Associate Product Architect

Global Payment Holding Company; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payments solutions provider in Belfast is seeking an Associate Product Architect to define product requirements and facilitate collaboration among teams. The ideal candidate will have over 4 years of experience as a Software Engineer and possess strong communication and problem-solving skills. This role offers opportunities for professional growth in a dynamic work environment that values innovation and excellence.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years industry experience as a Software Engineer.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Creative and innovative with the ability to find novel solutions.

Responsibilities

• Gather requirements and present them to Engineering.
• Assist in focusing Engineering efforts on quality product releases.
• Engage with Product Owner for launch planning.

Skills

Problem Solving

Communication

Collaboration

Innovation

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.

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 ensure 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

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 provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.

Employment Type: Full‑Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1