Solutions Architect at Diebold Nixdorf Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia

Job Description:

Job Description

Expect more. Connect more. Be more at Diebold Nixdorf. Our teams automate, digitize, and transform the way more than 75 million people around the globe bank and shop in this hyper-connected, consumer-centric world. Join us in connecting people to commerce in this vital, rewarding role.

Position Overview

As the Solution Architect, you will define end to end solutions delivered through partnerships to deliver net new products from a technical perspective within the Software organization. You will be focused on architecting, designing and developing new software solutions for prospective customers, existing customers and key industry partners.

You will provide customer and market feedback by gathering and analyzing marketplace intelligence for new solutions and translating into potential technical solutions with business requirements. The primary focus is to work with clients, prospects and the internal team to analyze business needs and translate business requirements and programming specifications in a form that can easily be understood by all audiences.

You are responsible for

• Working closely with Business development in supporting incoming partnership inquiries and the technical needs associated with moving new concepts into Proof of Concept and Pilot testing, ensuring that POC solutions are architected to move into production quickly
• Staying on top of the latest techniques being used by our direct competitors, and identifying strategic opportunities for competitive advantages through benchmarking, consumer insight, market analysis, and other techniques
• Planning requirements gathering and design activities. Collaborating with product, project, and development managers to determine required resource needs, product backlog prioritization, champion delivery of feature sets via a design schedule, and working with all customer-facing team members to translate the technical solution into feature / benefit propositions for the marketplace
• Defining technical solutions to a business problem
• Gathering requirements and defining the business need and desired outcome that stakeholders are looking to achieve
• Capturing, classifying, and prioritizing business, functional, and non-functional requirements
• Analyzing and modeling requirements through the use of process flows, data flows, and use case diagrams
• Creating functional solution design and collaborating with SMEs and technical lead on identifying and designing the solution
• Promoting a culture where critique and feedback are central to the work we do, and ensuring teams have regular opportunities to critique and be critiqued
• Keeping co-workers grounded on the idea that our focus is on delivery rather than deliverables, and solutions rather than documents
• Working in a collaborative environment with people who have a variety of skills - like user experience design, research, and front/back-end development - that collectively contribute to the final solution
• Developing innovative technical solutions and setting product direction to address industry business problems.
• Directing and participating in research and prototype development to validate solutions and new technologies.
• Performing complex product design activities which may require extensive research and analysis.
• Reviewing and analyzing existing banking solutions and client requirements, and providing recommendations for extension and customization to team members and clients
• Participating in limited software development (coding) activities at times
• Developing and maintaining working relationships with other departments which are key to the success of the organization (e.g., Product Management, Business Development, Professional Services, Engineering, Sales, etc.)

Required Qualifications

• Industry experience in banking, payments, and fintech. Work experience in General Retail also a plus
• Software development & API development required
• Technical aptitude and ability to learn new technologies quickly
• Strong communication skills and experience working with multiple business partners to ensure best approach available
• Ability to build trust and relationships and influence partner decisions
• A track record of proven innovation and new software product management success
• A structured approach to decision-making and communication when communicating with C-suite executives to product managers and software engineers
• Strong problem solving skills
• Experience in conducting development activities using stringent source code control procedures
• Possess strong written and oral communication skills for producing software design specifications
• Experienced in developing and documenting use cases

• MBA preferred

Why should you join Diebold Nixdorf?

Brightest minds technology and innovation business transformation The people of Diebold Nixdorf are 23,000 teammates of diverse talents and expertise in more than 130 countries, harnessing future technologies to deliver personalized, secure consumer experiences that connect people to commerce. Our culture is fueled by our values of collaboration, decisiveness, urgency, willingness to change, and accountability.

Diebold Nixdorf is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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