Solutions Architect

My Financial Services client is currently looking for an experienced Solutions Architect with strong Payments experience to join their team for a 6-12 month daily rate contract.

Skills required:

1. Solution design – deliver fit for purpose and effective designs

• Advanced knowledge and broad experience working on payment systems on software, infrastructure and integration architectures;
• Payments architecture – functional and technical knowledge including industry practices and regulations;
• Advanced knowledge on clearing, settlement, financial systems and payment instruments and payment life cycles within the financial industry;
• Understanding of various payment types – specializations per types will be considered (international vs domestic or high care vs low care for example). Ideally across payment types and mechanisms; and
• Design end-to-end payment solutions to meet business needs – solution design experience.

1. Strong communication skills
2. Presentation skills
3. Experience and knowledge working on large-scale projects to be able to provide inputs to:

• Project planning;
• Business requirement documents;
• Architecture summary documents;
• Information security inputs;
• Functional -and non-functional designs;
• Vendor/suppliers technical briefs;
• Application technical design on cloud infrastructure (hybrid cloud AWS, Mulesoft, JBOSS, Oracle, Containerization, future state Postgress & Mongo, Node JS and Kafka);
• Security requirements input;
• Logical design input, guidance and review; and
• Non-functional requirements determination, input, review.

1. Experience and skills to create, socialize, drive and present:

1. 1. Architecture Review Board packs
   2. Conceptual designs

ISO 20022 specific:

• Participate in building out channel payment services working closely with the API factory solution architects
• Participate in building out channel payment services working closely with the channel solution architects

SEPA Payments Scheme and GPP SP specific:

• SEPA payments regulations
• GPPSP (Finastra payment solutions which are ex GPP/Global Payplus, D+H payment engines experience/exposure in a solution design context

Excellent daily rates are on offer for the right candidate. Should you be interested please get in touch with me ASAP.