What’s the opportunity?

An employee playing this role is expected to

• Be a subject matter expert aware of the Bank’s needs and strategy, and Zafin’s product capabilities.
• Understand customer needs and strategy, in the context of enterprise banking technology, including core banking, product and pricing, channels and integration.
• Develop architecture for complex business and technical needs across multiple groups.
• Provide architectural blueprints to the development teams.
• Ensure that the architecture and design cater to the non-functional requirements specified.
• Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommend innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization.
• Lead and manage customer engagements from a technology and integration perspective.
• Be a part of a collaborative cross-functional squad delivering value to a customer.
• Be a subject matter expert aware of both the customer’s technology needs and our product capabilities.
• Be a coach and a guide consulting with the customer on the right way to implement solutions to address business problems.
• Own accountability of the value delivered to the customer.
• Lead and perform in a customer facing role

Mode of Work: Hybrid

What will you do?

• Research, select, prototype, implement, evaluate, approve progress of architecture/design solutions.
• Articulate technology solutions to address business problems.
• Architect, design and implement software and systems solutions.
• Define technology architecture within the context of the overall enterprise business framework.
• Develop technology architecture strategy based on situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations of clients.
• Define the data shared across the enterprise and the relationships between data in relation to their impact and use from a technology and strategic perspective.
• Support and align efforts to meet customer business needs as a part of software delivery
• Participate in requirements elicitation
• Conduct discovery and JAD sessions
• Create, review and present specification documents
• Conduct walkthroughs to clarify customer requirements
• Work with senior team members to present product capabilities to customers and partners
• Work with team members to determine system objectives, constraints and solve design problems
• Provide architectural blueprints to the development teams 
• Ensure that the architecture and design caters to the non functional requirements specified
• Verify configurations as a part of acceptance before software delivery to customer
• Communicate proactively with customers and internal team members to deliver business value as a part of daily work management
• Identify new methodologies for making development more cost effective
• Assist team members in conducting regular design and code reviews and document software designs 
• Train and guide junior members of the team to obtain necessary product and project knowledge
• Support team in developing product and customer knowledge base
• Support pre-sales efforts to acquire new customers and projects

What do you need to succeed?

Must haves:

• Degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent experience
• Domain knowledge of banking and financial institutions and/or large enterprise IT environment

Experience:

• 7+ years of technology design experience including systems, applications or architecture
• 7+ years of experience with cloud architecture, framework and design patterns
• 5+ years of experience in working with teams building microservices
• Knowledge and understanding in working with third party hosted solutions

Technical Skills:

• Core Java, Spring Boot
• Web Services : REST, SOAP
• Kafka,
• Design Patterns
• Familiarity using development tools : IDE, Unit testing tools, Build tools, Source control and code review tools