Job Description

Who we are:

You\'ll be joining the 6th largest IT Service Provider, present in more than 50 countries. From our roots in Japan, NTT DATA\'s mission is to facilitate business change and technology transformation across many industries for a better future for our business, people and community. Some of the projects we have supported include the digitising of The Open golf tournament and applying Formula 1 technology to support medical staff at University Hospitals Leicester.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values of \'Clients First\', \'Teamwork\' and \'Foresight\' and we achieve these by putting people first.

We support and celebrate our differences and preferences, these are what makes us unique. Some of our initiatives, collectively known as \xe2\x80\x9cDO Diversity\xe2\x80\x9d, aim to create a space for us to learn and get involved in building a truly diverse environment. Our Culture & Ethnicity Network gives our colleagues a platform to share their various backgrounds; Our NINGEN programme allows the new generation of NTT DATA employees around the world to connect and shape the future of our organisation and the \xe2\x80\x9cCity Gives Back\xe2\x80\x9d allows us to support our local community that has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic...and much more!

What you\'ll be doing:

We are looking for a Senior Payments Architect to join our growing Banking and Financial Markets practice.

As a Payments Architect, you will be managing requirements within a Payments project. Taking responsibility for the driving the strategy, managing the process of discovery and refinement of functional and technical requirements, progressing options and ensuring there is a value based prioritisation approach.

Working with the product owner and relevant stakeholders you will be responsible for both clarifying acceptance criteria/ business logic and providing delivery options to make decisions based on their value, as well as coaching them on product management agile outputs and capabilities.

Through collaboration with business teams and end users you will review and understand the business needs, shaping them within a product backlog in collaboration with functional SMEs. You will add value through problem solving by identifying gaps and inefficiencies in current processes, procedures, and operating models and recommend or design an optimal future state.

What you\'ll need:

We will provide you with an excellent platform to develop your career but we are looking for you to have already demonstrated a proven record of accomplishment as a Payments Architect, with a strong knowledge of Payments value chain and regulations and significant experience with agile methodologies and common tooling.

You will have excellent stakeholder management, oral and written communication skills, interpersonal and consultative skills and be able to take ownership and deal with issues directly, identifying solutions to minimising escalations.

You will also have expertise in;

• Domain experience in SWIFT, SEPA and other UK payment infrastructure BACS, CHAPS)
• Knowledge of payments regulatory and compliance requirements e.g. payments screening
• Hands on experience with payments architecture and best practices e.g. event driven architecture, APIs
• Value management & prioritisation techniques
• Using modern software development toolsets including DevOps, Continuous Integration and Delivery

...and finally:

The focus on Clients First, Teamwork and Foresight is in our DNA and we are looking for someone who shares and embodies these core values, leading by example.

We don\'t look for finished articles. We look for people who want to continue their career growth alongside NTT DATA \'s.

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