Software Architect

CloudPay is the leading global pay solution and winner of GPA’s Payroll Software Supplier of the year award 2021. Listed as a top 100 software company by The Software Report, we provide all employees pay processes - including payroll, payments, and on-demand pay through our cutting-edge SaaS platform and mobile app.

CloudPay draws on 25+ years’ experience to manage global payroll and payments in over 1,500 global entities, for a diverse range of multinational customers, including Visa, Expedia, GSK, and Airbnb. With more than 800 staff across 11 global offices, we value our employees and strive to create a great workplace where everyone is valued, heard, inspired, and encouraged to bring their authentic selves to work.

We're committed to providing an excellent candidate and employee experience through fulfilling projects, empowerment to make a difference, and an environment that inspires innovation. The benefits of working at CloudPay include a competitive compensation package, flexible remote working, career development opportunities, access to wellness resources, and a vibrant global culture.

We are seeking Solutions Architect to own the overall engineering roadmap for a key project at CloudPay. This person will work closely with the product owners and engineers to continue the delivery of a solution based on Node and React.
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Daily Duties and Main Responsibilities will include:

• Understand, document, and maintain a working knowledge of the CloudPay platform and satellite systems. Be aware of their general terms of operation, capabilities and how they are deployed
• Meet with Business Teams, Product Owners and Business Analysts to understand their requirements for CloudPay Platform/modules
• Devise solutions by extending existing module capabilities, or, create new capabilities
• Drafting database table changes/designs
• Specification of API calls
• Ensuring designs are secure, can scale to meet expected load, have performance reporting capabilities, and have well defined responsibilities
• Working in collaboration with Product Owners, Business Analysts and Technical Architects (as required) create and refine user stories to allow designs to be implemented
• Working with senior members of the Engineering and Product Teams, devise long term platform strategy and evolution

Attributes and Experience Required:

• Will have worked on enterprise scale systems (i.e. large multi service systems or where individual systems have been integrated to achieve a business outcome or process)
• Background in software engineering, ideally Node and React. Java also useful
• Appreciation of IDM, Logging and Database and user interface technologies.
• Familiar with Native Cloud Technologies and Cloud Platforms, ideally AWS
• Will have worked with key business stakeholders, business analysts, technical architects and senior engineers to design systems. A key element in this role is being able to interpret user requirements and turn these into systems that code/test can implement. Support documentation, diagrams and high-level user stories are essential outputs.
• Familiar with software engineering and architectural design patterns

Work Authourisation:

• Based in United Kingdom (required)
• We are unable to provide sponsorship

Package and Benefits:

• Competitive annual salary
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Earned Wage Access (via CloudPay Now app)
• Flexible remote working
• Birthday leave
• Flexible pension contribution
• Life assurance x4
• Private medical insurance
• Personal and professional development opportunities
• Friendly working environment