Solutions Architect

JOB DESCRIPTION

Skills and Qualifications

·   A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance

·   Experience in Payments background is must.

·   Executive presentation and presence is required.

·   The ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies

·   The ability to apply architectural principles to business solutions

·   The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and drawings, and articulate their collective relevance to the organization and to high-priority business issues

·   Experience using model-based representations that can be adjusted as required to collect, aggregate or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business

·   The ability to visualize and create high-level models that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture

·   Extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives

·   Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques

·   Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations

·   The ability to act as liaison conveying information needs of the business to IT and data constraints to the business; applies equal conveyance regarding business strategy and IT strategy, business processes and work flow automation, business initiatives and IT initiatives, and benefit realization and service delivery

·   Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus

·   Strong situational analysis and decision making abilities