The details of Solution Architect - Payments - Mumbai job in Tata Communications
Position:- Solution Architect - Payments - Mumbai
Work Location:- Mumbai
Date Posted :- Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Responsibilities:-
Key Objective / Purpose of the Job :-
- You shall be part of the Technology team dealing with all Payment Systems involving front-end devices (ATMs, kiosks, POS/payment terminals, mobile touchpoints etc.), switches (acquiring, issuing, reconciliation & settlement) and cards (credit, debit, prepaid etc.). The Solutions Architect is expected to conceptualize and design a technology solution to a business need or problem of our customers.
- The Solutions Architect is expected to liaise with the relevant Project Manager and is involved in solution delivery at the stages of concept, design, testing, training and "pilot" implementation. Basically, a Solution Architect shall carry bottom-line responsibility for creating a technically robust solution and assisting other technical members of the team, as and when required, to design, develop, test and implement all the technical deliverables.
Major Activities :-
- Understand customer requirements working independently or with a business analyst and conceptualize technology solutions
- Design, validate & detail the technical solution and be a reference point for all technical requirements for the end-solution
- Work with the technical team on the overall requirements and guide them on the right approach in terms of design, development, integration, testing etc.
- Provide consultative sales support including presentations to and meetings with prospective clients as well as provide support for creating proposals by accurately determining time and cost of integration and implementation of systems.
- Leverage extensive knowledge of industry standards and software development skills to make technical recommendations on complex problem resolution, always with an approach that utilizes repeatable, efficient processes and best practices.
- Act as a mentor and coach to technical consultants by sharing business or technical expertise.
- Ensure customer satisfaction through quality work and effective communication throughout projects.
- Track, document status and time spent on customer deliverables.
- Participate in internal projects that help scale the organization, implement best practices, and improve our methodology and quality of integrations.
- Review technical quality of customer deliverables.
Requirements:-
a) Essential Qualifications :
- BE/Any other relevant graduate technical degree
- Additional relevant professional certifications will be an advantage.
b) Requisite Skills :-
Technical :-
- A Solutions Architect should possess a high level of technical expertise in different areas of the Payments domain including front-end touchpoints (ATM, POS, IVR, Mobile phones etc.), payment switches, credit / debit / prepaid cards including areas involving end-to-end security, compliance, certification etc.
- Exposure on Financial Inclusion projects, solution design preferred,
- Experience and knowledge regarding ‘Payment hHub’ an advantage
- Sound experience with Networking components (Routers, Switches, Firewalls, VLANs etc.)
- Experience with defining and analyzing Hardware related requirements (Servers, Backup, Replication, Storage, Virtualization etc.)
- Deep exposure to n-tier application architecture, system integration, high availability, end-to-end testing including performance testing, disaster recovery, challenges in field deployments etc.
- Good knowledge of Security standards like PCI-DSS, PA-DSS with sound knowledge in data and transaction security especially end-to-end Key management and PIN encryption
- Past hands-on development expertise will be an added advantage
Behavioral :-
- Good analytical and communication skills
- Ability to interact with senior management of the company and enlist their commitment to all Process Improvement initiatives
- Ability to champion and draw support from all staff from the various departments of the company in a tactful manner
- Ability to work in teams and escalate “critical” issues to his/her Supervisor
- Ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines
c) Work Experience :-
- 10-12 years in similar capacity in the Payments space working for IT related Systems Integration house or Service Provider organization similar to TCBIL.
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