Product Architect - Financial Services

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We're looking for a talented Product Architect to join our Financial Services Product Team.

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Company: Xero

Location: Wellington

Work type: Full Time

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Phone: +64-9-254-2571

Fax: +64-9-510-8880

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Detail information about job Product Architect - Financial Services. Terms and conditions vacancy

  • Do you have experience in designing service oriented architecture solutions?
  • Contribute to Xero's long term vision within our Financial Services team.
  • Improve our development practices and processes by bringing your ideas to Xero

At Xero we are rewiring the small business economy and want millions of small businesses to thrive through beautiful software, advice and connections. We aim to make being a small business more efficient and profitable for small business owners, and more enjoyable too.

Right now we are looking for an innovative Product Architect to join our Financial Services Product Team.

As a Product Architect, the focus of your role will be to contribute to the technical vision of the payments portfolio and guide our development teams to bring that vision to life, enabling them to ship high-quality features quickly with confidence and accuracy.


What you’ll do:

  • You’ll work within the Financial Services Architecture team to define Xero’s architecture strategy and long-term direction within our Payments portfolio.
  • You’ll build strong relationships with key stakeholders such as the Development Manager and Product Manager, to ensure a shared understanding of the business requirements while championing the non-functionals, architecture guidelines and strategies.
  • Drawing on your own experiences and based on good engineering practices, you’ll guide and influence the development teams to design, build and deliver high quality features quickly, with confidence and accuracy, balancing long-term direction with current needs.
  • You’ll work with the development teams to identify technical debt and related issues for prioritisation and resolution. With the Product Manager, you’ll define and prioritise the technical roadmap within the product backlog.
  • You’ll look to improve our development practices and processes, striving for excellence, by proactively bringing new ideas into Xero.
  • You’ll facilitate and lead discussions to ensure we have the right tools available for the job.
  • You’ll use your wealth of experience and knowledge to provide training, coaching and mentoring where needed.<span


What you’ll bring with you:

Soft skills-

  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to simplify and articulate highly technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
  • Good stakeholder management and relationship building skills.
  • Leadership ability to create, articulate, mentor and advocate the vision and technical and semantic direction for a product and systems architecture.
  • Business Analysis skills and associated problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
  • An innovative and positive team player with a ‘can do’ attitude.
  • Good time management and prioritisation skills.

Technical skills-

  • Experience in designing service oriented architecture solutions.
  • Good understanding and experience measuring and designing for non-functionals, like reliability, availability, security, maintainability, performance and scalability.
  • Familiarity with multiple software development methodologies and styles.
  • Good understanding of systems design, ideally with Software as a Service Products.
  • Software development skills, ideally C# or other Object Oriented Programming languages.
  • Relational databases and knowledge of NoSQL databases.
  • Good understanding of AWS.
  • Data and Statistical Analysis skills.
  • Exposure to the FinTech, Financial Services or Payments space will also be an advantage.

We’re looking for innovative leaders who love collaborate and work with teams deliver solutions to tens of thousands of users globally with each release, who have the tenacity to take on the relentless pace of FinTech disruption within a supportive, outcome oriented product culture!


Ready for the challenge?

Apply now with your CV and Cover Letter, telling us why you would make an awesome Product Architect at Xero!

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