Payment Solutions Design Lead

7 days ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Samaha Consulting Full time
About the Role

The Lead Payment Architect will be responsible for designing and building payment services projects as per the roadmap of our business units. This includes delivering recognized payment methods in each market and innovative payment methods working closely with technology providers.

The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of Microservices and Cloud Technologies and experience in the bank or finance-related industry. A Degree in Business Science, Engineering, Computer Science, and/or IT is required, with preference given to a candidate certified in TOGAF or a similar Framework.

Responsibilities
  1. Design and build payment services projects as per the roadmap of our business units;
  2. Deliver recognized payment methods in each market and innovative payment methods working closely with technology providers;
  3. Analyse different technical options to deliver the payment architecture, in alignment with the global/local payments roadmap, functional constraints, and e-commerce solutions landscape defined as part of the company strategy;
  4. Perform workload estimation and prototype development together with the development teams;
  5. Coordinate in some projects the development activities to ensure consistency between as-built solutions and their design;
  6. Delivery of Solution Designs taking into account timeline and budget constraints;
  7. Engage and collaborate with technical stakeholders (Architecture, Security, Infrastructure) to get the solution design approved and in line with IT strategy;
  8. When applicable, assist the development manager in the coordination of development activities to get a solution in line with technical design documentation;
  9. Provide appropriate documentation and coaching to the project team and provide assistance during installation/deployment phase;
  10. Ensure efficient knowledge transfer and ramp up time for new on- and off-shore developers;
  11. Industrialization is integrated in the design of the solution when possible to be easily rolled out in other contexts without major developments;
  12. Work to assure Online and Offline international payment acceptance for all brands and markets;
  13. Use continuous improvement methodologies to grow revenue, reduce costs, and mitigate risk;
  14. 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;
  15. 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.


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