Java Solution Architect

The Solution Architect will be responsible for creating technical solutions and leading initiatives for our business. You will provide technical leadership and solution engineering expertise to bring together all of our technology assets to create new and innovative products. These could be for our prepaid card processing system, mobile & web applications or our API suite. The scope for you will be broad, and may include infrastructure, software and security domain engineering as well working with customers to develop solutions and new product functionality.

Role

Key themes: Visible Leadership, Technical Depth, Good Communication and Proactivity

Responsibilities:

* Designing from the vision down to the application and infrastructure architecture level - supporting the Solution Architecture and Solution Engineering function.

* Being the principal SME and owning the roadmap for one of our foundational technologies such as Hadoop/Big Data, Finance Systems, Microservices Middleware, or API Integrations.

* Partnering with Product teams and other technology teams to contribute in setting technical strategy and roadmaps. Collaboration and initiative is key.

* Providing direction to technical leads on projects in work and reviewing designs.

* Initiating and leading What if', What next' and Why not' planning.

* Mentor and guide development teams across Prepaid Services.

* Research current and emerging technologies, and be an ambassador for new technologies.

* Initiation of Proof-of-Concept projects and drive innovative changes.

* Pre-sales support and customer-facing solution collaboration with our regional and product teams.

All About You

Essential knowledge, skills and experience:

* Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.

* Experience in API management, Big Data/Hadoop, containerized & cloud microservices.

* Strong communication skills -- both verbal and written, strong relationship and collaboration skills.

* Knowledge and understanding of Agile software engineering concepts and methodologies.

You:

* Hands-on, high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and able to function independently under pressure.

* You must be able to inform and lead through your designs and documents.

* Ability to quickly learn and implement new technologies, frameworks and tools.

* Able to support multiple concurrent activities and to interface with external / internal resources.

* Are an enthusiastic ambassador for new technology.

* You may bring diversity of perspectives from a varied technical career background.

Do any of these describe you? These are not essential, but will give you bonus points:

* Experience in delivering solutions to non-FI customers, Airlines, Fintechs or Transit Authorities.

* IT Architecture experience in Containerized applications, API design

* Frameworks and foundations: Apache Spark, Nifi, Java Spring

* Cloud and DevOps Architecture, especially via containerisation

* Experience of payment processing and tokenisation