Lead Engineer/Architect (Payment Gateways) -Banking – Edinburgh
Salt Search
- Edinburgh
- £500-700 per day
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead the integration of the FPS gateway with internal systems and external partners, ensuring seamless and secure communication.
- Perform regular performance monitoring, tuning, and capacity planning to optimize the FPS gateway’s performance and scalability.
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to the FPS gateway in a timely manner, ensuring minimal impact on operations.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product management, operations, and security to understand requirements and implement solutions.
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends, regulations, and best practices related to faster payments and payment gateway technologies.
- Collaborate with third-party vendors and service providers to enhance and expand the capabilities of the FPS gateway as needed.
- Participate in the planning and execution of disaster recovery and business continuity procedures to ensure the resilience of the FPS gateway infrastructure.
- Extensive experience in designing, developing, and maintaining payment gateways, with a focus on Faster Payments Scheme (FPS) or other instant payment systems.
- Expertise in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure).
- In-depth knowledge of payment protocols and standards such as ISO 20022, ISO8583, and ISO8583 to ISO20022 conversion libraries/mapping.
- Experience with message queuing systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) and stream processing frameworks (e.g., Kafka Streams).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
- Proven leadership experience, with the ability to mentor and guide junior team members.