Software Architect - Dundee, United Kingdom - NCR Atleos Limited

Description

About NCR Atleos

NCR Atleos, headquartered in Atlanta, is a leader in expanding financial access. Our dedicated 20,000 employees optimize the branch, improve operational efficiency and maximize self-service availability for financial institutions and retailers across the globe.

Position: Software Architect

Location: Dundee, UK (Hybrid)

Position Summary

You are passionate about technology, best practice, and good design. Everywhere you look, there's possibility, opportunity, boundaries to push, and challenges to solve.

Your solutions result in clean architecture and design leading to high quality, feature rich solutions. You enjoy working closely with highly skilled development teams to build out your vision. You don't see problems; instead, aided by your strong technical and testing skills, you see boundaries to push and challenges to solve. You understand the benefits of reuse and open-source software to decrease time to market. You are on top of trends throughout the industry and are always looking for how they can improve our solutions.

You will be joining the NCR Atleos Software Engineering organization, working directly with the Vice President of Software Architecture, other architects, and several software development teams that build our go-to-market products. In this role, you will be key in defining, promoting, implementing, and overseeing key architectural standards and frameworks that enable business success and ensure the scalability, maintainability, and reliability of our products.

Curious? Read on. We're looking for a Software Architect like you.

Position responsibilities:

• Working with other senior Software Engineering leads, SMEs, and architects to determine the appropriate architectures, technologies, and tooling to use.
• Articulating the Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) and architecting the solutions and standards to meet those NFRs.
• Help to define, promote, and maintain architectural standards that are leveraged across development teams, and that support the cloud and on-prem products they build.
• Produce and maintain architectural artifacts including diagrams & presentations.
• Manage and prioritize architectural and technical backlogs.
• Be 'hands-on', assisting teams by:
• Guiding on adopting and implementing best practices and architectural standards.
• Reviewing the teams' designs and implementations to ensure alignment with the approved architecture.
• Providing ongoing technical guidance to team members as required.
• Helping to troubleshoot issues in production.
• Working with QA specialists to ensure adequate automated, performance, and resilience testing.
• Working with DevOps & SRE specialists to create and enhance our build, deployment, and operational monitoring capabilities.
• Working with NCR Atleos Professional Services, other stakeholders, and end Customers to understand end user pain points, requirements, and solution architectures.
• Meeting with stakeholders to clearly communicate status, issues, and options.
• Feeding into project planning, product roadmaps, and prioritization activities.
• Keep abreast of emerging trends, architecture and design patterns, software development practices, tools, and technologies.
• Be seen as a technical leader that fosters a culture of support, best practice, excellence, openness, and continuous improvement.

Basic Requirements

• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of leading architecture & designs for high-transaction processing systems.
• 3+ year of working with Microservices, Dockers, Kubernetes in public cloud environments.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, ideally Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or AWS.
• Java, Spring, or .NET Core Cloud development experience.
• Experience designing and implementing micro-service architecture.
• Experience articulating NFRs and architecting the solution to meet them in conjunction with business/product and engineering teams.
• Experience working in a scrum, agile project.
• Experience leading design of new projects.
• Experience evaluating, selecting, and coordinating technology choices.
• Strong analytic and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent presentation skills.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience working in a Scaled Agile environment, such as SAFe and supporting a multi-scrum team development project.
• Certification in one or more cloud technologies.
• Experience working with high volume transaction systems.
• Experience with developing software for Financial Institutions.
• Experience with compliance standards such as PCI and SOX.

**Visit our careers site for a list of the benefits offered in your region in addition to a competitive base salary and strong work/family programs.

Offers of employment are conditional upon passage of screening criteria applicable to the job.

EEO Statement

NCR Atleos is an equal-opportunity employer. It is NCR Atleos policy to hire, train, promote, and pay associates based on their job-related qualifications, ability, and performance, without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, marital status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, medical condition, military or veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Statement to Third Party Agencies

To ALL recruitment agencies: NCR Atleos only accepts resumes from agencies on the NCR Atleos preferred supplier list. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, NCR Atleos employees, or any NCR Atleos facility. NCR Atleos is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes.