Enterprise Architect

Description

Description Develop the technology strategy and roadmap for the payments switching components of client's distributed payments network. Provide analysis of the current state technology solutions. Provide thought leadership and drive cross functional collaboration to design the future state. Assess technologies and approach, develop solution concepts, proposals, and designs, and recommend direction. Work closely with infrastructure strategy teams and business partners. Provide leadership and drive initiatives with vendors, consultants, and colleagues. Coordinate with project teams to ensure near term initiatives are in line with the strategy. Major Accountabilities Determine architectural requirements for the future state overall microservice architecture for payments switching, and specific microservice components, in line with business needs and technology strategy
Provide technical leadership to architecture, infrastructure and software engineering colleagues to define the required microservices and research, select, integrate, and develop technologies to be incorporated into the switching microservices to support the necessary business and technical functions
Create and manage the technology strategy and roadmap for assigned switching components in alignment with product and enterprise technology roadmaps
Create solutions with high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, high quality and faster time to market. Education Bachelor's degree or higher in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering.
Knowledge / Experience Experience in architecting and delivering high performance and highly secure distributed network applications
Advanced knowledge of high volume secure mission critical microservice based solutions, including architecture, design, development and operational phases
Experience in virtualization, cloud technologies, software defined infrastructure, open source frameworks and security
Experience and understanding of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies, Safe Agile a strong plus Demonstrate client Core Competencies Broad technical experience across different hardware platforms, operating systems, programming languages, application architectures and associated development and operations tools with emphasis of recent experience on cloud based microservices
Domain experience in financial services, especially payments, a strong plus
Skills/ Abilities Ability to be highenergy, strategic, selfdirected, proactive and able to function under pressure in an independent environment along with a high degree of initiative and selfmotivation to drive results. Strong communication skills both verbal and written and strong relationship, collaboration skills and organizational skills. Ability to quickly learn and assess new technologies, frameworks and tools and support multiple concurrent activities and to interface with external / internal resources, working as a member of a matrix based diverse and geographically distributed team
Describe your team.
Main Responsibility Enterprise architect team
Tech evaluation and strategy / client's tech roadmap Overall Client Organization Managing the tech to make sure it meets the business needs. Culture of your team Brand new team assembling experts help set the standards for Client. New forming team so the culture will be created. Describe the position.
Typical Work Day Tech products that will be evaluating, figure out how the cloudbased product works and if its safe to use. Expert witness how to define the standards Top 3 required technical skills Microservice architecture, Several cloud environments, High performance transaction processing Soft skills Curiosity, thoughtful leadership, technical leadership be able to challenge one another and bounce ideas off one another, be able to convince others, adjust your thoughts when needed.