Solution Architect - Investment Banking - Payments - Accounting services - SDLC - Contract

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

By applying to this job you are sending us your CV, which may contain personal information. Please refer to our Privacy Notice to understand how we process this information. In short, in order to supply you with work finding services, we will hold and process your personal data, and only with your express permission we will share this personal data with a client (or a third party working on behalf of the client) by email or by upload to the Client/third parties vendor management system. By giving us permission to send your CV to a client, this constitutes permission to share the personal data that would be necessary to consider your application, interview you (Phone/video/face to face) and if successful hire you.

Scope AT acts as an employment agency for Permanent Recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the Terms and Conditions, Data Protection Policy, Privacy Notice and Disclaimers which can be found at our website.