Solutions Architect

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Solution Architect

Edenred PayTech
Hybrid – Swindon, Wiltshire or Paddington, London
£90,000 - £100,000 plus 10% bonus & benefits

Reporting to – Lead Solution Architect / Head of Architecture

We are currently hiring for a Solution Architect to join our growing Engineering teams here at Edenred PayTech.

Our Solution Architects are responsible for defining and delivering software and solution architectures that support the creation of our new microservices payment platform.

By ensuring the use of best practices and patterns, and defining standards and guidelines for our delivery teams, you will be assessing and recommending emerging practices and technology as part of the Architecture and Design group.

As a Solution Architect at Edenred, you will be somebody who drives and supports innovation and challenges the status quo. You will drive quality and best practice, and cultivate strong working relationships with wider functions.
 

What you will be doing:

• Architectural designs encompassing the target solutions architecture and intermediate states
• Application architecture delivered against requirements for security, scalability, performance, and availability
• Drive quality through the adoption of standards and best practice
• Cultivate close working relationships with engineering & wider technology group
• Lead architecture & design reviews throughout the Development lifecycle. ·
• Drive and support innovation, challenges the status quo
• Support product management, defining and refining solutions architecture to support new product capabilities
• Development teams upskilled to take on design decisions
   

What we want from you:
 

Technical

• Significant commercial experience of
  • Solutions architecture with an emphasis on application systems and microservices
  • Creating architectural blueprints and designs, through collaboration with business owners and other architects
  • AWS infrastructure and services
  • Supporting engineering teams
  • Design practices and modelling
  • DevOps culture and practices
  • OO analysis & design
  • Agile practices
     
• Experience of the following would be highly beneficial:
  • Banking or payment systems

Behavioural

• Strategist – can define and document strategies
• Influencer – can articulate and challenge ideas to get the best outcome for the business
• Collaborator – can articulate and gain consensus for new concepts and technology changes
• Coach & manager – can support and direct architects in day to day and career development

Why Edenred PayTech?

We are a subsidiary of the Edenred group a Mastercard Principal Member, and an FCA Electronic Money Institution, offering a range of cutting-edge services including Payment Processing, UK and SEPA banking solutions, BIN sponsorship, and eWallet provisions.

We work with various clients across Challenger Banking (Monese, Tide, Anytime, and more), Corporate Benefits (Fuel cards, restaurant tickets), and Retail and Travel services (Sainsbury’s, TUI, Argos).

As an Edenred employee, you will get the support and structure that you need to enjoy your work and develop your career while doing what you love and making a difference in a fast-paced and innovative business.

What you will get:

25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays, with an additional 5 days at 5 years’ service, and 1 day a year up to 35 days in total

Hybrid working environment (min. 3 days a week office based)

Income protection

Life insurance (4x salary)

Wellbeing Employee Assistance Program (extended access to family members)

Employee discount shopping platform

Digital learning platform

Complimentary fruit and other ‘in-office’ snacks & and refreshments

Volunteering programme

Social events

Pension Scheme – employer 6% with minimum employee contribution 3%

Discretionary bonus scheme based on company and personal performance

Holiday trading scheme (buy or sell up to 5 days)

Medical & international travel cover (leisure and action sports)

Monthly gym allowance

Employee referral bonus scheme

Season ticket loan

Cycle to Work scheme

Diversity:

Edenred UK and PPS are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on age, race, colour, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship, marital status or civil partnership/union status, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by applicable country or local laws.

Recruitment:
Edenred PayTech and Payment Solutions maintain a strict preferred supplier list (PSL), which is managed centrally by our Talent Acquisition Lead. The PSL is reviewed on a yearly basis, and we will not accept unsolicited CVs submitted from any supplier outside of the PSL. If an unsolicited CV is subsequently hired, we will not accept liability for any fees incurred. We ask you refrain from contacting our hiring managers directly with profiles, and all requests for engagement are made to our careers email.

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