Project Solution Architect

**Overall Summary**

**Key Responsibilities**
- Collaborate with business, product, and project teams to design and implement business solutions aligned with the group solution architecture blueprint.
- Lead the definition of technical solution requirements that address business needs.
- Specify technical solution components and related specifications to meet client operating requirements.
- Develop procedures and processes to ensure successful solution delivery.
- Review and guide the development team to establish coding standards, practices, and implement security best practices.
- Interact with project teams and stakeholders to socialize and finalize the technical design.
- Provide guidance to the project team in software and technical development, supporting business partners until the technical operations support team is self-sufficient.
- Coordinate with the Quality Assurance team and guide the project team in testing and attaining acceptance of the solution.
- Serve as both a technical solution architect and technical project manager as needed.
- Establish cohesive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders across all domains.
- Communicate system requirements to software development teams.
- Evaluate and select appropriate software or hardware and suggest integration methods.
- Oversee assigned programs, conduct code reviews, and provide guidance to team members.
- Assist with solving technical problems when they arise.
- Ensure the implementation of agreed architecture and infrastructure.
- Address technical concerns, ideas, and suggestions; mitigate technical risks and control technical debt.
- Oversee technical suitability, maintainability, schedule, cost, requirements, risks, quality, and benefits of the project.
- Proactively implement risk mitigation strategies to manage all aspects of technical risks.Keep the leadership team informed with detailed and accurate reports or presentations.

**Requirements**:

- Minimum of 10 years of experience working on payments and transaction systems, including credit cards, debit cards, and digital banking, at both operational and strategic levels.
- Proven experience leading and delivering projects as part of a cross-functional team in large organizations, demonstrating strong leadership and project management skills.
- Broad exposure and in-depth knowledge of industry trends in software architecture and development.
- Demonstrated experience in technical solutioning across various domains within large organizations and managing large-scale projects (over USD $10M in value) is preferred.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor and guide technical teams.
- Extensive knowledge and experience in:

- Application development processes, DevOps, Agile methodologies, and CI/CD tools and best practices.
- Service-Oriented Architecture and integration.
- Java/J2EE development, leading the development of high-volume enterprise systems.
- RESTful APIs, Spring 5.x, Spring Boot, cloud-based technologies, and microservices.
- Web technologies such as HTML5, CSS, modular design, Latest Angular, React or Bootstrap versions, and open-source JavaScript frameworks.
- Working within a Linux computing environment and using command line tools, including knowledge of shell/Python scripting for automating common tasks.
- Database systems, SQL, data mapping, and data and asset migrations.
- Enterprise messaging (e.g., IBM MQ, Solace).
- Digital cloud-native architecture (serverless, AWS).
- Infrastructure concepts such as load balancing, traffic management, and DMZs.
- Experience in Government Systems hosted on commercial cloud is a plus
- Familiarity with JIRA and a clear understanding of how GIT works.
- Strong understanding of security, risk and compliance frameworks, disaster recovery, high availability architectures, hardware, operating systems and network connectivity.
- Strong drive towards results with the ability to see projects through from start to finish.
- Excellent understanding of project management techniques and methods.
- Exceptional communication and client management skills, with the ability to effectively convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.