Are you ready to write your next chapter?
Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. With proven technology, we process the largest volume of payments in the world, driving the global economy every day. When you join Worldpay, you join a global community of experts and changemakers, working to reinvent an industry by constantly evolving how we work and making the way millions of people pay easier, every day.
We’re looking for a Senior Systems Architect to join our ever evolving Gateways and Payments team to help us unleash the potential of every business.
Are you ready to make your mark? Then you sound like a Worldpayer.
About the team
Our Product and Technology teams are the Worldpayers behind the game-changing products and digital experiences we’re best known for. Striving for better, they never stand still — delivering impactful innovations that power transactions across the world.
You will be working on our worldwide payment gateway (WPG): one of the largest-by-volume global payment platforms in the world, focussing intensively on robustness, security, and capacity that can process over 800 transactions every second and exceeding 20 million successful payments every day. You will have a specific focus on our acquirer connections and our Omnichannel proposition. As part of an Agile train, you will contribute and support multiple teams to deliver its commitments in a predictable way. You will work closely with each discipline within the Delivery Team (Release Train Engineer, Product Owner, Development and Test) to ensure solution design and implementation is in line with the business requirements. You will also work across platforms with the wider architecture organisation ensuring we have robust end to end solutions as we progress our technology evolution.
What you’ll own
Work autonomously with our product team and wider architecture team to define requirements for new business and technical problems
Produce designs for artefacts that translate business and technical needs into clear solution, that include cross-cutting concerns between domains
Analyse requirements and architecture specifications to identify and propose technical solutions
Collaborate with engineering team to brainstorm and pick best solutions for a problem within the constraints of the system
Peer review solutions of other designers in the team
Work closely with the delivery teams to ensure that solutions are understood and successfully realized.
Work on improving the technical architecture by working closely with our Enterprise Architects to ensure changes align with our target architecture.
Provide solution design leadership and accountability for all your design work.
Liaise with stakeholders and external teams to research and fully explore the requirements and their context
Assist with investigation of live system issues and propose solutions to address the root cause
Continuously review and improve delivery processes to enable high quality and fast delivery.
Understands the system interfaces and interactions with other components of the platform; aligning requirements with the outer systems
What you bring
Can-do attitude and a sense of responsibility for the wider implications of software engineering. A flexible approach necessary for the role as business requirements and their relative priorities are subject to review and change.
Analytical mind eager to solve complex problems with a habit of attention to detail and a keen focus on the experience of our customers.
Ability to work on your own as well as in a team, within an onshore/offshore model
Ability to provide direction, expertise, and support to other team members
Strong understanding of system architecture and general programming concepts and best practices and ability to lead solutions within them
Sound understanding and experience of the Agile software development lifecycle
Experience with different requirements tracking systems like JIRA or Rally
Working experience with different RDMS or DW (any of Oracle, MS SQL Server, others) and SQL, PL/SQL language
Experience of working across the whole software development & support lifecycle
Experience of working with offshore partner organizations
Strong analytical skills, able to provide support to solve business or production problems
Excellent communication skills, able to articulate technical and non-technical issues
Responsive, assertive and drive a continuous improvement ethos in all interactions
What makes a Worldpayer
What makes a Worldpayer? It’s simple: Think, Act, Win. We stay curious, always asking the right questions to be better every day, finding creative solutions to simplify the complex. We’re dynamic, every Worldpayer is empowered to make the right decisions for their customers. And we’re determined, always staying open – winning and failing as one.
Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Worldpayer. Apply now to write the next chapter in your career.
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Sourcing Model
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