IPF Solution Architect
Job Summary
The Icon Payments Framework (IPF) provides institutions with faster and more cost-effective access to payments through an advanced and highly flexible payments specific platform which seamlessly integrates with core and back-office banking applications.
Our Solution Architects play a key role in theend-to-end solution design and engineering leadership for IPF client engagements from pre-sales through to go-live. With broad and deep technology background complimented by an excellent consulting repertoire the Solution Architect will drive the solution road-map from a capability technology integrationand infrastructure perspective.
- Significant capability in the design & implementation of end-to-end application and technical architectures for highly concurrent real-time transactional systems.
- Experienced in conceptual application integration logical and physical modelling.
- Experience of analysing and implementing solutions to meet both functional and non-functional requirements.
- Previous hands-on experience with back-end development technologies (e.g. Java) and common software patterns techniques.
- Experience across modern architectural / delivery standards and methods including Agile TDD BDDCI/CD automation DevOps practices Cloud and Microservices Architecture.
- Technology enthusiast avid follower of new technologies design patterns and architecture styles.
- Experience and appreciation for the Payments Industry and regulatory landscape from both a technical functional and business perspective.
- Familiarity with event-driven reactive architectural patterns such as event sourcing CQRS and hexagonal architecture.
- Security architecture awareness including identity management authentication and role-based access design.
- Strong consulting and stakeholder management skills with the ability to operate effectively in complex multi-team client environments.
- Supporting pre-sales proposals and propositions in the form of client meetingsapproachand estimation for solutions.
- Understanding and eliciting clients payments needs to produce high level solution overviews based around IPF.
- Translating business requirements and non-functionals into technical solution designs.
- Working with client Internal Squads and Product Owners to create implementation features that can be coded by our engineering squads with regular review sessions to ensure implementation meets the design.
- Conducting solution architecture reviews of existing system providing impact analysis from IPF implementation perspective and communicating the findings of the review back to stakeholders.
- Organisingdesign authority workshops with client and IPF product stakeholders.
- Activelyparticipatingin internal and external technical governance committees.
- Govern IPF client implementation backlog from a technical and architectural perspective.
- Creating andmaintainingstructured solution documentation including integration views deployment views sequencediagramsand key design decisions.
- Engaging with the IPF product team tovalidate solution feasibility communicate client requirements and ensure alignment with the product roadmap.
- Tracking and communicating architectural risks issues and dependencies to keep the project team and stakeholders informed.
- Contributing to the IPF SA practice through knowledge sharing patterndocumentationand community engagement.
About You
About Us
Icon Solutions is a fintech company that has been designing and implementing state-of-the-art payments solutions since 2009.
Our core product the Icon Payments Framework (IPF) is an internationally proven payments development framework that is trusted by Tier 1 banks across the globe such as Citi NatWest UBS and BNP Paribas.
This combines with an international team of payments architecture data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) experts who help clients navigate every step of their transformation journey.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
About Company
A payments solutions company providing financial institutions with payments technology (IPF), payments subject matter expertise and services.