Technical Architect

TN Ireland; Mid Sussex; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job description

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You deserve to do what you love, and love what you do – a career that works as hard for you as you do. At Fiserv, we are more than 40,000 #FiservProud innovators delivering superior value for our clients through leading technology, targeted innovation and excellence in everything we do. You have choices – if you strive to be a part of a team driven to create with purpose, now is your chance to Find your Forward with Fiserv.

Responsibilities

• Understand business objectives and translate requirements into solutions that provide exceptional user experiences for customers.
• Support and influence selection and adoption of core technologies, development tools and standards in conjunction with other senior colleagues.
• Development of Prototypes and Proof of Concept applications as required to prove new architectures and technologies.
• Contribute to the delivery of high-quality solutions.
• Deliver high quality estimates and outcomes for complex projects.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Provide technical guidance and coaching to engineers to support business and operational partners.

What you will need to have:

• At least 8 years’ experience in software engineering with at least 3 years in an architecture role
• Bachelor’s Degree at College of Engineering and Technology or equivalent work experience.
• Knowledge of payments industry is desirable.
• Good understanding of how technology relates to business, market and industry and applies such knowledge to support the needs of the business.
• Excellent understanding of modern architectural patterns and of how a wide variety of technologies interact with each other to provide excellent user experiences.
• Excellent understanding of business challenges around delivery of digital solutions at pace within a large organisation.
• Have in-depth conceptual functional and non-functional knowledge of: Cloud Technologies - PaaS/IaaS/SaaS - AWS, Azure, etc; Micro-service architectures; Kubernetes; Kafka event driven architecture; Experience of API and service-based architecture; In-memory databases and caching solutions; Knowledge of implementation considerations for UI technologies; High availability and contingency solutions.
• Highly organised and highly competent in solving issues and finding solutions.

What you should know about us:

Fiserv is a global leader in payments and financial technology with more than 40,000 associates proudly serving clients in more than 100 countries. As one of Fortune magazine's "World's Most Admired Companies" 9 of the last 10 years, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and a top scorer on Bloomberg’s Gender-Equality Index, we are committed to innovation and excellence.

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