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Solutions Architect
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The Icon Payments Framework (IPF) provides institutions with faster and more cost-effective access to payments through an advanced and highly flexible payments specific platform which seamlessly integrates with core and back-office banking applications.
Our Solution Architects play a key role in the end-to-end solution design and engineering leadership for IPF client engagements from pre-sales through to go-live. With broad and deep technology background complimented by an excellent consulting repertoire, the Solution Architect will drive the solution road-map from a capability, technology, integration and infrastructure perspective.
About you:
Significant capability in the design & implementation of end-to-end application and technical architectures for highly concurrent, real-time transactional systems . Experienced in conceptual, application, integration, logical and physical modelling . Experience of analysing and implementing solutions to meet both functional and non-functional requirements . Previous hands-on experience with back-end development technologies (e.g. Java) and common software patterns + techniques . Experience across modern architectural / delivery standards and methods including Agile, TDD, BDD, CI/CD automation, DevOps practices, Cloud and Microservices Architecture . Technology enthusiast, avid follower of new technologies, design patterns and architecture styles . Experience and appreciation for the Payments Industry and regulatory landscape from both a technical, functional and business perspective . Familiarity with event-driven, reactive architectural patterns such as event sourcing, CQRS and hexagonal architecture . Security architecture awareness including identity management, authentication and role-based access design . Strong consulting and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to operate effectively in complex, multi-team client environments.
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What Do Our Solution Architects Do?
Supporting pre-sales proposals and propositions in the form of client meetings, approach and estimation for solutions. Understanding and eliciting clients' payments needs to produce high level solution overviews based around IPF . Translating business requirements and non-functionals into technical solution designs. Working with client, Internal Squads and Product Owners to create implementation features that can be coded by our engineering squads, with regular review sessions to ensure implementation meets the design . Conducting solution architecture reviews of existing system, providing impact analysis from IPF implementation perspective, and communicating the findings of the review back to stakeholders . Organising design authority workshops with client and IPF product stakeholders . Actively participating in internal and external technical governance committees. Govern IPF client implementation backlog from a technical and architectural perspective . Creating and maintaining structured solution documentation including integration views, deployment views, sequence diagrams and key design decisions . Engaging with the IPF product team to validate solution feasibility, communicate client requirements and ensure alignment with the product roadmap . Tracking and communicating architectural risks, issues and dependencies to keep the project team and stakeholders informed . Contributing to the IPF SA practice through knowledge sharing, pattern documentation and community engagement .
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What Do They Enjoy The Most?
Seeing the solutions we devise to problems in action with long-standing clients. Being supported to continually research, learn and refine specialist knowledge. Working in a truly collaborative environment where ideas and knowledge are freely shared.
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