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About The Role

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 plays a key role in the end 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, integration and infrastructure perspective.

About you:

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 of analysing and implementing solutions to meet both functional and non-functional requirements
Previous hands-on experience with back end development technologies (e.g. Java) and common software patterns + 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 of new technologies, design patterns and architecture styles
Experience and appreciation for the Payments Industry and regulatory landscape from both a technical, functional and business perspective

What do our Solution Architects do?

Supporting pre-sales proposals and propositions in the form of client meetings, approach and estimation for solutions
Understanding and eliciting clients' payments needs in meetings and workshops to produce high level solution overviews based around IPF
Translating business requirements and non-functionals into technical solution designs, which may include contextual, conceptual, logical and physical views of the architecture
Working with client as well as IPF Business Analysts, Product Owners and delivery team to create implementation features that can be coded by our engineering squads
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, actively participating in internal and external technical governance committees / authorities, producing well considered design decisions to unblock solutions as well as providing constructive feedback for others
Work closely with engineering squads, ensure that designs are well understood and organise review sessions to ensure the implementation meets the design
Govern IPF client implementation backlog from a technical and architectural perspective
Providing technical leadership through actions and taking ownership

What do they enjoy the most?

Seeing the solutions we devise to problems in action with long standing clients.
Being supported to continually research, learn and refine specialist knowledge.
Working in a truly collaborative environment where ideas and knowledge are freely shared.

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About Us

Icon Solutions is a leading specialist provider of services and technology solutions that are simplifying banking transformation.

Icon is the past, present and future of payments. With a proven record delivering mission-critical solutions for global institutions, it is driving the next-generation of banking and payments architecture. Icon combines industry-leading domain experts, services, accelerator assets and technology that empower customers to solve problems, fight complexity and embrace change.

Icon has applied its payments, technical and integration expertise to create IPF: a low-code, cloud-native, open-source technology platform to accelerate payments transformation.

Icon’s clients include leading global banks such as BNP Paribas, HSBC, NatWest and Lloyds Banking Group.

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