Job Description:

• We are seeking a Payment Solution Architect with deep experience in banking and payments to own architecture decisions for a suite of payment applications. The role focuses on defining end-to-end solution designs, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards, and guiding delivery teams to build scalable, secure, and high-performance payment systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and drive architecture design and decisions across multiple payment applications.
• Define solution vision, system interactions, interfaces, and non-functional requirements.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, governance standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead architecture trade-off decisions covering scalability, security, resilience, and availability.
• Act as a trusted advisor to technology leadership, product owners, and delivery teams.
• Drive adoption of architecture standards, patterns, and roadmaps.
• Mentor junior architects and collaborate with global delivery teams.

Required Experience & Skills:

• 20+ years in IT with 10+ years in Solution Architecture.
• 5+ years in Banking / Financial Services, preferably Payments.
• Strong expertise in microservices architecture, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), containers, Kafka, and distributed systems.
• Proven experience designing high-throughput, low-latency applications.
• Strong background in architecture governance, design reviews, and decision documentation.
• Experience working across Agile and Waterfall delivery models.