Senior Enterprise Architect at Exolve Technologies Limited

Principal Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Direct the overall software development strategy, architecture and process improvements for the VigiPay Payments Platform.
• Identify business requirements that affect the enterprise architecture and provide solutions that integrate into the overall architectural vision and strategy.
• Be hands-on in coupling and building generic codes for the Application development
• Provide leadership and expertise in the development of standards, architectural governance, design patterns and IT practices
• Make alignment between technology, people and the business more transparent.
• Responsible for managing the platform development and integrations with SWIFT, Mastercard Payment Gateway Service, NIBSS (all platforms) and Core Banking Applications
• Responsible for ensuring best, efficient and secure global software development practices are adopted by the VigiPay engineers
• Responsible for executing the entire engineering deliverable required to achieve the vision of the VigiPay Platform.

Essential Competencies

• Full life cycle experience; responsible for the development of a complete set of architectural views for an enterprise in accordance with one of the more common architecture frameworks
• Strong cognitive experience in payment systems
• Strong experience with SWIFT Integrations and developing products to interface with the SWIFT network
• Strong experience integrating with the Mastercard Payment Gateway Service
• Strong experience building products to run on all NIBSS Platforms
• Strong experience integrating with various Core Banking Applications
• Strong knowledge of design and architectural patterns.
• Strong experience in building banking, payments and other financial systems is a compulsory requirement.
• Experience of at least one of the commonlyâ€used methods, notations and tools (e.g. MooD,Rational Suite, METIS, Artisan, ISSE, System Architect, UML, RUP).
• Experience of ‘system of systems’ architecture development, partitioning of functionality among applications and components and application interfaces/interoperability concerns.
• Experience of software development methodologies and structured approaches to system development
• Awareness of systems management and operational support tools

Added Advantage:

• A Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer science, Information systems or any other IT related field from any reputable institution
• Certifications in use of EA tools