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We’re looking for a Solution Architect to join our ever-evolving Payouts team and help shape the future of global commerce.\nWhat you’ll own\nYou will define target architectures, set engineering standards, and work closely with product, platform, and delivery teams to translate business goals into robust technical solutions. Ideal candidates combine strong systems thinking with hands-on knowledge of cloud-native patterns, eventing, APIs, and DevSecOps.\nKey Responsibilities\nArchitecture and DesignDefine target and transitional architectures for microservices-based systems, including domain boundaries, service contracts, and data ownership.\nCreate and maintain architecture artifacts: context diagrams, sequence diagrams, service interaction models, API specifications, and deployment topologies.\nSelect and standardize architectural patterns (e.g., event-driven architecture, choreography vs. orchestration, CQRS, saga patterns, API gateway/BFF).\nEnsure designs address non-functional requirements: scalability, reliability, performance, security, observability, and cost efficiency.\n\nTechnical LeadershipProvide hands-on guidance to engineering teams on service decomposition, API design, data modeling, and cloud-native implementation.\nEstablish and champion coding and design standards, reference implementations, and reusable templates.\nConduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, and design walkthroughs; manage technical risk and drive remediation plans.\n\nGovernance and QualityDefine guardrails for microservices (e.g., versioning, backward compatibility, resilience patterns, health checks, retries/circuit breakers, idempotency).\nPartner with platform/DevOps teams to ensure CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and runtime policies align with architectural standards.\nDrive observability-by-design: metrics, logs, traces, SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and incident postmortems.\n\nStakeholder CollaborationWork with product managers to align technical roadmaps with business outcomes and OKRs.\nCommunicate complex architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders; facilitate trade-off discussions.\nCollaborate with Security, Compliance, and Data teams to meet regulatory and data governance requirements.\n\nRoadmapping and InnovationEvaluate and recommend technologies, tools, and managed services; perform proofs of concept and ROI assessments.\nContribute to the evolution of domain-driven design across the organization; mentor engineers and junior architects.\n\nWhat you’ll bring\n8+ years in software engineering/architecture with 4+ years designing and delivering microservices at scale.\nStrong proficiency in:Domain-Driven Design (DDD), bounded contexts, and service granularity.\nAPI design (RESTful, gRPC) and event-driven patterns (Kafka, Pulsar, SNS/SQS, or similar).\nCloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and core services (e.g., ECS/EKS/AKS/GKE, API Gateway, Lambda/Functions, IAM).\nContainers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) and ingress.\nData architectures for microservices: polyglot persistence, transactional boundaries, eventual consistency, and streaming.\nReliability and scalability patterns: circuit breakers, bulkheads, timeouts, backoff/retry, rate limiting, caching.\nObservability tooling: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, Jaeger/Zipkin.\nCI/CD and DevSecOps: GitOps, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation), security scanning, secrets management.\n\nSolid experience with at least one modern language and framework (e.g., Java/Spring Boot, .NET, Node.js, Go, or Python/FastAPI).\nDemonstrated track record leading complex programs from architecture through production, including migration from monoliths to microservices.\nExcellent communication and stakeholder management skills.\nIt’s a bonus if you have\nExperience in regulated or high-availability domains (e.g., payments, fintech, healthcare, e-commerce).\nFamiliarity with zero-downtime deployments, blue/green and canary strategies, feature flags, and progressive delivery.\nKnowledge of API management platforms and developer portals.\nSecurity expertise: OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, secrets rotation, tokenization, and threat modeling.\nPerformance engineering: capacity planning, load testing, and cost optimization.\nEvent streaming design at scale: exactly-once semantics, schema evolution (e.g., Avro/Protobuf with schema registry).\nExperience with multi-region, active-active architectures and disaster recovery.\nAbout the team\nOur inclusive and global teams win together every day. We’re proud to have the best minds in the industry, who you can learn from as you grow your career. The people, the energy, the connections - it’s unmatched. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.\nWhat makes a Globalpayer?\nGlobalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative - always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.\nDoes this sound like you? Then you sound like a Globalpayer. 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