Solution Architect

About the role

Join a leading global payments company as a Solution Architect on the Payouts team. You will shape the future of global commerce by defining target architectures and translating business goals into robust technical solutions.

Key responsibilities

• Define target and transitional architectures for microservices, including domain boundaries, service contracts and data ownership.
• Create and maintain architecture artifacts such as context diagrams, sequence diagrams, API specifications and deployment topologies.
• Provide hands‑on guidance to engineering teams on service decomposition, API design, data modeling and cloud‑native implementation.
• Establish coding and design standards, conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling and manage technical risk.
• Partner with platform and DevOps teams to ensure CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration and runtime policies align with standards.

Required profile

• 8+ years of software engineering/architecture experience, with 4+ years designing and delivering microservices at scale.
• Strong proficiency in Domain‑Driven Design, API design (RESTful, gRPC) and event‑driven patterns (Kafka, Pulsar, SNS/SQS).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP) and core services such as ECS/EKS/AKS, API Gateway and serverless functions.
• Hands‑on knowledge of containers, Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) and observability tooling.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Required skills

• Domain‑Driven Design (DDD)
• API design (REST, gRPC)
• Event streaming (Kafka, Pulsar, SNS/SQS)
• Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP
• Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, Linkerd
• Observability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Jaeger, Zipkin
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation
• Programming languages/frameworks: Java/Spring Boot.NET, Node.js, Go, Python/FastAPI