Solution Designer - Digital

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The team revolutionises and enhances the end-to-end payment acceptance experience for our customers and colleagues and delivers a digitised self-service experience along with the latest product innovations, all supported by market leading back-office systems and processes.

YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Design large scale systems, interacting with other internal large-scale systems. 

• Manage & execute the design, development and testing of customer / colleague and technology features and in line with service priorities. 

• Lead brainstorming sessions to develop potential solutions for business needs, ideas or problems. 

• Present potential solutions to various stakeholders. 

• Ensure tech stacks and frameworks being proposed are aligned with architectural direction. 

• Define, create and present detailed Solution Design documentation to a diverse group of stakeholders (Architect forum, Design forum, Squad members...). 

• Design solutions around risks, privacy, governance, compliance, etc. 

• Collaborate with the software engineering teams and project stakeholders to continually deliver customer value. 

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN THE ROLE 

• Solutions Design Lead (frequent) -clarification of issues, referral for guidance, escalation of problems, review of work 

• Architect (frequent) -clarification of requirements and issues, referral for guidance, mutual collaboration, sharing of experience and knowledge 

• Applications Specialist (frequent) -clarification of requirements, mutual collaboration to ensure that outcomes are in line with business unit requirements, sharing of experience and knowledge 

• Solution Design Colleagues (frequent) -mutual collaboration, sharing of experience and knowledge across teams, peer review and coaching 

• Engineering Managers & Development Teams(frequent) -collaborate to develop detailed system design in line with business requirements 

• Release Train Engineers (frequent) -assist in the definition of project scoping 

 

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE 

Must have: 

• Experience of 10+ years in application design and / or development roles and 15+ years in the Technology field and industry. 

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills 

• Deep understanding of microservices & micro frontend architecture including designing and architecting microservices in large scale integrating self-contained systems and complex environments 

• Understanding of DevOps including the knowledge of testing automation, AWS/Azure cloud,  APIs and microservices, app hosting concepts 

• Solid experience in designing and developing RESTful APIs and microservices-based system, Event-Driven Architecture (Kafka) 

• Experience with Java (Spring boot, Spring Data, Java 8 &11,...), JavaScript/Typescript (NodeJS, ReactJS,...),  

• Experience on working with containerised application and container orchestration (e.g. Docker, K8s...) 

• Understanding CI/CD and its related tools (e.g. Harness, Jenkins...) 

• Strong experience in designing with Application Security (PoLP), Cloud Security practices  

• Experience on applying MS Architecture Patterns (e.g. FFB/BFF, API/Client/Service Gateway, Circuit breaker, Saga,...) 

• Experience in service integration, SDLC 

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