Payment Architect

Found in: Adzuna ZA B C2 - 2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Adzuna ZA B C2 Full time
General Information

Information pertaining to the general requirements of this position are detailed below:
Job Title
Lead Solution Architect
Job Category
Technical
Preferred Highest Education
Degree in Business Management, Computer Science, Engineering and/or IT Sciences
Monthly Remuneration
Market-related
Reports to
Chief Architect
Type of Employment
Full-time

Description of Business

Absa Bank is a South African and Pan African based company specializing in Retail and Corporate Banking. We have a vision to inspire positive change in South Africa and our African countries and organizations by making a difference in the lives of individuals.
To maintain our leading edge, Absa plays an active role in the Payments Community. Absa is a member of PASA (Payments Association of South Africa).

Organizational Culture / Work Environment

While we support individualism, we also strongly believe in the power of effective teamwork. Our working environments are highly collaborative and energized, all with a view to stimulate creativity and promote a shared purpose to serve our clients with excellence, professionalism, and care.

Academic and Work Requirements

The following qualifications and work experience are required for this position:

Qualifications
A Degree in Business Science, Engineering, Computer Science and/or IT. Preference would be given to a candidate certified in TOGAF or a similar Framework.

Work Experience
The Candidate needs to have:
  • 5 years + experience in Payment Solution/End-to-End Architecture (ideally in the South African Banking industry.)
  • Experience in the bank or finance related industry
  • 5 Years Developer experience
  • 3-5 years experience in System analysis & design
  • UML modelling (e.g. Archimate)
Skills
  • TOGAF 9 or 10
  • Modelling experience in EA tools, like iServer
  • Business acumen
  • Holistic thinking
  • Analytical thinking
  • Problem solving
  • Demonstrated leadership
  • Requirements gathering, analyze & synthesize then solution (requirements gathering & solutioning)
  • Planning
  • Result oriented
  • Strategic thinking and problem solving
  • Presentation skills selling your story
  • Accuracy
  • Time management
  • Customer centric
  • Relationship building
  • Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Running and participate in RFx
Beneficial skills
  • business change design
  • business process optimization
  • business strategy
  • benefits analysis
  • systems behavior
  • solution modelling
  • system integration
  • application design
  • data design
  • ICT industry standards
  • service design
  • architecture principles design
  • architecture views and design
  • Experience in Salesforce architecture
  • Experience in AWS/Azure architecture
  • Experience in cloud native core banking architecture
  • Experience in project budgeting and business case compilation
Duties and Responsibilities
  • Design, build and deploy payment services projects as per the roadmap of our business units;
  • Deliver the most recognized payment methods in each market & innovative payment methods working closely with technology providers;
  • Analyse different technical options to deliver the payment architecture, in alignment with the global/local payments roadmap, functional constraints and the e-commerce solutions landscape defined as part of the company strategy;
  • Perform workload estimation and prototype development together with the development teams.
  • Coordinate in some projects the development activities to ensure consistency between as-built solutions and their design;
  • Delivery of Solution Designs taking into account timeline and budget constraints.
  • Engage and collaborate with technical stakeholders (Architecture, Security, Infrastructure) to get the solution design approved and in line with IT strategy.
  • When applicable, assist the development manager in the coordination of development activities to get a solution in line with technical design documentation.
  • Provide appropriate documentation and coaching to the project team and provide assistance during installation / deployment phase.
  • Ensure efficient knowledge transfer and ramp up time for new on- and off-shore developers.
  • Industrialization is integrated in the design of the solution when possible to be easily rolled out in other context without major developments;
  • Work to assure Online and Offline international payment acceptance for all brands and markets;
  • Use continuous improvement methodologies to grow revenue, reduce costs and mitigate risk;
  • Work to mitigate risk when it comes to payments acceptance. Assure PCI and ISO principles. Work with Fraud / Risk business teams and prepare plans for data breach response plans and DRP related to payments acceptance.
  • Advocate the adoption of "best practices" to ensure standardization across the organization in processes and solutions and collaborate with cross functional business units and other functional teams to drive end-to-end process consistency, maturity & effectiveness.
What we're looking for:
  • Strong Software Architecture background and knowledge of agile development practices with a history of technical leadership
  • Experience across the entire software development life cycle from inception, through build to production
  • You appreciate and acknowledge the impact of system design decisions on scalability, resilience, and supportability
  • Experience of API design and architecture patterns, messaging technologies (Kafka, MQ)
  • Exposure to modern application frameworks (Spring boot Java etc)
  • Exposure to Open Banking architecture framework
Wed welcome the following desirable skills and experience:
  • Knowledge of delivery of microservices to production
  • Exposure to Systems Thinking
  • Exposure to Docker and container orchestration tools e.g., Kubernetes
  • Knowledge in one or more of the following: API Economy; Big Data; Cloud/Open Source; Automation/Robotics; Blockchain
  • An understanding of any of the following Payments areas: SA Domestic Payments (Cheques, Faster Payments, ); International Payments (SWIFT/SEPA);
  • Legal, Regulatory & Mandatory projects in Payments areas
  • New Payments Architecture

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