Key skills
MicroservicesSQLPostmanSwaggerOpenAPIRESTfulInsomniaGitSource ControlJiraConfluenceAgileScrumWireframingPrototypingCommunicationSales
About this role
Role Overview
- Engage with prospective clients to understand high-level business and technical needs, translating them into conceptual solution designs.
- Produce pre-sales collateral including solution outlines, API capability summaries, diagrams, and technical responses for RFPs/RFIs.
- Participate in discovery workshops and client meetings to shape proposals, validate feasibility, and recommend architecture patterns.
- Capture and curate business requirements and system documentation in JIRA/Confluence, including user stories, API design and API enhancements.
- Work with internal stakeholders to estimate delivery timelines, identify risks, and define integration approaches for proposed solutions.
- Assist in constructing proof-of-concepts, prototypes, or sandbox demonstrations for client evaluation.
- Write estimate-able user stories for developers in JIRA, including clear and testable acceptance criteria.
- Design RESTful web APIs for new and existing products in an API-first context, aligned with technical architecture guidance.
- Collaborate with engineering teams and business stakeholders to: Design RESTful web APIs
- Design data models
- Design event-driven processes in distributed/microservices architectures
- Specify contracts for messaging and web services, primarily using JSON Schema and OpenAPI Specification (Swagger).
- Validate and verify APIs by creating requests and asserting responses in Postman.
- Document processes and data models using BPMN.
- Define acceptance test scenarios using DSLs such as Gherkin and generate test datasets.
- Support Delivery Managers, Product Owners, and QA teams during acceptance testing.
- Participate in agile ceremonies as an integrated member of the team.
- Support data engineers responsible for onboarding customers and data into the platform.
Requirements
- Strong background across any of the following: FinTech APIs, BaaS platforms, embedded finance, and Open Banking (consent models, data access, secure API design).
- Commercial experience as either a Solutions Architect or Technical Solutions Analyst across multiple customers/projects.
- Excellent business, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills; able to translate business needs for technical teams and simplify complex concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience supporting pre-sales cycles, including discovery, solution shaping, and responding to technical queries.
- Ability to develop clear and persuasive solution documentation, proposals, and customer presentations.
- Confident in leading technical discussions with prospective clients and representing solution capabilities.
- Understanding of commercial drivers, scoping principles, and delivery estimation practices.
- Strong understanding of REST and its application to web APIs; proficient with tools such as Postman and Insomnia.
- Knowledge of HTTP headers, authentication, authorisation, and response codes.
- Commitment to agile and lean development principles.
- Experience writing user stories for agile development teams.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and conflict-resolution skills.
- Experience documenting processes using BPMN, UML and good understanding of event-driven workflows.
- Comfortable working with source control tools (e.g., Git) to manage API specifications.
- Proficient at testing web APIs, including crafting authentication tokens and proficient in SQL.
- Highly valuable experience in one or more of the following: Familiarity with financial messaging standards (ISO 20022, OpenAPI specs, bank interfaces).
- Exposure to crypto/digital asset ecosystems, including wallets, custody, tokenisation, reconciliation, and relevant regulatory frameworks.
- Experience with regulated financial entities (Banking Licence / EMI), virtual IBAN structures, and fiat–crypto exchange workflows.
- Understanding of African and Middle Eastern currency markets, cross-border FX, and trading of major/exotic currency pairs.
- Awareness of regulatory environments across Africa and the Middle East.
- Competent in rapid prototyping, wireframing, and agile delivery (Scrum PO/SM experience preferred).
Tech Stack
- Microservices
- SQL
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package : including healthcare
- paid for gym membership
- pension scheme
- perkbox and more.