
• Leading the evaluation of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the architecture for the domain
• Investigating specific technologies, conducting technical briefings and recommend next steps to Operations & Technology stakeholders at all levels. Researching relevant technologies and demonstrate their benefits by developing proof of concepts where necessary.
• You will be accountable for architecture services:
• Definition of the technology architecture and strategy for the domain areas in Consumer Banking & Payments with specific focus on Payment Gateways and Cards.
• Creation of target and transition architectures that enable the organisation to successfully pursue and realise business strategies.
• Reviewing Concept, End to End Solution including Functional and Technical designs, ensuring appropriate architectural governance approvals are obtained.
• Leading the evaluation of the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Supporting the implementation of resilient, scalable solutions for the business line.
• Ensuring Technology services processes and controls are designed to comply with group policies to ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
• Partnering with Engineers, Architects and broadly colleagues within O&T and Business community to coordinate strategies and technology investment recommendations
• Maintaining and tracking technical debt as a result of any changes to target state solutions to accommodate project
• Maintaining knowledge of relevant technologies at the core/internals levels in order to perform in Subject Matter Expert role
• Articulating and establishing best practices and anti-patterns in application of technologies in question

• Detailed knowledge of the Cards & Payments industry and the wider competitive environment (including history, trends, future development) to support formation of technology strategies that exploit innovation in this field
• Experience in architecting and delivering commercially proven, end to end solutions achieving complex business goals, including integration projects/programmes across disparate technologies, application/infrastructure integration within one or more areas of the CB&P domains capabilities is a pre-requisite
• Ability to provide an excellent customer/client experience, underpinned by a lean cost base, strong controls and a culture of collaboration, innovation and high performance.
• Very strong strategic vision.
• Real world architecture experience in banking/financial services is essential with significant practical experience of defining and implementing enterprise wide technical solutions
• Strong Technical and Engineering skills with hands-on experience in the design and implementation of complex, distributed technologies, cloud (AWS &/or Azure), micro-services, messaging, APIs, Data transformation, ETL, Monitoring tools, Infrastructure and Security solutions.
• The ability to analyse and distil complex information quickly, presenting to non-Technology colleagues in a clear and succinct manner.
• Understanding of key considerations in Secure systems & software design, Resilience and High-Availability patterns for mission-critical applications, including multi-data-centre deployments
• Exposure and experience of complex, distributed technologies, cloud, micro-services, messaging, APIs, Data transformation, ETL, Monitoring tools
• Hands on capability to work with the LA, Solution Architects, Designers and developers in supporting resolution of any critical issues