Development Architect
Company: Global Payments Inc.
Location: Belfast
Posted: March 6th, 2026
What you’ll be doing: Technical Leadership
- Participating in the definition and validation of technical guidance. E.g. architecture principles, styles, policies, and standards
- Coaching and Mentoring engineering staff in the effective and pragmatic application of software design principles and coding best practices
- Producing and maintaining useful and fit for purpose documentation of work, and contributing regularly to the general Engineering body of knowledge
- Building a strategic network of partnerships and relationships with individuals inside and outside of the engineering organization
- Effectively collaborating with architects on cross-portfolio and enterprise-wide initiatives
Strategic & Enterprise
- Contributing to the definition of technical strategy and, formal architecture delivery roadmaps for your assigned portfolio area
- Making architectural decisions that impact on the entire distributed Payments platform
- Assisting in establishing technical direction with a sound and pragmatic approach
- Monitoring new technologies, applications of technology, and opportunities to leverage technology as a differentiator for your assigned portfolio area
- Pinpointing strengths and weaknesses in the Payments platform, and effectively advocate for appropriate solutions to weaknesses
- Communicating direction in terms that are meaningful to individuals and teams across the engineering group
- Contributing to build vs. buy decisions
Delivery
- Leading Architecture and Design activities throughout the delivery lifecycle
- Verifying code quality and implementation alignment with design decisions and platform guidance
- Creating architectural mechanisms and core components to address concerns that have platform-wide impact
- Contributing to the estimation and prioritization of work items
- Participating in coding activities that are in support of design outcomes - up to 50% of the time depending on the project
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Flexible, hybrid working from our new office in the heart of Belfast city centre
- 26 days leave (plus Bank holidays) increasing with length of service
- Vitality private medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Life insurance / income protection / critical illness
- Up to 5% matching pension contributions and Salary Sacrifice
- 26 weeks company paid maternity leave
- Cycle to work scheme
- Electric car scheme
- Stock purchase plan
- Twice annual worldwide community volunteering days
- Company social events
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