Solution Architect - Investment Banking - Payments - Accounting services - SDLC - Contract
Posted 6 days ago by Scope AT Limited
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Manchester/Liverpool/Stoke/Birmingham , UK
Summary: The Solution Architect role focuses on designing and implementing architectural solutions within the Investment Banking sector, specifically in Payments and Accounting services. The position requires collaboration with stakeholders to ensure the solutions meet business needs while adhering to best practices in software development life cycles. The role is contract-based for an initial 12 months, with the possibility of extension, and involves a hybrid working arrangement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Describes the solution intent and the associated operating environment, determines the primary systems/subsystems and their interfaces, defining non-functional requirements.
- Ensures the solution is fit for purpose by working with stakeholders, vendors/service providers. In parallel, evaluating the impact of strategic design decisions.
- Working with both business and technology to create the solution intent and architectural vision.
- Leads rapid shaping of a high level architecture with details filled in with emerging business requirements; ensures architecture is flexible and modular and designed to adapt easily.
- Utilizes the defined best practices, templates and documentation to create architectural designs.
- Works with Product Manager/Owner to plan and prioritize technology focused backlog items for the architecture runway.
- Clarifies the architecture for the development teams to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any impediments.
Key Skills:
- Domain knowledge of Payments, Accounting Services, Liquidity Management, Receivables, Trade & Supply Chain Finance, Commercial Card domains (some or all preferred).
- Driving a shared service strategy and performance culture.
- Drives best practices approach to the continuous improvement of our products, processes and tools.
- Relevant IT experience (SDLC- Waterfall/Agile).
- Able to lead and contribute to automation, causal analysis and development of shared/common solutions.
- Translating complex concepts into multiple architectural views aimed at varying audiences.
- Broad based IT knowledge and experience. (Financial Software, Middleware, Databases).
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Manchester
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Solution Architect - Investment Banking - Payments - Accounting services - SDLC - Contract (Initial 12 months, to be extended further)
Responsibilities
- Describes the solution intent and the associated operating environment, determines the primary systems/subsystems and their interfaces, defining non-functional requirements.
- Ensures the solution is fit for purpose by working with stakeholders, vendors/service providers. In parallel, evaluating the impact of strategic design decisions.
- Working with both business and technology to create the solution intent and architectural vision.
- Leads rapid shaping of a high level architecture with details filled in with emerging business requirements; ensures architecture is flexible and modular and designed to adapt easily.
- Utilizes the defined best practices, templates and documentation to create architectural designs.
- Works with Product Manager/Owner to plan and prioritize technology focused backlog items for the architecture runway.
- Clarifies the architecture for the development teams to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any impediments.
Required Skills
- Domain knowledge of Payments, Accounting Services, Liquidity Management, Receivables, Trade & Supply Chain Finance, Commercial Card domains (some or all preferred).
- Driving a shared service strategy and performance culture.
- Drives best practices approach to the continuous improvement of our products, processes and tools.
- Relevant IT experience (SDLC- Waterfall/Agile).
- Able to lead and contribute to automation, causal analysis and development of shared/common solutions.
- Translating complex concepts into multiple architectural views aimed at varying audiences.
- Broad based IT knowledge and experience. (Financial Software, Middleware, Databases).
Contract role - inside IR35 - 3 days a week in office - candidate can be based in Manchester/Liverpool/Stoke/Birmingham
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