Role-Business Solutions Development-Card Acquiring Domain Type- 6 Months FTE Mode-5 Days from Office Location-Basildon, UK About the Role The Solution Lead owns and drives end to end solutions through working with key business clients and engineering groups to engineer end to end process and IT solutions. The Solution Lead works closely with business owners to gather customer requirements, translate them into clear compelling business cases and requirements documents, and then implement them to deliver solutions. Successful Solution Leads are detail oriented yet still able to see the big picture and work with the business to drive a strategy which optimizes the IT investment. The Solution Lead works closely with program management with regards to the development, test, and release support teams throughout the SDLC process. In addition, the Solution Lead will work with program management to help define operational processes, drive the launch, adoption, and training support program development and execution, and track customer feedback in order to build improvements into future solution requirements. Responsibilities Collaborating with business partners to find alternatives and solutions to business challenges. Seek out systems solutions either internal to client or external 3rd party solutions that can be leveraged to meet business requirements. Engage the business client early and effectively, building solid relationships and pushing IT value upstream as key business direction is being set. Identifying, understanding, negotiating, and documenting business requirements with various groups. Facilitation of the IT planning and estimating phase. Manage the delivery of business cases, scope and requirements documents, use case documentation, test plans, and rollout communications. Act as primary liaison with program and Business Solutions during the development lifecycle from needs analysis and bug tracking to UAT and rollout. Developing and managing direct relationships with key stakeholders and subject matter experts to ensure the business solutions are aligned with their goals and priorities and how process automation through IT solutions will help them reach their goals. Balance the customers' requirements with technical constraints (e.g., application size, network bandwidth, hardware/software/equipment selections) to ensure that the value of the project is realized. Clearly understand, articulate, and document existing as-is systems business architecture and define strategy for to-be architecture. Exercise independent judgment in developing methods, techniques, architectures, and standards for obtaining solutions. Ensures scalability and international capabilities of technology. Create and maintain a cohesive coordinated plan to deliver solutions that meet the stakeholders' priorities within budgetary and product requirements. Budget management: Define and gain agreement on a project budget; ensures project tracks to the budget. Provide in-depth business technical strategy for systems solutions, identify business gaps, and correlate to potential solutions. Drive the prioritization process by which decisions are made around the final project scope. Execute on project plans and assist others in executing on project plans across the various groups. Makes scope/schedule/resources including budget tradeoff decisions with little or no guidance. Ensure line of business priorities and IT capabilities, technology, and resources are aligned. Analyse and document requirements and use appropriate techniques to refine, decompose, review, and validate requirements. Ensure requirements are traceable, well communicated, and aligned to the overall business or solution vision. Demonstrate a sound understanding of how the overall business solution is positioned, deployed, and supported globally. Evangelizing business benefits to IT and influence project team priorities as well as to resolve user issues. Strong negotiation and consensus building skills when dealing with internal customers, stakeholders, and team members. Ability to understand current/changing business processes participation in defining application and platform functionality. Has built credible customer relationships both in immediate team and across multiple customer groups. Can identify business issues and develop risk mitigation strategies. Sound understanding of IT technology concepts. Must have a basic understanding of mainframe and off-host architectures, MS products, development tools, etc. This individual also needs to be a strong leader who can focus on the vision and strategies of the group while managing the tactical components of running the daily business. Balance daily support needs with long-term strategy and successfully combine vision and reality into effective plans. Skills Mandatory Skills : Card Acquiring Domain VDart: Digital Consulting & Staffing Solutions VDart is a leading digital consulting and staffing company founded in 2007 and headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. VDart is one of the top staffing companies in USA & also provides technology solutions, supporting businesses in their digital transformation journey. Digital consulting services, Digital consulting agency Core Services: Digital consulting and transformation solutions Comprehensive staffing services (contract, temporary, permanent placements) Talent management and workforce solutions Technology implementation services Key Industries: VDart primarily serves industries such as automotive and mobility, banking and finance, healthcare and life sciences, and energy and utilities. VDart - Products, Competitors, Financials, Employees, Headquarters Locations Notable Partnership: VDart Digital has been a consistently strong supplier for Toyota since 2017 Digital Transformation Consulting & Strategy Services | VDart Digital, demonstrating their capability in large-scale digital transformation projects. With over 17 years of experience, VDart combines staffing expertise with technology solutions to help organizations modernize their operations and build skilled workforce capabilities across multiple sectors.