Solution Design Lead

ABOUT TEAM:

The team revolutionizes and enhances the end-to-end payment acceptance experience for our customers and colleagues and delivers a digitized self-service experience along with the latest product innovations, all supported by market leading back-office systems and processes. Merchant Service aims to offer convenient and secure customer payment and merchant solutions to help your business take payments online. Our mission is to lead the market by providing a simple, digital, and integrated ecosystem that can meet all a merchant or health provider's banking needs.

YOUR JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design large scale systems, interacting with other internal large-scale systems.
• Manage & execute the design, development and testing of customer/colleague and technology features and in line with service priorities.
• Lead brainstorming sessions to develop potential solutions for business needs, ideas or problems.
• Present potential solutions to various stakeholders.
• Ensure tech stacks and frameworks being proposed are aligned with architectural direction.
• Define, create and present detailed Solution Design documentation to a diverse group of stakeholders (Architect forum, Design forum, Squad members...).
• Design solutions around risks, privacy, governance, compliance, etc.
• Collaborate with the software engineering teams and project stakeholders to continually deliver customer value.
• Drive AI innovation, adopt corporate AI initiatives i.e.: Agentic AI and others

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN THE ROLE

• Solutions Design Lead (frequent) -clarification of issues, referral for guidance, escalation of problems, review of work
• Architect (frequent) -clarification of requirements and issues, referral for guidance, mutual collaboration, sharing of experience and knowledge
• Applications Specialist (frequent) -clarification of requirements, mutual collaboration to ensure that outcomes are in line with business unit requirements, sharing of experience and knowledge
• Solution Design Colleagues (frequent) -mutual collaboration, sharing of experience and knowledge across teams, peer review and coaching
• Programmers (frequent) -collaborate to develop detailed system design in line with business requirements
• Project Managers (frequent) -assist in the definition of project scoping

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Must have

• Experience of 10+ years in application design and / or development roles and 15+ years in the Technology field and industry.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Deep understanding of microservices architecture including designing and architecting microservices in large scale systems and complex environments
• Understanding of DevOps including the knowledge of testing automation, AWS/Azure cloud, APIs and microservices
• Solid experience in designing and developing RESTful APIs and microservices based system, Event-Driven Architecture (Kafka)
• Experience with Java (Spring boot, Spring Data, Java 8 &11,...), JavaScript/Typescript (NodeJS, ReactJS,...)
• Experience on working with containerised application and container orchestration (e.g. Docker, K8s...)
• Understanding CI/CD and its related tools (e.g. Harness, Jenkins...)
• Strong understanding of Application Security
• Experience in service integration, SDLC
• Experience on applying MS Architecture Patterns (e.g. BFF, API Gateway, Circuit breaker, Saga,...)

Nice-to-have

• Knowledge and experience in the Banking domain
• Solid experience in Agile development environment
• AWS certification / Azure certification