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.

IT generalist responsible for producing broad scope designs spanning multiple technical domains. These enable the continued evolution and expansion of the Global Payments IT infrastructure to support new clients and new services in line with Global Payments IT technical standards and corporate strategic direction, feeding into and driving that strategic direction at consultant levels. Captures, interprets and understand business requirements and produces costed IT infrastructure solutions to meet these requirements. Provides authoritative technical consultancy across a range of technical areas, facilitating the delivery of solution designs involving teams from different technical and business disciplines. Responsible for maintaining assigned aspects of the Technical Service Catalogue and Technical Build Standards. Involved throughout the project delivery life cycle including, where necessary, delivery of detailed designs, monitoring designs and development of supporting software (scripts, automated business processes, etc.) to affect the integration into the Global Payments operational environment.

• Provide infrastructure solution input into a range of IT projects, including major new client and new platform implementations. Acts as a consultant to wider business project team and as architectural authority on infrastructure solutions
• Leads technical, cross-functional project teams to capture and document functional and non-functional requirements, carrying out IT infrastructure impact analysis and producing high-level Infrastructure Solution Designs for Global Payments architectural approval and business case input.
• Produces and acts as approver for advanced and detailed documentation to include (but not be limited to): High level solutions designs, client-specific solution designs, data flow diagrams, high-level network designs, high-level systems designs, operational model designs, security designs, firewall rule requests, network and server/Operating System selection, configuration recommendations, Access Management configurations, middleware designs, application development recommendations and tools recommendations.
• Proactively engages with internal and client-facing business units to obtain advanced notice of upcoming major projects and initiatives, providing technical consultancy where necessary to help create propositions, business cases and service designs
• Acts as design authority for assigned technical area(s), setting design standards and reviewing and approving other designs against those standards.
• Leverages excellent working relationships with technical specialist teams and application development leads to ensure appropriate input from these areas during the design phase of assigned projects. Also acts as application architectural lead for certain projects.
• Provides authoritative consultancy to both internal and external clients on a range of infrastructure, connectivity and operational subjects, and pre-sales support for Global Payments Business teams, including representing Global Payments at critical client meetings and industry events
• Provides Infrastructure consultancy to the business analysis teams during Discovery process for new clients and produce internal and client-facing Infrastructure Solution Designs as part of the overall Discovery documentation
• Drives operational and organizational change to align with strategic technical plans and business requirements, by building business cases, developing roadmaps and chairing/instigating workshops
• Acting as technical SME, carries out detailed implementation & integration activities for new solutions, including end-to-end orchestration of complex platforms. Acts as technical team lead for implementation/integration activities
• Acting as technical SME, maintains and ensures regular review of assigned Technical Service Catalogue items.
• Acting as technical SME, defines low-level technical standards associated for assigned area
• Owns the definition and regular review of aspects of Global Payments technical architecture strategy, aligning this with business and overall IT strategy
• Acts as a champion for technical change in line with business and IT strategy, producing robust business cases to support multi-million dollar investment in new infrastructure and software solutions

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Relevant Experience or Degree in: BCS Solution Development & Architecture (practitioner level or equivalent); Relevant technology experience (expert level)
• Typically Minimum 8 Years Relevant Exp

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree
• Typically Minimum 8 Years Relevant Exp
• Relevant Technical and Payment/finance industry experience at consultant level

• Skills / Knowledge - Having broad expertise or unique knowledge, uses skills to contribute to development of company objectives and principles and to achieve goals in creative and effective ways. Barriers to entry such as technical committee review may exist at this level.
• Job Complexity - Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles. Exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Creates formal networks involving coordination among groups.
• Supervision - Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments. May supervise the activities of others.
• Solution Architecture - Designs, communicates and approves high-level structures to enable and guide the design and development of standard integrated solutions, meeting current and future business needs.
• Systems Design - Specifies and designs advanced information systems to meet defined business needs.
• Systems Integration - Defines the approach for automation, integration and testing of basic components and/or subsystems and their interfaces in order to create operational services.

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