Description
A global consulting company is looking for a Payments Enterprise Architect to join a company in the financial industry.Essential experience:
- Minimum 10+ years of experience working in an IT Organisation as part of a Payments group, in the role of Lead Technical Architect.
- Must have experiences in implementation of leading Payments Product at large banks
- Must be versatile: From Process to Infrastructure understanding
Essential skills:
- Working experience of Global Payments (Non Card) Processing, Payments Hub, Clearing and Settlement, Automated Clearing House, Immediate/Urgent/Faster Payments/SEPA
- Financial Messaging viz., SWIFT and/or ISO20022 Processing
- Working experience in Payments Systems Integration Project, Systems Integration and Interfacing with multiple banking Systems and Payment Networks
- Understanding of Payments value chain and associated knowledge of surrounding landscape applications
- Experience in building Global Payment Architecture (Enterprise, Functional, Applicative and Technical layers)
- Strong communication skills both verbal and written
- Experience with one or more industry leading payments products like Clear2Pay OPF, Fundtech GPP SP, Dovetail PSH
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical authority, leadership for the overall architecture.
- Participate in high level business requirements gathering sessions to understand the business needs, and uses EA framework models to oversee the creation of end state IT architecture/Infrastructure.
- Identify constraints and pre requisites from an applicative and technical perspective, formulate recommendations to size infrastructure
- Prepare and lead performance stream during delivery
- Provide technical expertise in the assessment and selection of payments related software packages
- Proactively identify innovative technologies and asses business opportunities.