Associate Product Architect

Global Payments; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payment solutions provider in the UK is seeking an Associate Product Architect to define product requirements and develop scalable solutions. The role requires close collaboration with Product Owners and Engineering teams to ensure successful product rollout. Candidates should have at least 4 years of experience and a degree in Computer Science. Join to help shape the future of payment technology.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of industry experience as a Software Engineer.
• Strong written and oral communication skills with a range of technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable with application development and high degrees of ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Define product requirements that address market opportunities.
• Gather and present requirements to Engineering clearly.
• Prioritize and package requirements for executable projects.
• Ensure delivered work meets technical and business requirements.

Skills

Effective communication

Problem-solving

Collaborative teamwork

Creative thinking

Education

BSc or MSc in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.

Our Company

Global Payments Integrated helps businesses succeed by delivering secure and personalized payment solutions, allowing developers of business management solutions to accept payments through their systems and add value to their software. While many processors offer payments tied to antiquated platforms designed to support stand‑alone systems, the Global Payments Integrated platform provides custom, scalable, and fast payment solution integration – accommodating the swiftly‑shifting ways consumers pay for goods and services. With this visionary payment processing platform, Global Payments Integrated helps business management software companies grow their business through our embedded commerce services, bolster customer loyalty with unique payments solutions, and improve profitability.

This position can either be office or remote based.

Position Overview

The Associate Product Architect is responsible for defining product requirements that address market opportunities and meet the demands of the Product Owners. The position involves close interaction with the Product Architects, Product Owners, Software Architects, Engineering Teams and other key stakeholders to ensure Global Payments product development resources are delivering products at quality and velocity. A strong technical background is required, together with a clear focus on business goals and product objectives.

This role plays a significant part in aligning the product vision and engineering efforts with the strategic direction of the company, fostering awareness and appropriate application of this vision at all levels of the organization and ensuring successful rollout of products to the market.

You will be provided with support, coaching and mentoring from Product Architects enabling yourself and the Team to grow in a collaborative environment.

Position Responsibilities

• Understand the need for designing and delivering robust and scalable solutions
• Gather requirements and present them to Engineering in a clear, unambiguous manner
• Prioritize and package requirements into executable projects based on various factors (product value, time to market, technical dependencies, operational constraints, regulatory compliance etc.)
• Assist in focusing Engineering efforts across the organization with a sound and pragmatic approach towards quality product releases at velocity
• Help with ensuring delivered work meets technical, functional, performance and business requirements
• Help maintain a status dashboard for all ongoing product work
• Engage with the Product Owner as part of launch planning and execution for releases
• Engage with Technical Ops and Engineering as part of release management
• Provide issue resolution and product solution engineering working along with Engineering teams and Software Architects
• Maintain up-to-date product documentation covering requirements, features, roadmap etc., and ensure Engineering documentation covering design, implementation, testing etc. are up-to-date
• Collaborate with Product Owners to ensure product offerings are highly competitive in the face of dynamic market trends and competitor organizations and their products
• Communicate strategies in terms that are meaningful to the engineering group

Position Requirements

Essential Criteria

• BSc or MSc or equivalent in Computer Science or related field
• At least 4 years industry experience as a Software Engineer (can include placement year)
• Tolerant of high degrees of ambiguity, and good at resolving uncertainty and setting direction. Willing to backtrack, seek multiple solutions and experiment to validate approaches
• Creative, Investigative, Innovative, Insightful and able to make technical leaps, finding novel solutions
• Effective and comfortable working with Engineering teams and Software Architects as part of an end‑to‑end team
• Strong written and oral communication skills including proven success in working with stakeholders with a wide range of technical knowledge
• Comfortable working in an environment that is growing rapidly and constantly addressing the inherent challenges
• Experience in application development
• Ability to consider multiple factors in decision making at strategic and tactical levels.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience in enterprise engineering
• Experience with technical solutions across N‑Tier systems
• Familiar with diverse, complex problems and adept at devising reasonable solutions or alternatives.
• Experience diagramming, documenting and communicating complex solutions to stakeholders.
• Understanding of SOAP XML APIs and RESTful APIs.

Equality of Opportunity

Global Payments is committed to diversity and equal opportunities for everyone. We are committed to ensuring that all job applicants and team members are treated equally, without discrimination because of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief. Global Payments Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

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