Software Solutions Architect

• Demonstrated experience in providing customer-driven solutions, support, or service.
• Proven leadership experience with hands-on development expertise in Java and AWS (GCP or Azure).
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to understand and interpret complex software/systems.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey technical information effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.  
• Demonstrated experience in developing diverse solution-delivery and design approaches tailored to customer needs.
• Extensive experience in developing complex software/systems using one or more programming languages.
• Proven ability to analyze and estimate project scope and work efforts for software solutions.
• Experience providing technical guidance and leadership to less experienced team members.
• Extensive knowledge of software development and design standards, methodologies, and best practices.
• Comprehensive understanding of infrastructure technologies, operating systems, and the interconnectivity between infrastructure platforms and software tools.
• Extensive knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Solid understanding of application architecture and design alternatives.
• Solid knowledge of integration and migration strategies and technologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in crafting and developing scalable, high-performing, and fault-tolerant applications for large enterprises.
• 5+ years of experience within the Payments domain, with a strong understanding of payment processing, wallet management, and integration with third-party payment processors.
• Expertise in measuring, evaluating, and optimizing application performance.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and standard methodologies for the SDLC, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Experience in owning and operationalizing critical metrics for Payments, building industry-leading telemetry/logging to ensure application state and health.
• Proven ability to lead research and initiatives for cloud-native designs and implementation within public clouds, primarily AWS.
• Experience in building enterprise architecture and influencing coding standards (scalable, performant, readable, and tested code), and ensuring code reviews maintain high standards.
• Strong past experience with Java and the Spring Framework.
• Demonstrated experience with Git/GitLab for source code control, branching, bug tracking, and CI/CD pipe