Director Of Solution Architecture
Director Of Solution Architecture
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Every day Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit debit prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies more than 1300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver bestinclass payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.
The Director of Solution Architecture is playercoach role split between domainfocused architecture 60 and leading a team of solution architects 40. The role involves aligning IT strategies with business goals establishing architectural standards and driving innovation across products and systems. Responsibilities include developing technology roadmaps ensuring compliance guiding solution delivery and collaborating with crossfunctional and executive teams. Strong leadership technical acumen and communication skills are essential for success.
Leadership Type Player Coach
Job Duties
Strategy:
- Develop and align IT strategies with overall business goals ensuring technology solutions support the organizations objectives.
- Consider factors such as reliability scalability flexibility and security in the architecture decisions to ensure longterm success of the company.
- Assess the impact of changes and provide guidance on managing transitions within the enterprise architecture.
- Collaborate with financial stakeholders to develop and manage budgets for enterprise architecture initiatives.
- Evaluate new technologies and tools to determine their suitability for integration into product and enterprise wide architecture.
- Collaborate with solution architects within the assigned domain to identify gaps in documentation and prioritize and assign remediation accordingly.
Architecture:
- Establish and enforce architectural principles standards and governance to ensure consistency and interoperability across the enterprise.
- Take a holistic view of the organization considering how different projects and systems interact and contribute to the overall architecture.
- Create and maintain comprehensive enterprise architecture models encompassing business data application and technology domains.
- Develop and maintain technology roadmaps guiding the evolution of the IT landscape to meet future business requirements.
- Evaluate and select technologies and oversee the integration of these solutions into the overall enterprise architecture.
- Analyze and forecast system capacity requirements to ensure optimal performance and scalability.
- Identify and mitigate potential risks related to technology solutions ensuring security compliance and scalability.
- Manages risks associated with technology decisions considering factors like compliance security and longterm sustainability.
- Review and Approve new product solution architecture within the assigned domain(s)
- Collaborate with corporate governance to ensure compliance and approved pathways to production for all domain initiatives.
Leadership:
- Collaborate with leaders from various pillars to understand business needs and ensure that IT initiatives support broader organizational objectives.
- Provide guidance to product solution architects development teams ensuring adherence to architectural principles and best practices throughout the software development lifecycle
- Collaborate with the corporate architecture team to foster innovation and promote a cohesive enterprise architecture.
- Effectively communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders facilitating understanding and buyin.
- Drive Innovation by staying current on emerging technologies industry trends and by recommending strategic technology investments.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement by evaluating existing processes and proposing enhancements to streamline and optimize the enterprise architecture
- Engage with senior management business leaders in Heartland and GPS to align technology with business strategy
- Work across multiple projects and systems providing clear guidance to SAs PSEs and Product Managers.
- Manage a small team of solution architects dedicated to the assigned product domain.
- Ensure solution architecture work is properly prioritized and completed in alignment with the enterprise needs.
Job Requirements
- Requires a bachelors or masters degree in computer science information technology or a related field or equivalent experience.
- 10 years of experience in software development and architecture with a focus on consumer facing products.
- Proficiency in architecture modeling tools and languages.
- Strong knowledge of relevant technologies frameworks and design patterns.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with diverse teams and stakeholders.
- Strong analytical and problemsolving skills to address complex architectural challenges.
- Ability to lead and influence teams in adopting and implementing architectural standards.
- Ability to adapt to evolving technologies and business needs.
At Global Payments our vision is to be Champions of Inclusion. We are fully committed and focused on creating a better tomorrow in the communities in which we live and work. We aspire to ensure fair treatment access opportunity and advancement for all team members. We believe all team members should be able to bring their true authentic selves to the workplace and feel accepted engaged and understood.
Global Payments offers a comprehensive benefits package to all of our team members including medical dental and vision care EAP programs paid time off recognition programs retirement and investment options charitable gift matching programs and worldwide days of service. To learn more review our Benefits page at: position is eligible to be considered for remote hiring anywhere in the USA.
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Director
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