Technology Architect

Founded over 16 years ago, with more recent investments from Accel-KKR, Entersekt is a leader in digital banking fraud prevention and payment security, including mobile authentication, mobile app security, and 3D Secure authentication for issuers, acquirers and payment networks. We offer highly scalable products with a track record of success across multiple continents.

Entersekt enables secure digital transactions for leading financial institutions globally. We exist to create a world where everyone can transact digitally without fear or compromise. Currently, we protect the digital transactions of over 210 million active users on our platform and hold 120 active patents that recognize innovation in digital security, payments, and user experience. Entersekt offers customers secure authentication and digital payments experiences that remove unnecessary friction. Entersekt has a diverse product portfolio and aggressive roadmap that positions the company well to sustain competitive advantage as it expands globally with emphasis on North America and European markets.

• Integrate knowledge of the overarching business strategy when exploring programs and projects within the CTO division.
• Advise on the technical direction and help drive initiatives within the CTO function that could stretch across multiple divisions.
• Where required, explore new concepts and techniques and execute on the research and development of initiatives within the CTO function.
• Design and define principles for our Product Architecture.
• Define technical specifications and algorithms where needed.
• Analyse industry trends and produce reports and recommendations.
• Monitor and assess current architectural adoption across the business and help define strategies to synthesize and integrate them.
• Provide technical leadership, make recommendations and collaborate with Product Development to ensure the technical architecture direction is well understood and can be executed on.
• Identify innovation opportunities by detecting inefficiencies or change drivers inside the financial services industry.
• Design the high-level structure of new technology solutions. This also includes identifying potential roadblocks.
• Solve unique and ambiguous problems with broad impact; typically oversee standards, controls and operating methods that have a strategic impact on the business.
• Provide and co-create innovation and exploration ideas; help manage and prioritize these; define approaches to validate/qualify these concepts.
• Engage with new third-party providers and partners to understand their offering; define potential combined use cases or opportunities to explore together.
• Anticipate emerging technology and architectural trends and regulatory/risk issues as a basis for recommending large-scale product, technical, functional or operational improvements.
• Keep up to date with industry standards, trends and analyst positioning.
• Participate in relevant industry forums and help move Entersekt’s position forward.
• Provide industry updates and interpretations to the rest of the organisation.
• Review industry material, distill key areas of exploration and craft a plan of action.

• 10+ years’ experience in a technology/software environment.
• Engineering, Computer Science, or relevant degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in defining, documenting and communicating architectural designs and principles for software products and solution proposals.
• Ability to build a ‘story’ to explain concepts and positions to various types of stakeholders including commercial, business and technical stakeholders.
• Experience with one or more of the following is preferred: financial services, mobile platforms, consumer-facing solutions and/or payment/EFT systems.
• Experience with cloud-native SaaS architectures, design, delivery, and operations (e.g. microservices, containers/Kubernetes, CI/CD, multi-tenant considerations), is preferred.
• Preferably a good working understanding of and practical experience with Amazon Web Services.
• Preferably experience in building scalable and data rich services on microservice architecture.
• Systems engineering and/or requirements elicitation exposure will be an advantage.