Associate Product Architect

Every day Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit debit prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies more than 1300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best‑in‑class payment technology and software solutions.

Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.

Global Payments Integrated helps businesses succeed by delivering secure and personalized payment solutions allowing developers of business management solutions to accept payments through their systems and add value to their software. While many processors offer payments tied to antiquated platforms designed to support stand‑alone systems the Global Payments Integrated platform provides custom scalable and fast payment solution integration accommodating the swiftly‑shifting ways consumers pay for goods and services.

With this visionary payment processing platform Global Payments Integrated helps business management software companies grow their business through our embedded commerce services bolster customer loyalty with unique payments solutions and improve profitability.

This position can either be office or remote based.

The Associate Product Architect is responsible for defining product requirements that address market opportunities and meet the demands of the Product Owners. The position involves close interaction with the Product Architects Product Owners Software Architects Engineering Teams and other key stakeholders to ensure Global Payments product development resources are delivering products at quality and velocity. A strong technical background is required together with a clear focus on business goals and product objectives.

This role plays a significant part in aligning the product vision and engineering efforts with the strategic direction of the company fostering awareness and appropriate application of this vision at all levels of the organization and ensuring successful rollout of products to the market.

You will be provided with support coaching and mentoring from Product Architects enabling yourself and the Team to grow in a collaborative environment.

• Understand the need for designing and delivering robust and scalable solutions
• Gather requirements and present them to Engineering in a clear unambiguous manner
• Prioritize and package requirements into executable projects based on various factors (product value time to market technical dependencies operational constraints regulatory compliance etc.)
• Assist in focusing Engineering efforts across the organization with a sound and pragmatic approach towards quality product releases at velocity
• Help with ensuring delivered work meets technical functional performance and business requirements
• Help maintain a status dashboard for all ongoing product work
• Engage with the Product Owner as part of launch planning and execution for releases
• Engage with Technical Ops and Engineering as part of release management
• Provide issue resolution and product solution engineering working along with Engineering teams and Software Architects
• Maintain up‑to‑date product documentation covering requirements features roadmap etc. and ensure Engineering documentation covering design implementation testing etc. are up‑to‑date
• Collaborate with Product Owners to ensure product offerings are highly competitive in the face of dynamic market trends and competitor organizations and their products
• Communicate strategies in terms that are meaningful to the engineering group

• BSc or MSc or equivalent in Computer Science or related field
• At least 4 years industry experience as a Software Engineer (can include placement year)
• Tolerant of high degrees of ambiguity and good at resolving uncertainty and setting direction. Willing to backtrack, seek multiple solutions and experiment to validate approaches
• Creative, investigative,…