Solution Architect

Andersen is hiring a Solution Architect in Kazakhstan for a project developing a secure, scalable payment platform and ensuring reliable integrations and high availability.

Our customer is a large international technology organization operating in the digital infrastructure domain. It develops and maintains high-load platforms that process and manage significant volumes of data across multiple regions. The engineering landscape includes distributed systems, cloud-based environments, system integrations, and advanced security practices, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and continuous platform evolution.

The project is focused on developing and integrating a modern payment platform to support secure and reliable payment processing and interaction with external systems. It includes scalable microservices, asynchronous transaction processing, payment status and error handling, with a strong emphasis on resilience, security, and high availability.

Responsibilities:

• Designing the target microservices architecture for banking and payment solutions.
• Defining service boundaries and areas of responsibility for individual components.
• Designing microservice communication using REST, gRPC, and Kafka.
• Developing integration architectures for internal and external banking systems.
• Designing synchronous and asynchronous interaction scenarios.
• Designing solutions with high availability, scalability, and high-load requirements in mind.
• Developing and maintaining architecture documentation using C4 and UML.
• Defining API contracts and integration interfaces.
• Defining approaches to API security and inter-service communication security.
• Designing the use of Docker and Kubernetes within the solution architecture.
• Defining strategies for error handling, retries, and failure recovery.
• Participating in the architectural analysis of existing banking systems and integrations.
• Making architectural decisions and documenting them in technical documentation.
• Advising development teams on the implementation of architectural solutions.
• Assessing technical risks and the impact of architectural changes on the existing system.

Must-haves:

• Hands-on experience in designing microservices architectures for 3+ years.
• Experience in designing distributed system architectures with a large number of interacting services.
• Experience in preparing architecture documentation, including C4 models, UML diagrams, sequence diagrams, component diagrams, and other types of architectural diagrams.
• Hands-on experience in designing REST and/or gRPC APIs.
• Experience in designing integration solutions between internal services and external systems.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka or other message brokers.
• Understanding of Event-Driven Architecture and asynchronous service communication.
• Experience in designing highly available and high-load systems.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes from an architectural perspective.
• Understanding of distributed systems security principles, including OAuth, TLS, authentication, authorization, and access control.
• Experience in designing solutions for banking, payment, or other systems with strict requirements for reliability and data consistency.
• Ability to analyze existing architectures, identify architectural constraints, and propose potential evolution paths.
• Ability to select technologies and architectural patterns based on business requirements and technical constraints.
• Experience collaborating with developers, business/system analysts, DevOps engineers, and other technical teams.
• Level of English - from Intermediate and above.

Reasons why this job would be interesting to you:

• Experience in teamwork with leaders in FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, and others. Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, BNP Paribas, Ryanair, Mercedes, TUI, Verivox, Allianz, T-Systems, etc..
• The opportunity to change the project and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain.
• Guarantee of professional, financial, and career growth! The company has introduced systems of mentoring and adaptation for each new employee.
• The opportunity to earn up to an additional 1,000 EUR per month, depending on the level of expertise, which will be included in the annual bonus, by participating in the company's activities.
• Access to the corporate training portal, where the entire knowledge base of the company is collected and which is constantly updated.
• Bright corporate life (parties / pizza days / PlayStation / fruits / coffee / snacks / movies).
• Certification compensation (AWS, PMP, etc).
• Referral program.
• Private health insurance and sports compensation, depending on the type of employment.

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