IPF Solution Architect

Icon Solutions Ltd; Wimbledon; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Icon Solutions is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to lead end-to-end design and engineering for the Icon Payments Framework (IPF) engagements from pre-sales through go-live.

You will combine a strong back-end development background (Java) with modern architectural patterns, agile delivery, and cloud/Microservices expertise to deliver scalable, real-time payment solutions for major banks and financial institutions.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing end-to-end architectures for real-time transactional systems.
• Strong back-end background (Java) and familiarity with software patterns.
• Experience with Agile, DevOps, and cloud-native delivery.

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into technical solution designs for IPF.
• Review and enrich solution designs for engineering teams.
• Lead architecture governance and design authority sessions with clients.
• Collaborate with clients and internal squads to define implementable features.

Skills

Java

CI/CD

Microservices

Event-driven

Stakeholder mgmt

Cloud

Tools

IPF Connectors

Job description

The Icon Payments Framework (IPF) provides institutions with faster and more cost-effective access to payments through an advanced and highly flexible payments specific platform which seamlessly integrates with core and back-office banking applications.

Our Solution Architects play a key role in theend-to-end solution design and engineering leadership for IPF client engagements from pre-sales through to go-live. With broad and deep technology background complimented by an excellent consulting repertoire, the Solution Architect will drive the solution road-map from a capability, technology, integrationand infrastructure perspective.

About You

• Proven experience in a Solution Architect, Technical Architect, Lead Engineer role within financial services or payments technology.
• Significant capability in the design & implementation of end-to-end application and technical architectures for highly concurrent, real-time transactional systems .
• Experienced in conceptual, application, integration, logical and physical modelling .
• Experience ofanalysingand implementing solutions to meet both functional and non-functional requirements .
• Strong back-end development background (e.g. Java) and familiarity with common software patterns and techniques.
• Experience across modern architectural / delivery standards and methods including Agile, TDD, BDD, CI/CD automation, DevOps practices, Cloud and Microservices Architecture .
• Technology enthusiast, avid follower ofnew technologies, designpatternsand architecture styles .
• Experience and appreciation for the Payments Industry and regulatory landscape from both a technical, functionaland business perspective .
• Familiarity with event-driven, reactive architectural patterns such as event sourcing, CQRS and hexagonal architecture .
• Security architecture awareness including identity management,authenticationand role-based access design .
• Strong consulting and stakeholder management skills, with the ability tooperateeffectively in complex, multi-team client environments.

What Do Our Solution Architects Do?

Supporting pre-sales proposals and propositions in the form of client meetings,approachand estimation for solutions.

Review, challenge and enrich solution designs to produce engineering-ready designs for the scrum team, including skeleton Payments flows and Node designs leveraging IPF connectors and flows.

Translating business requirements and non-functionals into technical solution designs.

Working with client, Internal Squads and Product Owners to create implementation features that can be coded by our engineering squads, with regular review sessions to ensure implementation meets the design.

Conducting solution architecture reviews of existing system, providing impact analysis from IPF implementation perspective, and communicating the findings of the review back to stakeholders.

Organising design authority workshops with client and IPF product stakeholders.

Activelyparticipatingin internal and external technical governance committees.

Govern IPF client implementation backlog from a technical and architectural perspective.

Creating andmaintainingstructured solution documentation including integration views, deployment views, sequencediagramsand key design decisions.

Engaging with the IPF product team tovalidate solution feasibility, communicate client requirements and ensure alignment with the product roadmap.

Tracking and communicating architectural risks, issues and dependencies to keep the project team and stakeholders informed.

Contributing to the IPF SA practice through knowledge sharing, patterndocumentationand community engagement.

About Us

Icon Solutions is a fintech company that has been designing and implementing state-of-the-art payments solutions since 2009.

Our core product - the Icon Payments Framework (IPF) - is an internationally proven payments development framework that is trusted by Tier 1 banks across the globe such as Citi, NatWest, UBS and BNP Paribas.

This combines with an international team of payments, architecture, data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) experts, who help clients navigate every step of their transformation journey.