Senior Architect, Payments and Blockchain

**Job Summary**
- SCB aspires to uplift the payments technology estate to modern architecture to provide solid foundation for business. This role is pivotal to meet these outcomes. During the definition phase, as a seasoned architecture professional, Cash architect will be responsible for leading the “to-be” architecture definition in partnership with business, ops and technology teams. During the implementation phase he/she will lead solution effort to ensure that solution not only meets functional / non-functional requirements but also architecture strategy/standards/patterns and engineering principles.He/she will also influence enterprise tech/architecture standards as Domain architect and contribute actively to group-wide initiatives.**Key Responsibilities**
- Collaborate with business, product, tech, delivery, and others to define the target, roadmap and periodically refresh the same
- Define architecture principles, reusable patterns, integration standards and guardrails for the domain and work closely with the development teams to implement the same
- Drive domain APIs design and adoption
- Evaluate different solution options for business requirements and recommend best option to move forward
- Keeping track of industry developments, conducting R&D to incorporate best in class practices and methodologies and sharing the same with team and stakeholders.
- Chair and run governance forums - Architecture review forum, tech design authority to provide guidance and govern that investment dollars actually move towards target state
- Align architecture across different domains within bank from integration standard perspectives, to eliminate frictions and enable teams move forward
- Create / Review solution intent documents from perspectives including stability, resilience, performance, recoverability, availability, scale, DR and security.
- Lead domain architecture in group wide initiatives
- Evaluate vendor solutions during RFP process and propose the best fit approach
- Guide and coach development teams and junior architects to meet architecture outcomes.
- Eliminate decision stall by aligning solutions / strategy with different domains
- Participate in code reviews, assist & mentor team on technical aspects.
- Act as an SME on cash management technologies

**Key Expertise**
- Ability to define the future and explain for various initiatives - what are the outcomes, how it should work, who will do what, how will systems interact and how will the process, systems and data coherently align to meet the goals
- Functional skills - Ability to create e2e functional architecture for products and services in cash management domain - Channels, Payments, Collections, Compliance, Funding, Liquidity and others
- Process skills - Ability to drive process and operational standardization
- Strategy - Ability to straddle both big picture and the low level developer concerns
- Communication - Skilled in presenting complex ideas in simple fashion.
- Ability to influence, negotiate and collaborate to meet the outcomes at different levels in the bank
- Listening skills and ability to empathize with others outcomes / concerns
- Documentation - Ability to create good quality documents, diagrams and ability to review various documents
- Excellent executive presence, written and oral communication skills with ability to manage upwards and downwards.
- Strong leadership skills and outcome oriented to drive forward looking momentum /conversations

**Key stakeholders**
- Cash Business/Programs
- Enterprise Architects
- Development Managers/leads across Cash CIO
- CIO Cash Management
- Other Responsibilities
- Ability to make decisions and guide team to deliver things on time
- Guide and coach junior developers.- 15+ years of total experience with 7+ years in an architecture role for multi-country, multi-product large payments transformation(s) / legacy replacement program(s) in a large tier 1 bank.
- Demonstrated experience in defining target technology state vision, architectural roadmap, and engineering/integration standards
- Domain knowledge across two or more - payments (domestic & cross border), ISO20022, collections, liquidity, Trade finance, Escrow and digital channels
- Payments as a service experience (PaaS)
- Proven experience in vendor selection, RFP process
- Education: Graduate in Computer Science or Related Courses
- Certifications: Architecture Related
- Bachelor’s in computer science, software engineering or related technical field. Masters in any field is an added advantage.
- Expertise/background in Payments -as -a service model - Ability to design / drive domain APIs
- Expertise in interoperability and integration within / outside the bank
- Proven experience in defining solutions that deliver stability, resilience, recoverability, availability, performance, scale, Disaster recovery (DR) and security
- TOGAF or similar certification. Cash management certification is a plus

**Role Specific Technical competen