Solution Architect – Cards Acquiring

Solution Architect with domain expertise & experience in designing the solutions involving various payments/core/cards systems of the Financial institutions in the UAE region.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for understanding the various requirements with respect to the payments/cards systems, design & provide detailed solution design with the stipulated Nonfunctional requirements in place.
• Should create technical solution to specific business problems and requirements within the company’s business strategy and considering the company’s Enterprise Architecture roadmap.
• Present tactical and strategic options architecture and solution to senior management
• Manage and review application, data and technology component and building blocks from enterprise architecture perspective
• To maintain the technology options that will most appropriately support the Bank’s required software systems.
• To ensure that current and complete documentation of the Bank’s systems architecture and the interactions between those systems is developed and maintained.
• To ensure that scalability, disaster recoverability and system performance are adequately considered in all aspects of the overall systems architecture.
• To facilitate the effective integration of all systems operating within the Bank and, in particular, as new systems are selected and implemented.
• To Define Technology Roadmap and govern technology portfolio from Enterprise/Digital Application Architecture perspective
• Should provide solution in line with Agile and Devops oriented project delivery.
  
  

Qualifications

Years of Experience: 10+

Essential Skills

A good understanding of the Payments, Card Issuing & Acquiring message and transaction flows and must have experience of integrating in-house applications with the 3rd party Fintechs or vice-versa.

• Must have the domain knowledge of the working of Card Issuing & Acquiring including gateways, ATM and Switch
• Must have Understanding on the ISO8583, MT & MX messages
• Must Have working knowledge Defining API Specification for REST or Web Services
• Must have knowledge of API & Interface governances, design standards and principles
• Must have experience to transform the user journey and experience with the help of latest technologies
• Should have knowledge in Cloud Deployments
• Should have experience to evaluate the technology partners and define their KPIs.
• Managing the life cycle of solutions, undertaking technology watch and developing proofs of concept for Payments & Cards systems. This is applicable to both on Premise & Cloud based components (especially AWS)
• Good to have working knowledge in application development/integration preferably Java, Spring framework(Boot, MVC,JPA), Angular, React Native, React web, TIBCO, WebSphere etc.
  
  

Desired Skills

• AWS , Azure, Professional certification will be added advantage
• Knowledge and Experience in Cloud, DevOps, Agile development methodology
• Must be aware of Security standards, Data confidentiality, PII information & best practices of while defining the application architecture
  
  

Experience

Cards & payment processing systems, Acquiring & Issuing Processes,

ATMs, ISO8583

SWIFT, PACS

UAE specific payments