Chief Systems Architect

SwiftXccess; City Of London; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A fintech company is seeking a Chief Systems Architect to lead strategic architecture for merchant payment management solutions. This role offers the flexibility of remote work and requires significant experience in architecture and development, particularly with data-driven solutions. Candidates should possess extensive leadership skills and a deep understanding of technology best practices and integration patterns.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in architecture and development.
• 5+ years of experience in building data driven frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Drive the architecture for key projects.
• Develop architecture that is secure, scalable, and robust.
• Mentor high-performing engineering teams.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Software development best practices

Mentorship

Integration patterns

DevOps practices

Education

B.Tech / MS in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Hadoop

Job description

Overview

SwiftXccess is looking for a Chief Systems Architect, who will provide strategic architecture leadership to project architects and your product partners on large and complex projects for merchant payment management solutions. You understand the business imperatives tied to these strategic projects. You provide technology leadership and are the technical expert on strategic projects, drive the release strategy and guide the delivery of strategic projects aligned to business strategy on innovative payment acceptance, integrated commerce management, powerful risk management and marketing tools. You maintain awareness of dependencies between projects and delivery vision, while ensuring engineering excellence to the five nines. You build the strategy for your teams to architect, design and deliver the next wave of enterprise fintech innovation.

Responsibilities

• Drives the architecture for key cross team / cross product development projects (via architecture/design documents and developing code key modules).
• Establishes software development patterns and best practices via examples and shipping code.
• Ensures that all relevant project teams follow a common set of principles and patterns and utilize a standard set of technology frameworks and libraries.
• Provides leadership across the architecture community to ensure solutions are built in alignment with platform principles and standards.
• Mentors and builds world-class high-performing engineering and data science teams.
• Applies architecture best practices that helps increase execution velocity.
• Develops architectures that are inherently secure, robust, scalable, modular, API-centric and global.
• Influences technology selection for the enterprise.
• Defines deployment topology by working with peers across the technology organization.
• Optimizes use of SwiftXccess’s Platforms & Solutions.

Qualifications

• B.Tech / MS in Computer Science/Computer Engineering, Science, Mathematics
• A minimum of 15+ years of experience in architecture and development, 5+ years experience in building data driven frameworks and solutions
• Proven experience in building highly scalable, flexible and fault tolerant systems
• Proven knowledge of successful design, architecture and development using Hadoop with large data volumes
• Possesses a deep understanding of benefits/drawbacks of different integration patterns
• Continuous delivery and DevOps experience - infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, auditing and security implementation and practices.

Location: London, England or Remote and available during Business Hours; This role is open to remote work as our teams are distributed. We are looking for team members who perform well given a high level of independence and autonomy and will establish a cadence of on-time delivery with high-quality work. SwiftXccess is an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to ensuring a safe and inclusive workplace by welcoming people of all backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. We encourage people from traditionally underrepresented groups to apply. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodations in the application process, please let us know.