Careers at Realex

Primary Accountabilities

The Application Architect will work in a team of enterprise system architects, each one relatively focused in the specific domain area for which they are most competent, but all closely cooperating as a team under the management of the Head of Enterprise IT. You will define, implement and maintain the overall IT application architecture ensuring that it aligns with corporate goals and objectives, providing leadership and guidance to all stakeholders. 

Responsibilities

• Define the application architecture in line with business strategic objectives – providing an organisational view of all technical elements of the application needed to deliver a real time, constantly available, secure environment;
• Develop and maintain the application architecture, frameworks and standards - ensuring full compliance with all relevant external and internal policies, standards and in accordance with the business continuity and disaster recovery plans;
• Maintain a comprehensive body of company documentation detailing the policies and standards for IT application architecture; including the entity model, processing logic and user interfaces;
• Drive the necessary projects to deliver the application roadmap;
• Drive the evaluation and selection of the required technical products;
• Provide solution design input and capability for IT development projects and ensure all developments are completed to the architecture;
• Monitor new technologies and analyse their applicability to the business;
• Assess business cases, proposals and deliverables to determine impact on and compliance with the application architecture, including sizing, performance and capacity planning.
  

Experience & Skills

• At least seven years or more relevant IT experience, of which at least four in relevant enterprise roles;
• Academic qualifications in the area of Information Technology;
• Work experience in a financial services environment would be an advantage;
• Ability to translate business requirements to technical specifications;
• In depth technical understanding of real time processing environments;
• Experience of Linux and Windows, Java/Perl/ASP, MSSQL, IIS, and JBoss;
• Demonstrated aptitude towards problem identification, resolution, comprehension and interpretation of technical procedures;
• Good process analysis and mapping skills;
• Excellent communication skills, with ability to explain complicated processes and concepts to non-experts.

 

Apply in confidence to jobs@realexpayments.com
The position is required immediately.
Realex Payments, Castlecourt, Monkstown Farm, Monkstown, Co. Dublin, Ireland. Tel + 353 1 280 8559