Job responsibilities
- Defines strategy, roadmap for product go to market
- Defines the target state of their product and drives achievement of the strategy
- Engages business and technology stakeholder to discuss and propose design approaches to meet current and future needs
- Participates in architecture governance bodies
- Evaluates recommendations and provides feedback on business needs, options to get to market
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on acquiring / merchant services payment understanding concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Strong experience in acquiring / merchant services payment understanding
- Strong technical background with design and delivery experience with software patterns and principles
- Advanced knowledge of one or more software, applications, and architecture disciplines
- Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- Experience as a functional architect (business / product)
- Ability to understand business requirements, create design, create technical delivery roadmap and technical know hows
- Experience with domain model, understands business process flow, client experience and use cases
- Understands business capability, features taxonomy
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
- Practical cloud native experience
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Merchant Services / acquiring payment experience
- Point of Sale experience is a plus
- Biometrics experience is a plus