Business Development System Architect
Brightstar LotteryBrightstar is an innovative, forward-thinking global leader in lottery that builds on our renowned expertise in delivering secure technology and producing reliable, comprehensive solutions for our customers. As a premier pure play global lottery company, our best-in-class lottery operations, retail and digital solutions, and award-winning lottery games enable our customers to achieve their goals, fulfill player needs and distribute meaningful benefits to communities. Brightstar has a well-established local presence and is a trusted partner to governments and regulators around the world, creating value by adhering to the highest standards of service, integrity, and responsibility. Brightstar has approximately 6,000 employees. For more information, please visit www.brightstarlottery.com.
Overview
A System Architect offers comprehensive technology assistance throughout the entire lifecycle for the business and serves as the primary technical expert within teams.
The position serves as a pivotal link connecting various external and internal collaborators, establishing a direction for solutions and defining parameters for successful delivery.
This specific role involves assisting with our Business Development (BD) initiatives, requiring participation in various customer interaction channels and defining solutions. It is crucial to comprehend and communicate the needs and expectations of prospective clients in developing markets and to align them with our offerings.
The position also includes our typical requirements for supervising delivery and demonstrating leadership, as is customary for a System Architect who reports to our International Systems Architecture team.
What you will be doing
The Architect role has key tasks that they work towards:
- Product Architecture – when necessary, define or evolve a product architecture based on new requirements or overall system needs.
- Solution Architecture – when required by System Architecture, help define a particular decision or solution for a customer deployment to guide Brightstar development and customer technical leads.
- Architecture Strategy – help guide Brightstar engineering and product towards technologies and an architecture that meets business needs, being responsible for key development decisions when necessary.
What you bring
- Proficiency in Technology – Capability to comprehend and design architectures for client solutions collaborating with the product architecture team and other technical subject matter experts. Comprehensive knowledge of solution technologies including software, data, networks, operations, and cloud platforms. Having cloud experience is beneficial.
- Understands Business Needs in Challenging New Markets – Transforms uncertain requirements into technical specifications and solution development independently from customers. In new markets, clients may lack clarity on their needs, requiring structured thinking to align with our offerings.
- Innovation – Being receptive to exploring fresh approaches to address current and emerging challenges, while maintaining the capacity to establish a reliable and resilient system.
- Guide technology decisions on-site with leadership. Form skilled leadership teams for project implementation. Mentor team members and foster leadership development.
- Decision Making – Demonstrating the capability to serve as primary technology decision makers for projects and for significant decisions for a site (in services). Ability to collect the necessary information, contact relevant experts, and make sound tactical/strategic decisions on behalf of the customer solution.
- Strong communication skills – Capability to communicate effectively with collaborators both externally and internally in a concise and straightforward way. Skilled at connecting different teams crucial to project achievement.
- Accountable for solution quality in project delivery through leading technical team.
In addition, you bring
- Bachelor's degree in IT or equivalent work experience, with 5+ years in business systems analysis or as a product owner
- A solid grasp of product management and agile software development approaches, applied theories and tools in contemporary product development and product composition
- Ability to travel (up to 40% of time)
- Ability to work across multiple time zones if required
- Additional Languages from English are important. In preference order Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese.
Keys to Success
• Building collaborative relationships
• Decision making
• Drive results
• Foster innovation
• Personal energy
• Self-leadership
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Brightstar is committed to sustaining a workforce that reflects the diversity of the global customers and communities we serve, and to creating a fair and inclusive culture that enables all our employees to feel valued, respected and engaged. Brightstar is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, marital status, national origin, citizenship, covered veteran status, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, or any other legally protected status in accordance with applicable local, state, federal laws or other laws. We thank all applicants for applying; however, only those selected to interview will be contacted.
All Brightstar employees have a role in information security. Annual training will be assigned and required as appropriate.
For more information, please visit www.brightstarlottery.com.