Sentenial

The role involves: Resolving customer issues on a day to day basis in an efficient and timely manner. Being the primary customer contact in your region and the internal customer representative. Recording customer support information and issues in the appropriate systems and ensuring that records are maintained and are kept up to date. Providing daily and weekly reports on issues. Monitor and respond to feedback and product performance. Troubleshoot business process problems and escalate, including application incident reports and business process reports. Cooperate with development and product teams to resolve customer issues as needed. Feedback customer requirements to product owners and development teams. Reducing handling time, adding value to customer calls and working closely with your team and management to better the customer experience. Candidate Requirements: Candidates should have a 2.1 or higher in a Business or IT related discipline. Candidates must speak fluent Dutch and English. Candidates must have at least 3 years experience in a similar role, ideally in the financial services sector or payment processing area. Be customer orientated, enthusiastic, courteous, assertive and motivated to take charge of customer engagement, service provision and incident resolution. Have excellent communication skills-be it via telephone, email, chart or web interface CRM experience such as Salesforce.com, or equivalent is helpful. An ability to prioritise own workload, work to strict deadlines and effectively manage time. A professional manner with excellent interpersonal skills. A demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively within a dynamic environment. Desirable: Payments and SEPA knowledge and experience.

Sentenial is offering you an opportunity to hold a significant role in a highly successful software business success story. Established in 2004, Sentenial is the leading provider of Direct Debit processing services and solutions for numerous national Direct Debit schemes, and is a forerunner for SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area). With clients ranging from SMEs to large global banks using our Direct Debit facilities, we've built a reputation for best in class products, accurate and efficient delivery, and excellent customer service. Sentenial is an ambitious, dynamic and fast-growing company and are currently seeking to recruit a hard working, driven, and self motivated Technical Pre-Sales Consultant who is keen for an opportunity to make a difference. In turn Sentenial offers candidates the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment and to be part of a cutting edge team with world class customers. The role is to provide Pre-Sales Technical Consulting on Sentenial's Origix product range of SEPA Payment Solutions. The role involves representing and presenting on behalf of the company on customer sites, at various events and at conferences. The primary goal will be to work with the Sales Team to ensure that revenue targets are achieved by providing vital pre sales consultancy and technical assistance during the sales cycle. The role requires regular travel to customer sites within Europe. This role involves: Solution design and packaging of proposals Work as part of virtual teams comprising of Sales, Implementation, Support and Product Management to help move customers and partners through the sales cycle to close Pre-Sales Technical Account management / development Manage the proposal/RFI/RFP and technical bidding process Partner training and support on Sentenial product range Conduct product demonstrations, webinars & POC's. Essential Requirements: Fluency in English, Dutch & German is essential Candidates should have a 2.1 or higher in a Business or IT related discipline or relevant experience 3 to 5 years experience in a Pre-Sales/Sales Operations role supporting SaaS and/or Payments product sets Candidate must be sales-oriented, proactive, confident, be credible, with outstanding verbal and written communication and customer facing skills and keen to learn with a strong new business development attitude and good commercial awareness Experience of working with a solutions based methodology/approach A demonstrated ability to articulate the technical features, competitive advantages and business benefits of a product Experience in CRM Systems.Experience with complex RFI/RFP tendering processes Experience of working with system integrators Experience in supporting sale to Financial Institutions and Large Enterprise Customers Experience in selling via Partners and Resellers. Desirable: Familiarity with SEPA / Payments solutions.

Requirements: Minimum of seven years industry experience using Java and related technologies. Enjoying building elegant and maintainable systems with minimal complexity. Has excellent interpersonal skills, excellent verbal communication skills, excellent written communication skills and enjoys working in a highly iterative, agile and open team environment. Previous experience of bringing new ideas to the table from a process management and technical point of view. Extensive experience with Spring, EJB or other application frameworks. Very Strong prototyping ability. Experience with the following technologies: Spring Batch/Integration Hibernate or other ORM frameworks WebServices (SOAP / REST) Struts / MVC XML Processing (JAXB / XPath / XSLT) JPA JMS JNDI Qualifications: BS in Computer Science or relates field. 5-7 years industry experience; developed outstanding Java skills and web development expertise. Desirable Requirements: Experience/ knowledge of Financial / Payment Applications are an advantage.

The role involves Analyzing existing business processes, business systems and recommending refinement projects. Facilitating the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables. Defining project tasks and resource requirements. Developing full scale project plans, planning and scheduling project timelines. Tracking project deliverables using appropriate tools. Providing direction, support and regular progress reports to project teams and stakeholders. Working as part of the Development teams to analyze and design functional enhancements. Responding to support and development queries in the role product expert. Working with the development teams in communicating the business specification. Identify Functional and Non-Functional Requirements. Capture a Common Vocabulary. Create Customer (Integration) Functional Design. Sign-off Requirements, Solution Description and Functional Design with Customers. Handover, discuss and agree upon Requirements and Customer (Integration) Functional Design to/with core-BA and Product Owners. Monitor evolution and changes on both Customer and Design Team side. Coordinate with the Technical Lead/ Software Architect on Functional Design decisions. Monitor evolution and changes on both Customer and Design/Development Team sides. Act as a business owner to the project team responding to business questions from Technical lead. Involvement in the QA process. Communicate changes in requirements or scope to the Project Manager. Candidate Requirements Candidates should have a 2.1 or higher in a business or IT related degree. A minimum of 4 years experience in a business analyst/ project management role. Experience with formalized UML design and interactive development. Experience of analyzing and evaluating business processes for improvement. Knowledge of User Stories. Excellent verbal and written communication skills at all levels on business subjects. Self-reliant with the ability to innovate and introduce appropriate change showing sound judgment and pragmatism. Strong research, problem solving skills and facilitation skills. Experience/ knowledge of Financial / Payment Applications is an advantage, as is knowledge of the financial services industry. Desirable SEPA knowledge and experience. Experience of working with SCRUM methodology. A working knowledge of the following would be a distinct advantage: Java/J2EE, Hibernate, Spring, SQL, JMS, Maven, WebServices and WebSphere.

The role involves: Responsibility for guiding new and existing customers through the on boarding process for the Sentenial software solution. Resolving customer issues on a day to day basis in an efficient and timely manner. Being the primary customer contact in your region and the internal customer representative. Recording customer support information and issues in the appropriate systems and ensuring that records are maintained and are kept up to date. Providing daily and weekly reports on issues. Monitoring, responding and reporting on customer feedback and product performance. Troubleshoot business process problems and escalate, including application incident reports and business process reports. Cooperate with development and product teams to resolve customer issues as needed. Feedback customer requirements to product owners and development teams. Reducing handling time, adding value to customer calls and working closely with your team and management to better the customer experience. Visiting European customer sites on a regular basis. Candidate Requirements Candidates should have a 2.1 or higher in a Business or IT related discipline. Candidates must have at least 3 years experience in a similar role, ideally in the financial services sector or payment processing area. Be customer orientated, enthusiastic, courteous, assertive and motivated to take charge of customer engagement, service provision and incident resolution. Have excellent communication skills-be it via telephone, email, chart or web interface Be fluent in Dutch, French and English, both written and spoken. CRM experience such as Salesforce.com, or equivalent is helpful. An ability to prioritise own workload, work to strict deadlines and effectively manage time. A professional manner with excellent interpersonal skills. A demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively within a dynamic environment. Desirable Payments and SEPA knowledge and experience.

We are looking for talented Business Analysts to help us enhance our SaaS solutions and increase our market leading position. The role involves: Analyzing existing business processes, business systems and recommending refinements. Liaising with Product owners to refine requirements and ensure software deliveries meet customer expectations. Liaise with Engineers and QAs within Sprint teams to ensure the teams understanding of the deliverable is complete and comprehensive. Responding to support and development queries in the role of product expert. Ensure that documentation is comprehensive and maintained as functionality is updated. Monitor payment legislation changes and ensure any impact on products is reflected in the backlog. Provide support in Pre-Sales and procurement process as required. Provide support for Production related issues. Communicate changes in requirements to the relevant parties. Candidate Requirements: Candidates should have a 2.1 or higher in a business or IT related degree. A minimum of 3 years experience in a BA role. Excellent analytical and creative problem solving skills.Excellent verbal communication, written communication, interpersonal and presentation skills. Experience of Data and process modeling. Ability to define and communicate requirements in a way that is relevant to people at all levels of the organization. Ability to work under own initiative actively driving deliverables to a conclusion. Ability to also work well within a team. Preferred Requirements: Experience of working with SCRUM, Kanban and other Agile methodologies Understanding and interpretation of EU Regulation and legislative developments under PSD, SEPA Schemes etc with an ability to identify and implement solutions to meet emerging regulatory and legislative requirements Highly articulate, strong consulting and negotiation skills and the ability to challenge and deliver compelling, well structured arguments. SEPA knowledge and experience is an advantage Experience/ knowledge of Financial / Payment Applications is an advantage Excellent facilitation, communication and presentation skills User Guide and Technical writing experience an advantage

Description We are looking for talented professionals who share our passion for technology, innovation and excellence to help us enhance our cloud solutions and increase our market-leading position. This role requires the flexibility and aptitude to zoom into fine-grained detail, and the agility to zoom right back out and understand the overall architecture and software stack. Our candidates must be passionate about defining clean and well designed interfaces, with an ability to implement the underlying services with quality and performance in mind. The successful candidates will be an integral part of the organization responsible for driving both functional and non function requirements with particular attention to performance and scalability. Basic Requirements: BS in Computer Science or an IT related discipline. Minimum of three years industry experience using Java and related technologies. Fluency with Java and good understanding of OO principals and design patterns. Experience with Spring, EJB or other application frameworks. Experience with at least three of the following technologies: Spring Batch/Integration Hibernate or other ORM frameworks WebServices (SOAP / REST) Struts / MVC XML Processing (JAXB / XPath / XSLT) JPA JMS JNDI Experience with deployment on a J2EE compliant application server, preferably JBoss. Excellent analytical and creative problem solving skills. Understands and can demonstrate the importance of unit and integration testing. Strong prototyping ability. Excellent verbal communication, written communication, interpersonal and presentation skills. Experience with automated build utilities and continuous integration tools. Preferred Requirements: Experience in development of systems using automation. Experience with building highly-available and scalable systems. Experience of working with SCRUM, Kanban and other Agile methodologies. Exposure to build tools like maven, ant. SEPA knowledge and experience is an advantage. Experience/ knowledge of Financial / Payment Applications is an advantage.

Description We are looking for talented professionals who share our passion for technology, innovation and excellence to help us enhance our cloud solutions and increase our market-leading position. Our candidates must be passionate about defining clean and well designed interfaces, with an ability to implement the underlying services with quality and performance in mind. The successful candidates will be an integral part of the organization responsible for driving the heart of automation framework and performance integration looking towards both functional and non function requirements. Requirements Proficient in Java and OO principals. Strong debugging and performance analysis. Passion for Linux and open-source software. Experience using Selenium highly desirable. Knowledge of source control concepts highly desirable. Experience in development of systems using automation highly desirable. Knowledge of continuous integration tools desirable. Ability to organize and work on several tasks at once. Good verbal communication, written communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.

An immediate need exists for a Senior Performance Engineer who will be responsible for analysing and optimising the performance and scalability for Sentenial's SaaS payment solutions. This will involve identifying the root cause of performance bottlenecks and working with the developers in prototyping performance improvements. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to Analyze workload performance and scalability across a variety of hardware and software configurations. Defining & building performance architectures. Profiling the application Analysing AWR Reports, reviewing query plans, reviewing SQL queries and PL/SQL Working closely with the Engineering team to resolve any performance problems and implement the solutions and optimizations. Keeping up to date with performance tools, best practice and providing direction to the engineering team. Creating a balanced suite of performance workloads based on the day-in-the-life production environment. Document performance studies, sizing guidelines and best practices for our organization. Candidate Requirements BS in Computer Science, Engineering or Maths (M.S. or Ph.D. preferred). Experience in optimization, scalability and performance analysis 4+ years experience in performance engineering. Strong experience in performance analysis, tuning and optimization of server class workloads. Systems programming skills with knowledge of Linux/UNIX. Detail oriented with good organizational skills. Excellent analytical, debugging and troubleshooting skills. Excellent verbal communication, written communication, interpersonal and presentation skills. Someone who is highly interested in Performance improvement. Desirable Requirements Experience/ knowledge of Financial / Payment Applications are an advantage.

Established in 2004, Sentenial are the leading provider of SEPA (Single European Payments Area) payment services and solutions for both banks and corporate entities who are processing payments within the euro zone. Sentenial solutions assist companies in migrating to SEPA, insulate from future SEPA system changes and enable organisations to reap the many benefits of SEPA. With clients ranging from SMEs to large global banks, Sentenial have built a reputation for best in class solutions, accurate and efficient delivery, and excellent customer service. The role involves: Reporting into the Corporate Sales Manager Ireland, the Sales Executive will be responsible for the development and management of a Sales target pipeline from generating and prioritizing leads to effective closing. Managing some existing customer relationships. Delivering an effective Sales proposal and/or presentation at on-site customer meetings. Working and interacting with senior management in corporate entities. Taking responsibility for all stages of the Sentenial sales cycle including but not limited to the following; developing a sales pipeline, sales meetings with the customers, understanding customer requirements and issues, preparing solution proposals, communicating effectively to demonstrate a technical and organisational ability to deliver, effective follow up, negotiating terms and closing business. Being responsible for meeting and maximizing individual annual sales and revenue growth target. Developing new business opportunities and maximizing penetration from existing customer accounts. Identifying and driving continuous business improvements within the sales processes and products. Delivering presentations and product demonstrations. Responding to RFIs and RFPs. Regular travel to customer sites will be required. Candidate Requirements: An ambitious highly motivated, dynamic, adaptive self starter with high energy and motivation who is looking for the opportunity to grow a business. Demonstrate a good pleasant manner. Strong influencing skills and communication skills (written, verbal, presentation). Ability to effectively operate with high energy and flexibility in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment. Exceptional written, verbal communication and presentation skills. Results focused with a measured approach. Capable of listening, analysing and understanding customer requirements. A demonstrated ability to articulate the technical features, competitive advantages and business benefits of a product. Candidates will have sales experience and the ability to develop effective client relationships. Need to be able to demonstrate a target driven approach coupled with the ability to deliver. Desirable: Previous experience in the payments industry would be beneficial. Previous payments experience in a banking environment would be beneficial. Demonstrate an understanding of SEPA. Ability to develop good relations with customers. Sales track record.

The role involves Interacting with the Business Analysis team to analyse and review requirements, use cases and Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) diagrams. Attend Scrum Estimation meetings and represent QA team in relation to QA Testing Tasks. Define, Develop and Conduct appropriate test cases that will verify all aspects of requirement details. Interacting with the Development team to enable bugs to be reported, reproduced and rectified. Works closely with the Support and Production Services teams as required to ensure the smooth transition of the configuration item from testing to UAT and on to the Production environment Experience working an Agile development team and a has a good understanding of Scrum Processes. Contribute to continuous improvement in testing standards and procedures. Other activities as required. Candidate Requirements Candidates should have degree or higher in a Computer Science or an IT related discipline. 3+ years experience in Quality Assurance or other relevant role. Extensive experience in writing Test Documentation based upon a set of requirements, use cases and BPMN diagrams. A very good understanding of requirements management and traceability. Working knowledge of SQL and the ability to use SQL to verify report results with the Relational database. The candidate must have strong technical skills. Quick learner with the ability to become effective in a short time frame. Ability to integrate into a team quickly. Excellent communicator. Self-reliant with the ability to innovate, showing sound judgment and pragmatism. Strong research and problem solving skills. Experience of some or all of the following technologies: Java 1.5, XML, EJB, JIRA, SOAP, Web Services, UML, JUnit, Eclipse IDE, JBoss, Websphere, UNIX / LINUX , Oracle, Pl/SQL. Desirable Experience/ knowledge of Financial / Payment Applications is an advantage, as is knowledge of the financial services industry. SEPA knowledge and experience.

Description: We are looking for a talented and experienced Senior Software Architect who shares our passion for technology, innovation and excellence to help us enhance our cloud solutions and increase our marketleading position. This role requires the flexibility and aptitude to zoom into fine-grained detail, and the agility to zoom right back out and understand the overall architecture and software stack. The successful candidates will be an integral part of the organization responsible for driving both functional and non function requirements. You will be driving performance and scalability from software and infrastructure on a large scale dealing with processing high volume payment files in short windows of time. You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and will be an integral member of the engineering team. The role involves: Responsibility for the research, design, and development of the architecture in accordance with specified business and architectural requirements. Development of highly secure, robust and scalable software. Produce architecture design documentation based on the system requirements. Investigation of new technologies/concepts and delivery of proof of concepts. Liaising with other areas of the organization to provide technical expertise and guidance. Driving the Product backlog direction from a non functional requirements perspective Responsibility for leading and mentoring developers in delivering the above architecture and subsequent product components that will reside within the architecture. Basic Requirements: Minimum of ten years industry experience, with recent experience in a Senior Architecture role. Experience in Financial Services Industry, particularly with payment / batch applications BS or higher in Computer Science or an IT related discipline. Experience of working on a variety of projects with responsibility for bringing a high level specification through all stages of development and to deliver a quality system. Fluency with Java and related technologies, demonstrating a strong understanding of OO principals, enterprise architecture and design patterns. Experience with Spring and other Open Source application frameworks Experience with deployment and configuration of a J2EE application server, preferably JBoss. Excellent analytical and creative problem solving skills.Strong understanding of best practices in application architecture including security,performance and scalability. Strong focus on quality and testing (Unit and Integration testing) Strong prototyping ability. Ability to coach, mentor and lead at a technical level, adapting an approachable helpful, non judgmental style in leading the development teams. Excellent verbal communication, written communication, interpersonal and presentation skills. Experience in developing secure web applications with attention to authentication, authorization, SSO, PKI, encryption. Preferred Requirements: Experience with the following technologies: Spring: Core, Security, AOP, WS Spring Batch/Integration or other Batch processing frameworks JPA, Hibernate Web Services: SOAP, REST Struts MVC, Spring MVC, AJAX, JQuery, JSP XML Processing: SAX, StAX, JAXB, XPath, XSLT JMS, JNDI JBOSS AS, Oracle Experience in development of automated systems Experience of working with SCRUM, Kanban and other Agile methodologies. Exposure to build tools like maven, ant, continuous integration. Ability to develop and promote continuous improvement in software development practices, in a flexible, innovative and communicative manner. SEPA knowledge and experience is an advantage.

We are looking for talented BAs to help us enhance our SaaS solutions and increase our market-leading position. The role involves: Analyzing existing business processes, business systems and recommending refinements. Working with the support, QA and product teams to analyze, recommend and to provide input to the design of functional enhancements. Responding to support queries in the role product expert. Troubleshooting support issues as they arise and recommend solutions. Working with the development, support and development teams in communicating the business specification. Identifying Functional and Non-Functional Requirements. Providing 2nd level support to customers. Handover, discuss and agree upon Requirements and Customer (Integration) Functional Design to/with core-BA and Product Owners. Monitor evolution and changes on both Customer and DesignTeam side. Coordinate with the Technical Lead/ Software Architect on Functional Design decisions. Monitor evolution and changes on both Customer and Design/Development Team sides. Act as a business owner to the project team responding to business questions from Technical lead. Involvement in the QA process. Communicate changes in requirements or scope to the Project Manager. Candidate Requirements: Candidates should be Fluent in English and at least one of the following languages: French, German or Dutch Candidates should have a business or IT related degree. A minimum of 2 years experience in a Business / Systems Analyst role. Excellent analytical and creative problem solving skills. Excellent verbal communication, written communication, interpersonal and presentation skills. Experience of Data and process modeling. Ability to define and communicate requirements in a way that is relevant to people at all levels of the organization. Ability to work under own initiative actively driving deliverables to a conclusion. Ability to also work well within a team. Preferred Requirements: Experience of working with SCRUM, Kanban and other agile methodologies. Understanding and interpretation of EU Regulation and legislative developments under PSD, SEPA Schemes etc with an ability to identify and implement solutions to meet emerging regulatory and legislative requirements. SEPA knowledge and experience is an advantage. Experience/ knowledge of Financial / Payment Applications is an advantage. User Guide and Technical writing experience an advantage.

An immediate need exists for an Applications Support Engineer within Sentenials application support team. Using custom built technologies along with open-source tools, our applications support team keeps Sentenial's customer-facing products running, robust, and secure 24x7x365. Job Responsibilities: Providing as 2nd / 3rd level support to Java financial software in a SaaS environment. Including deployment and operations management. Ensuring daily application operations run successfully. Developing SQL queries, scripts, applications as needed. Documenting processes and procedures to an ISO standard. Providing technical expertise over a wide number of systems. Basic Requirements: BS in Computer Science or an IT related discipline. Two to three years industry experience in a similar role. Experience/knowledge of Apache/JBoss/Websphere etc. SQL knowledge (Oracle, MySQL) Linux Systems experience/knowledge Scripting Skills (Python, Bash) Experience with tools such as SQL Developer, Eclipse, Subversion, Jira. Preferred Requirements: Coding experience in Java Experience/ knowledge of Financial / Payment Applications is an advantage

The role involves: Being a specialist in specific payment processes between banks and companies in the Benelux; understanding the impact of SEPA and customer requirements on the customers business processes and turning these requirements into product opportunities and vision. Analyzing existing product features, business processes, business systems and recommending refinements. Contributing to the success of the Benelux team by actively supporting the sales team. Working with customers to analyse their challenges, problems and expectations and translating these into trends, product refinements and trends. Working with the development teams in communicating the business specification. Identifying Functional and Non-Functional Requirements. Capturing a Common Vocabulary. Creating (Integration) Functional Design. Sign-off Requirements, Solution Description and Functional Design with Customers. Handover, discuss and agree upon Requirements and Customer (Integration) Functional Design to/with core-BA and Product Owners. Monitor evolution and changes on both Customer and Design Team side. Coordinate with the Technical Lead/ Software Architect on Functional Design decisions. Monitor evolution and changes on both Customer and Design/Development Team sides. Act as a business owner to the project team responding to business questions from Technical lead. Involvement in the QA process. Communicate changes in requirements or scope to the Project Manager. Candidate Requirements: Candidate should be fluent in FR, NL and EN. Candidates should have a technical related degree. A minimum of 2 years experience in a business/ systems analyst role. Experience with formalized UML design and interactive development. Experience of analyzing and evaluating business processes for improvement. Knowledge of User Stories. Excellent verbal and written communication skills at all levels on business subjects. Self-reliant with the ability to innovate and introduce appropriate change showing sound judgment and pragmatism. Strong research, problem solving skills and facilitation skills. Experience/ knowledge of Financial / Payment Applications is an advantage, as is knowledge of the financial services industry. Desirable: SEPA knowledge and experience. Experience of working with SCRUM methodology. A good working knowledge of the following would be a distinct advantage: Java/J2EE, Hibernate, Spring, SQL, JMS, Maven, WebServices and WebSphere.

We are looking to hire a creative Architect who enjoys being challenged by the problems of scale and complexity, with a strong desire to make services better for users. Why Sentenial? Sentenial delivers award-winning cloud payment solutions which help reduce the complexity of payment management and offers an array of value added services in an agile service delivery. Our products help organizations of all sizes to lower costs and increase business agility by offering highly scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant payment systems for its customers. Sentenials product solutions strive to use cutting edge technologies. Members of the engineering team are encouraged to voice their creative ideas and watch them become initiatives and part of the product backlog. At Sentenial, our engineers continue to learn and grow by working with top professionals. We are looking for a talented and experienced Architect who shares our passion for technology, innovation and excellence to help us enhance our cloud solutions and increase our market-leading position. The successful candidates will be an integral part of the organization responsible for delivering both functional and non function requirements. You will be driving performance and scalability from software and infrastructure on a large scale dealing with processing high volumes of data in short windows of time. You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and will be an integral member of the engineering team. Sentenial is based in West Dublin/ Maynooth off the M4 motorway. It is highly accessible by car, commuter rail, bus and train. Approximately 25 minutes from Dublin City Centre and 10 minutes from Liffey Valley Shopping Centre. The role involves: Responsibility for research, design and development of the software architecture in accordance with specified business and architectural requirements. Development of highly secure, robust and scalable software. Production of architecture designs based on the emerging business requirements. Investigation of new technologies/concepts and delivery of proof of concepts. Providing technical expertise and guidance to other areas of the business. Driving the Product backlog direction from a non functional requirements perspective Basic Requirements: Minimum of 10 years industry experience, with recent experience in a Senior Architecture role. Experience in Financial Services Industry, particularly with payment / batch applications Fluency with Java, Spring Framework and other Open Source frameworks. A strong understanding of OO principals, enterprise architecture and design patterns. Excellent verbal communication, written communication, interpersonal and presentation skills. Strong understanding of best practices in application architecture including security, performance and scalability. Experience in developing secure web applications with attention to authentication, authorization, SSO, PKI, encryption. Strong focus on quality and testing (Unit and Integration testing) Ability to coach, mentor and lead at a technical level. Excellent analytical and creative problem solving skills. BS or higher in Computer Science or an IT related discipline. Preferred Requirements: Experience with deployment and configuration of a J2EE application server, preferably JBOSS. Experience with the following technologies: oSpring: Core, Security, AOP, WS oSpring Batch/Integration or other Batch processing frameworks oJPA, Hibernate oWeb Services: SOAP, REST oStruts MVC, Spring MVC, AJAX, JQuery, JSP oXML Processing: SAX, StAX, JAXB, XPath, XSLT oJMS, JNDI oOracle Experience in development of automated systems Experience of working with SCRUM, Kanban and other Agile methodologies. Experience with maven and good understanding of continuous integration practices. Ability to develop and promote continuous improvement in software development practices, in a flexible, innovative and communicative manner. SEPA knowledge and experience is an advantage.