Technical Architect

Position: Payments Technical Architect

We are looking for an experienced

Payments Technical Architect with 10+ yearsof hands-on experience inJava, Spring Boot, microservices, REST APIs, Kafka, cloud technologies, Kubernetes, Mule Soft,and MQ.The ideal candidate will have strong experience designing and implementing highly scalable, secure, and resilient enterprise applications,with a strong understanding of the payments domain.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and architectscalable, secure, andhigh-performance paymentapplicationsusing
  
  Java, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, RESTAPIs, and microservices.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the application development lifecycle,from architecture and design through implementation and production support.
• Develop and integrate distributed applications using
  
  Kafka, MQ, Mule Soft, and REST-based services.
• Design cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS/Azure/GCPor equivalent cloudtechnologiesand container platforms such as Kubernetes.
• Work closely with business, product, engineering, and architecture teamsto translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Design solutions usingappropriatearchitectural and design patterns to ensure scalability, maintainability, resiliency, and performance.
• Develop reusable Java components, frameworks,and libraries followingclean-codeand object-oriented programming principles.
• Apply Java concurrency, multithreading, and performance optimization techniques where required.
• Design applications integrating with relational and external/embedded databases.
• Participate in application performance analysis, troubleshooting, JVM tuning, and production issue resolution.
• Implement automated testing, unit testing, andqualityengineering practices.
• SupportCI/CD implementation and Dev Ops practices using toolssuch as Git, Maven, Gradle, and Jenkinsor equivalent platforms.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting solutions using
  
  Splunkand related observabilitytools.
• Collaborate with Agile teams and participate in sprint planning, design discussions, code reviews, and technical demonstrations.
• Mentor developers andprovidetechnical guidance on architecture, coding standards, design patterns, andbest practices.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies,including AI-assisted development tools suchas
  
  GitHub Copilot and Claude, where appropriate.

Payments Domain Experience

Experience working with financial services or payment-processing platforms and exposure to one or more of the following:

• Fed Wire
• CHIPS
• The Clearing House(TCH)
• SEPA
• ACH
• Real-Time Payments(RTP)
• SWIFT
• ISO 20022
• MT messaging
• Payment processing, settlement, clearing, and payment integration systems

Required Technical Skills

• 10+ years of experience in software development and technical architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience with
  
  Java/J2EEand object-oriented programming.
• Strong experience with Spring MVC and Spring Boot.
• Excellent knowledge ofREST APIs and microservices architecture.
• Hands-on experience with
  
  Kafka and MQ.
• Experience with
  
  MuleSoftor similar integration platforms.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud technologies.
• Strong knowledge ofSQL and database technologies.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Agile development methodologies
• Proficiency with Gitand source-code management.
• Experience with Maven, Gradle, orAnt.
• Experience with application monitoring and troubleshooting using
  
  Splunk.
• Strong understanding of automated testing andunit-testing practices.