Architect, network (Xico)

Overview

Generalist responsible for producing broad scope designs spanning multiple technical domains. These enable the continued evolution and expansion of the global payments IT infrastructure to support new clients and new services in line with global payments IT technical standards and corporate strategic direction, feeding into and driving that strategic direction at consultant levels. Captures, interprets and understands business requirements and produces costed IT infrastructure solutions to meet these requirements. Provides authoritative technical consultancy across a range of technical areas, facilitating the delivery of solution designs involving teams from different technical and business disciplines. Responsible for maintaining assigned aspects of the technical service catalogue and technical build standards. Involved throughout the project delivery life cycle including, where necessary, delivery of detailed designs, monitoring designs and development of supporting software (scripts, automated business processes, etc.) to affect the integration into the global payments operational environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide infrastructure solution input into a range of IT projects, including major new client and new platform implementations. Acts as a consultant to wider business project team and as architectural authority on infrastructure solutions.
• Lead technical, cross‑functional project teams to capture and document functional and non‑functional requirements, carrying out IT infrastructure impact analysis and producing high‑level infrastructure solution designs for global payments architectural approval and business case input.
• Proactively engage with internal and client‑facing business units to obtain advanced notice of upcoming major projects and initiatives, providing technical consultancy where necessary to help create propositions, business cases and service designs.
• Act as design authority for assigned technical area(s), setting design standards and reviewing and approving other designs against those standards.
• Provide infrastructure consultancy to the business analysis teams during discovery process for new clients and produce internal and client‑facing infrastructure solution designs as part of the overall discovery documentation.
• Drive operational and organisational change to align with strategic technical plans and business requirements, by building business cases, developing roadmaps and chairing/instigating workshops.
• Act as technical SME, carry out detailed implementation & integration activities for new solutions, including end‑to‑end orchestration of complex platforms. Acts as technical team lead for implementation/integration activities.
• Act as technical SME, maintain and ensure regular review of assigned technical service catalogue items.
• Act as technical SME, define low‑level technical standards associated for assigned area.
• Own definition and regular review of aspects of general payments technical architecture strategy, aligning this with business and overall IT strategy.
• Act as champion for technical change in line with business and IT strategy, producing robust business cases to support multi‑million dollar investment in new infrastructure and software solutions.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Relevant experience or degree in BCS solution development & architecture (practitioner level or equivalent) or relevant technology experience, typically minimum 8+ years relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree
• Typically minimum 8+ years relevant experience.
• Relevant technical and payment/finance industry experience at consultant level.

Desired Skills and Capabilities

• Skills/knowledge – having broad expertise or unique knowledge, uses skills to contribute to development of company objectives and principles and to achieve goals in creative and effective ways.
• Barriers to entry may exist at this level, such as technical committee review.
• Job complexity – works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles; exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results; creates formal networks involving coordination among groups.
• Supervision – acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments, may supervise the activities of others.
• Solution architecture – designs, communicates and approves high‑level structures to enable and guide the design and development of standard integrated solutions, meeting current and future business needs.
• Systems design – specifies and designs advanced information systems to meet defined business needs.
• Systems integration – defines the approach for automation, integration and testing of basic components and/or subsystems.