Technology Architect

About the role

This position will form part of the Entersekt Architecture function, which reports to the CTO. Your role will be to help identify areas where Entersekt can innovate to win and eliminate areas where we cannot establish a competitive edge. This will involve understanding the financial services industry, the current solutions in the market, and emerging trends. You will explore new technologies and associated architectures and understand how different industry solutions work. You'll recommend architectural and design approaches to how Entersekt should integrate with these products and industries and identify areas where we can add value or compete. You will also support and enable our engineering teams to get value from our existing product architecture and adjust it where it's not optimal. In this role you'll collaborate with other internal and external stakeholders such as business development, product, engineering and solutions teams, our customers, current and potential partners and other industry stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Technical Architecture
• Integrate knowledge of the overarching business strategy when exploring programs and projects within the CTO division.
• Advise on the technical direction and help drive initiatives within the CTO function that could stretch across multiple divisions.
• Where required, explore new concepts and techniques and execute on the research and development of initiatives within the CTO function.
• Design and define principles for our Product Architecture.
• Define technical specifications and algorithms where needed.
• Analyse industry trends and produce reports and recommendations.
• Monitor and assess current architectural adoption across the business and help define strategies to synthesize and integrate them.
• Provide technical leadership, make recommendations and collaborate with Product Development to ensure the technical architecture direction is well understood and can be executed on.
• Innovation
• Identify innovation opportunities by detecting inefficiencies or change drivers inside the financial services industry.
• Design the high-level structure of new technology solutions. This also includes identifying potential roadblocks.
• Solve unique and ambiguous problems with broad impact; typically oversee standards, controls and operating methods that have a strategic impact on the business.
• Provide and co-create innovation and exploration ideas; help manage and prioritize these; define approaches to validate/qualify these concepts.
• Engage with new third-party providers and partners to understand their offering; define potential combined use cases or opportunities to explore together.
• Industry & Partners
• Anticipate emerging technology and architectural trends and regulatory/risk issues as a basis for recommending large-scale product, technical, functional or operational improvements.
• Keep up to date with industry

Benefits

Additional Information

Why Entersekt Founded over 16 years ago, with more recent investments from Accel-KKR, Entersekt is a leader in digital banking fraud prevention and payment security, including mobile authentication, mobile app security, and 3D Secure authentication for issuers, acquirers and payment networks. We offer highly scalable products with a track record of success across multiple continents. Entersekt enables secure digital transactions for leading financial institutions globally. We exist to create a world where everyone can transact digitally without fear or compromise. Currently, we protect the digital transactions of over 210 million active users on our platform and hold 120 active patents that recognize innovation in digital security, payments, and user experience. Entersekt offers customers secure authentication and digital payments experiences that remove unnecessary friction. Entersekt has a diverse product portfolio and aggressive roadmap that positions the company well to sustain competitive advantage as it expands globally with emphasis on North America and European markets. The Ideal Candidate You're a senior engineer or architect with deep experience with architectural patterns and solution designs, preferably in cloud-native SaaS, regulated financial services or information security sectors. You can work independently to understand a new industry and its associated standards, products and technologies, and then capture and share the distilled knowledge. You can define standards and principles for how Entersekt should design its products to achieve our future vision. You communicate clearly, and you naturally collaborate to find the right solution. You enjoy learning about new technologies and architectures, solving real business problems and building prototypes and POCs. You can hold your own with senior software engineers and take their input, while also helping them build and design in a more re-usable way. Your work should be clear and understandable to business stakeholders, technical stakeholders, and external customers/partners.

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