Technical Architect with Payments experience

About the role

Technical Architect with Payments experience The 5 resources would be located in either Location: NJ and FL Technical Architect "As a Technical Architect for the Global Payments Strategy, you will work with other key team members of the Global Payments Strategy team to ensure the delivery of the payments strategic architecture from a global collection of existing platforms to a modern distributed cloud based system leveraging cutting edge technologies. * Support the definition and implementation of reference architectures * Capture business capabilities and transform them into services leveraged across the platform. * Designing infrastructures for critical applications and business processes in a cost effective manner * Influencing/Implementing corporate standards for application and infrastructure designs * Driving the infrastructure lifecycle including expansions, technology refresh and version upgrades.

In this role, you will be responsible to work with business and technical leaders to create Conceptual Architectures that align business needs with Target State Architecture. Create Target State Architectures that accommodate strategies across,Create reference implementations that realize the technical architecture.

Direct responsibilities include the design of complex, multi-platform payment subsystems including both real time and non-real time transactions. You will be accountable for the integration of business requirements, technology standards and system engineering to transform the payments platforms.

You will be responsible influencing the technical decisions across platforms and educating your partners in engineering, operations and the business.

You must be able to work directly beside application engineering helping to shape the code base of the platform through hands on work including code reviews, coding and mentoring. " "* 10+ years experience in highly available transaction processing systems, preferably based on distributed and Open Source platforms. * Broad knowledge of various technology architectures for example storage, networking, databases, Linux, zOS, Web Servers, Application Servers, load balancing, etc * Specific knowledge of Java, Multi-Threading, Parallel Computing and Asynchronous architectures. * Specific knowledge of distributed messaging systems such as AMQP, WebSphere MQ, Kafka and Qpid. * Exposure and understanding of application frameworks including Spring, Spring Boot, Akka, Storm, Micro-Services etc. * Exposure and understanding of cloud computing technology and providers including Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes, HAProxy, Nginx, AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. * Experience in financial analysis for technology * Demonstrated leadership ability * A demonstrated ability to influence resources across multiple geographies preferred * The ability to operate in a complex and challenging environment * Proven ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines * Strong oral and written communication skills and advanced presentation skills * Ability to multi-task, comprehend and be responsive to customer needs, work under tight deadlines, and work independently * Strong analytical skills * A demonstrated understanding of Retail, Mortgage or Credit Card banking preferred * Technical problem-solving skills * Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Business Administration; MBA or MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering preferred