Payments Domain Architect / Enterprise Architect

SUMMARY:
The Payments Domain Architect helps to create and shape the strategic payments capability landscape

POSITION INFO:

The Payments Domain Architect helps to create and shape the strategic payments capability landscape for Client through effective collaboration and leading of multifunctional teams.

Key Responsibilities (3-5): (Day to day duties)

1. Elaborate on the high level business needs, determine the architectural fit and create and maintain roadmaps to achieve the business objectives.
   1. Specific focus on the modernisation of card payments landscape from the context of legacy card systems in the landscape
   2. Thought leadership on modernisation of the card payments landscape, componentisation of technical capabilities, decomposition of legacy monolithic systems and alignment to enterprise target systems
2. Review drivers of change in the environment, identify associated impact on the payments landscape and advise on alignment required.
   1. Realtime processing enablement of payments, APIs, Micro services, Open banking
   2. Convergence of payments processing, payments services hub concepts
3. Conceive a high-level, shared vision and scope of the proposed architecture, allowing it to be communicated to the sponsor and other stakeholders.
4. Build out and maintain the strategic roadmap to achieve the future state of the card payments architecture
5. Collaborate with stakeholders across the solution delivery value chain to mature the solution for effective execution.
   1. Collaborate with stakeholders, Agile teams and SMEs
6. Plan and conduct workshops that bridges the gap between the written method and requirements.
7. Effectively communicate the architecture and present the solutions at the appropriate forums including
8. Lead, motivate and direct multifunctional teams to successful implementation towards the desired future state.
9. SA and Africa payments industry knowledge, regulatory and compliance wrt card payments, domestic payments and global payments and impacts on payment architectures and design

Qualification/s (NQF level / Diploma / Degree)

Essential (required minimum):

• B degree with Information technology or computer science
• 10-15 years’ experience in technology based solution creation

Preferred:

• Post graduate qualification and/or industry recognised certification e.g. TOGAF
• Agile, SAFe certification
• Azure or AWS fundamentals certification

Experience from the job description:

Minimum required experience (essential disqualifier – relevant industry experience):

• 5+ years  active experience in the South African/African Payments environment
• 3+ financial services payments capability exposure
• Experience with card acquiring and card issuing technology landscapes

Advantageous experience (not a disqualifier):

• Payment industry trends driving change, digitisation of payments, tokenisation, Open banking, APIs
• Knowledge of ISO20022 protocol
• Awareness of cloud computing fundamentals
• Familiar with SAFe Agile and working with agile teams
• Knowledge of payments processing platforms
• Knowledge of card payment processing platforms
• Working knowledge of Alfabet

Skills (Technologies, systems or software knowledge etc.):

• ACI platforms, Finastra  platforms
• Bankserve integration
• SWIFT, Mastercard, VISA, AMEX
• Cloud architectures

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