Job Specifications
Role Overview:
We are seeking a senior Payment Solution Architect with deep experience in banking and payments to own architecture decisions for a suite of payment applications. The role focuses on defining end-to-end solution designs, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards, and guiding delivery teams to build scalable, secure, and high-performance payment systems.
Key Responsibilities:
Own and drive architecture design and decisions across multiple payment applications.
Define solution vision, system interactions, interfaces, and non-functional requirements.
Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, governance standards, and regulatory requirements.
Lead architecture trade-off decisions covering scalability, security, resilience, and availability.
Act as a trusted advisor to technology leadership, product owners, and delivery teams.
Drive adoption of architecture standards, patterns, and roadmaps.
Mentor junior architects and collaborate with global delivery teams.
Required Experience & Skills:
20+ years in IT with 10+ years in Solution Architecture.
5+ years in Banking / Financial Services, preferably Payments.
Strong expertise in microservices architecture, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), containers, Kafka, and distributed systems.
Proven experience designing high-throughput, low-latency applications.
Strong background in architecture governance, design reviews, and decision documentation.
Experience working across Agile and Waterfall delivery models.
About Us:
Ascendion is a global, leading provider of AI-first software engineering services, delivering transformative solutions across North America, APAC, and Europe. We are headquartered in New Jersey. We combine technology and talent to deliver tech debt relief, improve engineering productivity solutions, and accelerate time to value, driving our clients’ digital journeys with efficiency and velocity. Guided by our “Engineering to the power of AI” [EngineeringAI] methodology, we integrate AI into software engineering, enterprise operations, and talent orchestration, to address critical challenges of trust, speed, and capital. For more information, please go to www.ascendion.com.
About the Company
Ascendion is a leading provider of AI-first software engineering services. Our applied AI, software engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent transformation capabilities accelerate innovation for Global 2000 clients. Ascendion is headquartered in New Jersey. In addition to our remote/hybrid workforce, we have a presence in 12 countries and 40+ global offices across North America, Eurpoe, and APAC. We are committed to building technology powered by Generative AI with an inclusive workforce, service to our commun...
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