Who we are
Founded in 2002, Zafin offers a SaaS product and pricing platform that simplifies core modernization for top banks worldwide. Our platform enables business users to work collaboratively to design and manage pricing, products, and packages, while technologists streamline core banking systems.
With Zafin, banks accelerate time to market for new products and offers while lowering the cost of change and achieving tangible business and risk outcomes. The Zafin platform increases business agility while enabling personalized pricing and dynamic responses to evolving customer and market needs.
Zafin is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with offices and customers around the globe including ING, CIBC, HSBC, Wells Fargo, PNC, and ANZ. Zafin is proud to be recognized as a top employer and certified Great Place to Work® in Canada, India and the UK.
What's the opportunity?
An employee playing this role is expected to
- Be a subject matter expert aware of the Bank’s needs and strategy, and Zafin’s product capabilities.
- Understand customer needs and strategy, in the context of enterprise banking technology, including core banking, product and pricing, channels and integration.
- Develop architecture for complex business and technical needs across multiple groups.
- Provide architectural blueprints to the development teams.
- Ensure that the architecture and design cater to the non-functional requirements specified.
- Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommend innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization.
- Lead and manage customer engagements from a technology and integration perspective.
- Be a part of a collaborative cross-functional squad delivering value to a customer.
- Be a subject matter expert aware of both the customer’s technology needs and our product capabilities.
- Be a coach and a guide consulting with the customer on the right way to implement solutions to address business problems.
- Own accountability of the value delivered to the customer.
- Lead and perform in a customer facing role
Mode of Work: Hybrid
What will you do?
- Research, select, prototype, implement, evaluate, approve progress of architecture/design solutions.
- Articulate technology solutions to address business problems.
- Architect, design and implement software and systems solutions.
- Define technology architecture within the context of the overall enterprise business framework.
- Develop technology architecture strategy based on situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations of clients.
- Define the data shared across the enterprise and the relationships between data in relation to their impact and use from a technology and strategic perspective.
- Support and align efforts to meet customer business needs as a part of software delivery
- Participate in requirements elicitation
- Conduct discovery and JAD sessions
- Create, review and present specification documents
- Conduct walkthroughs to clarify customer requirements
- Work with senior team members to present product capabilities to customers and partners
- Work with team members to determine system objectives, constraints and solve design problems
- Provide architectural blueprints to the development teams
- Ensure that the architecture and design caters to the non functional requirements specified
- Verify configurations as a part of acceptance before software delivery to customer
- Communicate proactively with customers and internal team members to deliver business value as a part of daily work management
- Identify new methodologies for making development more cost effective
- Assist team members in conducting regular design and code reviews and document software designs
- Train and guide junior members of the team to obtain necessary product and project knowledge
- Support team in developing product and customer knowledge base
- Support pre-sales efforts to acquire new customers and projects
What do you need to succeed?
Must haves:
- Degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent experience
- Domain knowledge of banking and financial institutions and/or large enterprise IT environment
Experience:
- 7+ years of technology design experience including systems, applications or architecture
- 7+ years of experience with cloud architecture, framework and design patterns
- 5+ years of experience in working with teams building microservices
- Knowledge and understanding in working with third party hosted solutions
Technical Skills:
- Core Java, Spring Boot
- Web Services : REST, SOAP
- Kafka,
- Design Patterns
- Familiarity using development tools : IDE, Unit testing tools, Build tools, Source control and code review tools
What’s in it for you
Joining our team means being part of a culture that values diversity, teamwork, and high-quality work. We offer competitive salaries, annual bonus potential, generous paid time off, paid volunteering days, wellness benefits, and robust opportunities for professional growth and career advancement. Want to learn more about what you can look forward to during your career with us? Visit our careers site and our openings: zafin.com/careers
Zafin welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Zafin is committed to protecting the privacy and security of the personal information collected from all applicants throughout the recruitment process. The methods by which Zafin contains uses, stores, handles, retains, or discloses applicant information can be accessed by reviewing Zafin’s privacy policy at https://zafin.com/privacy-notice/. By submitting a job application, you confirm that you agree to the processing of your personal data by Zafin described in the candidate privacy notice.
What We Do
Zafin, the global leader in SaaS cloud-native product and pricing solutions, is a trusted partner to the world’s most customer-centric financial institutions. Zafin’s product and pricing platform empowers banks of all sizes to center their customers, grow relationships and drive revenues.
The Zafin platform separates product and pricing from core processing to accelerate progressive modernization, enable digital transformation and deliver personalization at the relationship level.
A typical Zafin installation integrates easily with most back-end systems and customer-facing channels to increase product and pricing efficiency and agility, drive interest and non-interest income, and deliver a positive ROI—often in one year or less.
