Lead Solutions Architect

3 weeks ago


Gauteng, South Africa Quantum Change Full time

**Lead Solutions Architect (Payment Systems)**

An exciting opportunity arose for a seasoned dynamic solutions architect, experienced in financial services payment solutions.

You will be responsible to lead the solutions architecture on a significant high-profile Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) payments project.

You will have the convenience of a hybrid working environment, with a requirement of being 3 days in the office and 2 days remote working during this 2 year contract.

**Experience Required**
- Overall 10+ years of working experience in Payments Technology solution at an IT company or Bank’s IT department, in the role of Solution Architect.

**Skillset Required**

Should have good understanding of:

- Payments end-to-end flows.
- Payments Hub, Clearing and Settlement
- Automated clearing house programs
- Working knowledge on different Payment products e.g, Remittances, Domestic Payments, International Payments etc
- Comprehensive understanding of Payments processing for both high value and low value transactions in South Africa
- Strong analytical skills with ability to map given business requirements into required technology components and designs
- Conversant with Business Process Modelling
- Aware of in J2EE technologies, Service Oriented Architecture, SOA, XML, Soap, Rest, Data modelling, Microservices, Agile delivery

**Education**
- A tertiary qualification (NQF6), degree (NQF7) or Honours degree (NQF 8) in the field of specialisation OR equivalent industry-specific certifications OR
- A postgraduate qualification will be an added advantage.
- A formal architecture certification (e.g. TOGAF, BIZBOK) will be an advantage.

**Key responsibilities**:
Provide the following solution architecture services for the EA division: (Projects, Programmes and new Demands)
- Develop the solution architectures for the different projects within the EA and guide the end-to-end delivery of solutions for EA.
- Ensure alignment between the enterprise architecture, related solution architectures, architecture principles, and information and communications technology (ICT) standards to ensure standardisation and reduce risk.
- Ensure that the solutions meet the business requirements while complying to standards and principles, traceability to enterprise reference models, and alignment with the target enterprise architecture vision.
- Ensure that proposed solutions are peer reviewed by the EA division and presented to the Enterprise Architecture Governance forums for approval.
- Take accountability for overseeing the end-to-end delivery of the solutions for the business and ensure that solutions implemented match the architectural designs (implementation governance).
- Develop evaluation criteria to support cross-functional teams in evaluating product identification and selection processes including proofs of concept (POC), requests for information (RFIs) and requests for proposals (RFPs).

**Additional requirements**
- Proficiency in English (verbal and written skills).
- Thought leadership.
- Stakeholder management.
- Risk management.
- Problem-solving skills.
- Facilitation skills
- Negotiation skills

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary

**Salary**: R1,000.00 - R1,300.00 per hour

COVID-19 considerations:
Appropriate Covid 19 protocols are in place

Application Question(s):

- Relevant B Degree or similar?

**Experience**:

- Payments, incl. Domestic & International payments: 3 years (required)
- Financial Services Solutions Architecture: 10 years (required)


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