As the Payments Architect, you will be supporting the payments value stream to transform and modernize our payments landscape with expertise in Microservices and Cloud Technologies. This will be a challenging role in a fast paced environment but will be a rewarding process to drive change from both a strategic roadmap and solution design perspective.

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 energised, all with a view to stimulate creativity and promote a shared purpose to serve our clients with excellence, professionalism, and care.

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 a minimum of 5 years' experience in a Payment Architecture role, ideally in the South African Banking industry.

Skills

 TOGAF 9

 Modelling experience in EA tools

 Business acumen

 Holistic thinking

 Analytical thinking

 Problem solving

 Demonstrated leadership

 EA Tool experience

Beneficial skills

 business change design

 business process optimization

 business strategy

 benefits analysis

 systems behavior

 solution modelling

 SOA

 system integration

 application design

 data design

 ICT industry standards

 service design

 architecture principles design

 architecture views and design

 building block design

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

We’d 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