Development Architect

What you’ll be doing:

Technical Leadership

• Participating in the definition and validation of technical guidance. E.g. architecture principles, styles, policies, and standards
• Coaching and Mentoring engineering staff in the effective and pragmatic application of software design principles and coding best practices
• Producing and maintaining useful and fit for purpose documentation of work, and contributing regularly to the general Engineering body of knowledge
• Building a strategic network of partnerships and relationships with individuals inside and outside of the engineering organization
• Effectively collaborating with architects on cross-portfolio and enterprise-wide initiatives

Strategic & Enterprise

• Contributing to the definition of technical strategy and, formal architecture delivery roadmaps for your assigned portfolio area
• Making architectural decisions that impact on the entire distributed Payments platform
• Assisting in establishing technical direction with a sound and pragmatic approach
• Monitoring new technologies, applications of technology, and opportunities to leverage technology as a differentiator for your assigned portfolio area
• Pinpointing strengths and weaknesses in the Payments platform, and effectively advocate for appropriate solutions to weaknesses
• Communicating direction in terms that are meaningful to individuals and teams across the engineering group
• Contributing to build vs. buy decisions.

Delivery

• Leading Architecture and Design activities throughout the delivery lifecycle
• Verifying code quality and implementation alignment with design decisions and platform guidance
• Creating architectural mechanisms and core components to address concerns that have platform-wide impact
• Contributing to the estimation and prioritization of work items
• Participating in coding activities that are in support of design outcomes - up to 50% of the time depending on the project