Your role

What you'll be doing

What We Need

Corpay is currently looking to hire a Chief Architect on a permanent basis within our International Vehicle Payments line of business, this position is located in our London office. In this role, you will perform an architecture leadership role for the Vehicle payments and Consumer divisions. You will lead the design of the future IT ecosystem and assist in building a multiyear roadmap for transforming the enterprise. In addition, you will collaborate with other architects and tech teams to promote standards, ensure best practices, extract reusable assets and assist with problem solving. You will report into our CIO and regularly collaborate with other IT teams in the business.

How We Work

As a Chief Architect, you will be expected to work in an office environment. Corpay will set you up for success by providing:

• Assigned workspace in the London office
• Company-issued equipment
• Formal, hands-on training

Role Responsibilities

The responsibilities of the role will include:

• Supporting business partners to build service and tool portfolios to drive business growth.
• Collaborating with business and technology teams to define future states, roadmaps, and create platform architecture that enables business and technology vision and goals.
• Creating the technical strategy and IT reference architectures to guide the successful design, implementation and operations of IT solutions.
• Developing and drive adoption of technology standards and architecture patterns across the organization.
• Identifying important potential technologies and approaches to address current and future technology needs, evaluating their applicability and fit, as well as leading the definition of standards and best-practice for their use.
• Defining and managing the architecture and technology governance processes for the businesses. Coach and mentor members of the IT teams to provide technical oversight.
• Aligning solutions with Corpay supported technologies.
• Building effective relationships with business and key technical resources to influence technology solutions.
• Providing technical evaluation of proposed project ideas, software changes and future product releases.
• Understanding and help address risk, privacy, cybersecurity and legal constraints on data.
• Participating in technical due diligence and decisions for future M&A activities.

Qualifications & Skills

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Significant experience in architecture roles for mid-sized to large enterprises.
• Considerable enterprise architecture experience.
• Have a systematic, disciplined, and analytical approach to problem solving with demonstrable verbal and written communications skills.
• Ability to create detailed documents and present to steering committee or key stakeholders.
• Demonstrable examples of leading software design and architecture.
• Deep knowledge of platform architecture concepts, best practices, objectives, and processes.
• Experience with Agile software development preferably with an onshore-offshore model.
• Collaborative working style with the ability to build relationships across multiple functions and geographies.
• Experience with cloud architectures. AWS experience a plus.
• Proven technical leadership experience in delivery of IT projects.
• Experience with architecting systems in a regulatory, corporate reporting or similar environment. PCI DSS and financial services a plus.

Benefits & Perks

• 4 X Life insurance
• Pension scheme - 5% employer contribution
• Private Healthcare
• 25 days Holiday (plus Holiday Buy/Sell)
• Access to LinkedIn learning
• Career Progression

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

Corpay is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Corpay provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, gender (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, language, ancestry, genetic information, veteran and/or military status or any other group status protected by federal or local law. If you require reasonable accommodation for the application and/or interview process, please notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.

For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity and pay transparency, please click the following links: EEOC and Pay Transparency.

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About Corpay

Corpay is a global technology organisation that is leading the future of commercial payments with a culture of innovation that drives us to constantly create new and better ways to pay. Our specialized payment solutions help businesses control, simplify, and secure payment for fuel, general payables, toll and lodging expenses. Millions of people in over 80 countries around the world use our solutions for their payments.

All offers of employment made by Corpay (and its subsidiary companies) are subject to the successful completion of satisfactory pre-employment vetting by an independent supplier (Experian). This is in accordance with Corpay's Resourcing Policy and include employment referencing, identity, adverse financial, criminal and sanctions list checks. We do this to meet our legal and regulatory requirements.

Corpay is dedicated to encouraging a supportive and inclusive culture among our employees. It is within our best interest to promote diversity and eliminate discrimination in the workplace. We seek to ensure that all employees and job applicants are given equal opportunities.

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