Are you ready to write your next chapter? Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. With proven technology, we process the largest volume of payments in the world, driving the global economy every day. When you join Worldpay, you join a global community of experts and changemakers, working to reinvent an industry by constantly evolving how we work and making the way millions of people pay easier, every day. We’re looking for a Systems Architect Specialist to join our ever evolving Gatways and Payments team to help us unleash the potential of every business. Are you ready to make your mark? Then you sound like a Worldpayer. About the team Our Product and Technology teams are the Worldpayers behind the game-changing products and digital experiences we’re best known for. Striving for better, they never stand still — delivering impactful innovations that power transactions across the world. You will be working on our worldwide payment gateway (WPG): one of the largest-by-volume global payment platforms in the world, focussing intensively on robustness, security, and capacity that can process over 800 transactions every second and exceeding 10 million successful payments every day. You will have a specific focus on our acquirer connections and our Omnichannel proposition. As part of an Agile train, you will contribute and support multiple teams to deliver its commitments in a predictable way. You will work closely with each discipline within the Delivery Team (Release Train Engineer, Product Owner, Development and Test) to ensure solution design and implementation is in line with the business requirements. You will also work across platforms with the wider architecture organisation ensuring we have robust end to end solutions as we progress our technology evolution. What you’ll own (5-6 role responsibilities) Work autonomously with our product team and wider architecture team to define requirements for new business and technical problems Produce designs for artefacts that translate business and technical needs into clear solution, that include cross-cutting concerns between domains Analyse requirements and architecture specifications to identify and propose technical solutions Collaborate with engineering team to brainstorm and pick best solutions for a problem within the constraints of the system Peer review solutions of other designers in the team Work closely with the delivery teams to ensure that solutions are understood and successfully realised Work on Improving the technical architecture by tracking emerging technologies, evaluating their applicability to business goals and operational requirements Provide solution design leadership and accountability for all your design work Liaise with stakeholders and external teams to research and fully explore the requirements and their context Assist with investigation of live system issues and propose solutions to address the root cause Continuously review and improve delivery processes to enable high quality and fast delivery Understands the system interfaces and interactions with other components of the platform; aligning requirements with the outer systems What you bring Can-do attitude and a sense of responsibility for the wider implications of software engineering. A flexible approach necessary for the role as business requirements and their relative priorities are subject to review and change Analytical mind eager to solve complex problems with a habit of attention to detail and a keen focus on the experience of our customers. Ability to work on your own as well as in a team, within an onshore/offshore model Ability to provide direction, expertise, and support to other team members Strong understanding of system architecture and general programming concepts and best practices and ability to lead solutions within them Sound understanding and experience of the Agile software development lifecycle Experience with different requirements tracking systems like JIRA or Rally Working experience with different RDMS or DW (any of Oracle, MS SQL Server, others) and SQL, PL/SQL language Experience of working across the whole software development & support lifecycle Experience of working with offshore partner organizations Strong analytical skills, able to provide support to solve business or production problems Excellent communication skills, able to articulate technical and non-technical issues Responsive, assertive and drive a continuous improvement ethos in all interactions What makes a Worldpayer What makes a Worldpayer? It’s simple: Think, Act, Win. We stay curious, always asking the right questions to be better every day, finding creative solutions to simplify the complex. We’re dynamic, every Worldpayer is empowered to make the right decisions for their customers. And we’re determined, always staying open – winning and failing as one. Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Worldpayer. Apply now to write the next chapter in your career. Team overviews: Product & Technology Development Our Product and Technology teams are the Worldpayers behind the game-changing products and digital experiences we’re best known for. Striving for better, they never stand still — delivering impactful innovations that power transactions across the world. Behaviors overviews: Curious – You ask the right questions, listening and learning to get better every day. Creative - You simplify the complex. Always looking forward to create a bigger impact for our colleagues and customers. Empowered – You use our initiative, taking calculated and thoughtful risks to progress LI-AB1 LI-World Privacy Statement Worldpay is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how Worldpay protects personal information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice. Sourcing Model Recruitment at Worldpay works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. Worldpay does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company. pridepass