Senior Architect at Arcadis managing complex design projects. Involving technical leadership, team coordination, and stakeholder engagement for successful project delivery.
About the role
- Lead Architect for PAY at SEB Kort, shaping the architecture of a business-critical card platform. Driving modernisation and consolidation in card payments, billing and collections services.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the target architecture for PAY, ensuring alignment with Card Domain strategy and SEB architecture principles
- Drive consolidation and modernisation initiatives across the PAY landscape (process, data and integration), from discovery to architectural decision and delivery support
- Lead and develop the PAY architecture community (solution architects and tech leads) by setting direction, enabling explorations and shaping enabler work
- Partner with Product Managers and engineering leadership to maximise value delivery while managing risk, compliance and operational stability
- Create and maintain clear architecture documentation, including key decisions, constraints, integration patterns and roadmaps
- Identify and manage architecture debt, lifecycle management (LCM) risks and tactical solutions, ensuring they are prioritised and addressed
- Collaborate with other architects across the Card Domain to design and review end-to-end solutions
Requirements
- At least 5 years professional experience as a solution/lead architect (or similar) in banking, payments, cards or other regulated financial environment
- Strong ability to translate business goals into sustainable architecture, balancing time-to-market, risk, cost and operational stability
- Experience with architecture across different technical platforms, including integration architecture (APIs, messaging/eventing, batch, data integration) and designing end-to-end flows
- Good understanding of data modelling and SQL (any enterprise-grade database experience is relevant)
- Comfort working with governance and regulatory expectations common in finance (security, resilience, auditability)
- Clear communication skills in English and an inclusive, collaborative leadership style
- Experience with IBM Mainframe environments and/or COBOL/DB2, especially in high-volume transaction processing
- Experience with java technology and microservice design
- Knowledge of card/payments value chains (ledger, billing, settlement, collections) and the surrounding ecosystem
- Hands-on experience driving modernisation from legacy platforms (strangler patterns, incremental decomposition, platform enablement)
Benefits
- A key architecture leadership role in a business-critical domain
- A strong professional community of architects and engineers to collaborate with across SEB Kort and the wider SEB Group
- Engaging and interesting work, SEB Kort is always on the move forward.
- A flat hierarchy and openness to share ideas, opinions and points of views
- A culture that values openness, collaboration and sustainable ways of working
- Agile and modern ways of working including adoption of AI
- Extensive training and learning opportunities
- SEB offers excellent office environment and applies a hybrid work policy allowing up to 2 days of working from home.
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