Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.
Position Overview
The Product Architect is responsible for defining product requirements that address market opportunities and meet the demands of the Product Owners. The position involves close interaction with the Product Owners, Software Architects, Engineering Teams and other key stakeholders to ensure Global Payments product development resources are delivering products at quality and velocity. A strong technical background is required, together with a clear focus on business goals and product objectives.
This role plays a significant part in aligning the product vision and engineering efforts with the strategic direction of the company, fostering awareness and appropriate application of this vision at all levels of the organization and ensuring successful rollout of products to the market.
Position Responsibilities
Gather requirements and present them to Engineering in a clear, unambiguous manner
Prioritize and package requirements into executable projects based on various factors (product value, time to market, technical dependencies, operational constraints, regulatory compliance etc.)
Assist in focusing Engineering efforts across the organization with a sound and pragmatic approach towards quality product releases at velocity
Ensure delivered work meets technical, functional, performance and business requirements
Maintain a status dashboard for all ongoing product work
Engage with the Product Owner as part of launch planning and execution for releases
Engage with Technical Ops and Engineering as part of release management
Provide issue resolution and product solution engineering working along Engineering teams and Software Architects
Maintain up-to-date product documentation covering requirements, features, roadmap etc., and ensure Engineering documentation covering design, implementation, testing etc. are up-to-date
Collaborate with Product Owners to ensure product offerings are highly competitive in the face of dynamic market trends and competitor organizations and their products
Communicate strategies in terms that are meaningful to the engineering group
Position Requirements
Essential Criteria
BSc or MSc or equivalent in Computer Science or related field
Tolerant of high degrees of ambiguity, and good at resolving uncertainty and setting direction. Willing to backtrack, seek multiple solutions and experiment to validate approaches
Creative, Investigative, Innovative, Insightful and able to make technical leaps, finding novel solutions
Effective and comfortable working with high-level management
Effective and comfortable working with Engineering teams and Software Architects as part of an end-to-end team
Strong written and oral communication skills including proven success in working with stakeholders with a wide range of technical knowledge
Comfortable working in an environment that is growing rapidly and constantly addressing the inherent challenges
Ability to define roadmaps to execute on project initiatives
Proven experience translating Business Requirements into solutions
Experience in application development
Ability to consider multiple factors in decision making at strategic and tactical levels
Desirable Criteria
Experience in enterprise engineering
Experience with technical solutions across N-Tier systems
Experience as a Product Manager or Product Architect
Familiar with diverse, complex problems and adept at devising reasonable solutions or alternatives
Proven experience designing SOAP XML APIs and RESTful APIs, evolving them over time and ensuring backwards compatibility.
Proven experience authoring UML diagrams and using them to communicate complex solutions to stakeholders.
- Competitive salary
- Flexible, hybrid working from our new office in the heart of Belfast city centre
- 26 days leave (plus Bank holidays) increasing with length of service
- Vitality private medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Life insurance / income protection / critical illness
- Up to 5% matching pension contributions and Salary Sacrifice
- 26 weeks company paid maternity leave
- Cycle to work scheme
- Electric car scheme
- Stock purchase plan
- Twice annual worldwide community volunteering days
- Company social events
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