Senior Consultant – Payments Permanent

We have exciting permanent opening for Senior Consultant with payments domain experience to join the team.

Job Responsibility

• Working closely with stakeholders to develop practical domain roadmaps to move the enterprise towards the future state vision, while taking into account business, technical and delivery constraints
• Analyzing stakeholder requirements, current state architecture, and gaps to create a future state architecture vision for one or more parts of the enterprise with a focus on reduced complexity, cost efficiencies, reuse, reduced risk and/or improved business capabilities
• Reviewing application design, problem ticket and incident to propose short term and long term resolution to fit with the domain roadmap
• Guiding and challenge the project on architecture and design decision
• Governing the technical debt of the domain
• Reviewing non-functional requirement and proposed architecture changes to anticipate evolving non-functional requirements
• Developing architecture principles and standards
• Communicating the principles, standards, vision and roadmaps to stakeholders and proactively addressing any questions / concerns identified
• Acting as a trusted advisor to stakeholders in both business and IT to assist in defining and delivering high quality solutions
• Provide thought leadership on architectural or other topics
• Embed Platform Thinking in everything

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or similar domain
• Related professional/technical qualification will be advantageous although not mandatory
• At least 5 years of experience in wholesale banking technology/ transaction banking domain (payments, cash management, channels)
• At least 3 years’ experience in Architecture in a large multi-technological environment
• Deep experience delivering mission critical, enterprise scale IT solutions in a heterogeneous technology environment, both in-house built and 3rd party vendor products
• Experience in actual systems development work, with prior coding (e.g. Java, C++, Cobol, RPG, Python), functional specifications using modelling technics (e.g. UML, ERD, ORM, OCL) and technical specifications and systems development and testing experience
• Have in-depth experience in deployment architecture with a view on functional disposition, state management, concurrency, coupling, cohesion, performance and high availability.
• Familiarity with best practice methodologies and tools for the entire solution lifecycle from ideation to requirements, design, development, testing, deployment and operations
• An understanding of all domains of Enterprise Architecture, including the business, data, application, infrastructure and security domains
• Familiarity with one or more formal Architecture frameworks / methodologies (TOGAF, Zachman, BIAN, etc.)
• Practical experience in data modelling, object modelling, design patterns and Enterprise Architecture tool or other software modelling tools.
• Familiarity with heterogeneous technology platforms such as CICS, AS400, Unix/Linux, Windows
• Ability to communicate complex topics in an understandable way using a level of detail and terms appropriate to the situation
• Must be a good team player and able to drive consensus amongst stakeholders with conflicting viewpoints and objectives