Solutions Architect Private Sector
Type: Contract
Location: Dublin, Hybrid
Salary:
What’s Involved
- Owning the end-to-end solution architecture for complex payments and regulatory transformation programmes.
- Defining and maintaining current-state and target-state architecture blueprints.
- Identifying and managing architectural gaps, integration points, dependencies and risks across multiple domains.
- Producing design papers, architecture documentation and decision papers for presentation to governance forums.
- Coordinating architecture teams and workstreams to ensure consistency with enterprise standards and regulatory expectations.
- Leading vendor assessments, make-or-buy decisions and architecture trade-off evaluations.
What’s Needed
- Significant Solution Architecture experience within banking, payments or financial services environments.
- Strong knowledge of payment platforms, open banking and payments-related regulatory requirements.
- Experience designing end-to-end enterprise solutions spanning multiple systems, platforms and business domains.
- Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or an equivalent methodology.
- Experience with modern API platforms, cloud architecture, integration technologies and microservices.
- Ability to communicate complex architectural decisions clearly through high-quality documentation and senior governance presentations.
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