Key Responsibilities
1.Design and Engineering leadership :
·Lead in representing agreed Flexpay6 design within the local development team/s.
·Reflect and embed Flexpay6 design understanding, principles, frameworks etc with local development team/s.
·Contribute to the system design for Flexpay6 product stream or technology area.
·Incorporate industry best practice design and implementation techniques in architectural support
·Consider engineering trade-offs in design, ensuring good balance in proposed solutions, extensibility, flexibility & maintainability of design and feed into architectural discussion.
·Assist in technical decision making for product architecture and implementation. Take engineering team on the “design journey”,collaborate, and be an evangelist for architecture and technology area.
·Design, documentation and communication of system engineering specifications and product software architecture specifications, based on:
§direction provided by chief and senior architects
§market requirements provided by product management, including certification requirements
§company requirements around quality, maintainability, testability and related measures
·Collaborate with architecture team and product management to ensure product software designs fit appropriately into the Invenco product range
·Work closely with Security team to ensure all software designs are compliant with relevant security standards, and documented appropriately to facilitate product certifications in a timely, risk free manner.
·System engineering specifications and product software architecture specifications peer reviewed and accepted by architecture, engineering and product management teams.
·Review software team output for quality and alignment to architectural designs – provide corrective feedback and/or refine designs as necessary
·Regularly review defects and performance characteristics of technology area and ensure that these are resolved appropriately.
·Training and education of staff on system engineering designs and software architecture specifications.
·Provide mentoring & guidance to development teams, enabling others to contribute to design work and encourage architectural thinking
2.Payments Technology and Certification:
·Develop and maintain a deep understanding of payments technology and certifications using this toinform an understanding of constraints and implications for design.
·Design, develop and maintain product security justifications and associated documentation for PCI, CC etc.Work with the Certification manager to ensure that products are certified in a timely, risk free manner.
·Keep abreast of payment technology and certification trends and developments.
·Training and education of staff on payment technology and certification technologies and trends.
3.Technology
·Keep abreast of product and technology trends.
·Contribute to the product, technology, research roadmaps in conjunction with other architects, product manager and other leadership.
·Attend relevant technology and payment trade shows and events, presenting to staff on return.
4.Flexpay 6 Design & Development and documentation
·Contribute to requirement gathering, specification creation and design as required leadthe development team in design/building of new functionality and modifications to existing functionality.
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