Senior Solution Architect

Job Description

Create solution architecture artifacts that are consistent with architecture principles, methodologies, and best practices with a goal of resilient and scalable cloud-based solutions. Design and refactor the company’s Payment Services platform.

Responsibilities

• Work with Service stream architects and developers to ensure software builds meet system, functional, and performance requirements and adhere to company policies such as security and privacy.
• Architect large-scale target state Payment systems end to end, and with hands-on expertise
• Collaborate with business and engineering stakeholders to develop strategic architecture solutions that align with business objectives, enterprise architecture standards, and future industry demand.
• Build common business functions and capabilities within the payment ecosystem to simplify technology footprint and faster time to market
• Own and drive solution evaluation and build vs buy/partner analysis
• Communicate technology vision, strategies, and solutions across communities and cross-functional teams
• Provide expert knowledge of architecture and serve as SME to cross-functional teams
• Active learner of technological innovations, payments industry trends, and competitor landscape
• Be an adviser to engineering organizations to adopt modern engineering practices such as continuous architecture, Inner sourcing, DevOps and SRE
• Ensure 100% compliance with regulatory requirements like ISO, PCI DSS, NESA, etc.,
• Supporting ongoing projects, such as expansion in new countries, integration, and procurement, with Card Payment & eCommerce expertise
  
  

• Broad experience in cards/merchant/wallet payment solutions
• Expertise in building solutions with microservices, event-driven architecture and cloud-native principles
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience in Azure cloud services
• Hands-on on Authorization, Clearing and Settlement Systems, Merchant Onboarding, Payout application, Cardholder (Issuing) Processing. Acquiring and Payments
• Card payments: Understanding of issuers, acquirers, and card schemes, interchange, cardholder authentication,
• Understanding of payments switching, routing, use of cryptography, PIN operations, contact, and contactless protocols
• Emerging payment technologies: Understanding of emerging developments such as Open Banking, new payment rails, digital payments, new payment channels such as wallets, smart Point of Sale and ATMs, real-time cross border, blockchain-enabled crypto payments, central bank digital currencies, data in payments and financial crime developments
• Knowledge of Fintech niches offerings in the payments value chain
• Broad experience with technical modeling and documentation (Data Flow, Diagrams, Network Diagrams, Software Architecture Documents, etc.)
• Experience with PCI DSS and/or other corresponding payment security protocols
• Ability to communicate about solutions and possible challenges on a both conceptual and a technical level in speech and writing in English and preferably Arabic
• Industry Certifications like CISSP, Open CA, TOGAF, Cloud Certification etc., are preferred.