Payment Gateway Solution Architect

Job Description:

Acorre Energy is looking for a Payment Solutions Architect, who will help us create, expand and maintain a Payment Services Gateway. This position will be a key member of the Gateway Services team, and will share design, development, and support responsibilities within the team in the delivery of Gateway Services in a high-volume, transaction processing environment.

Responsibilities:

• Design and refactor the company’s Payment Services platform
• Contribute to overall architecture and design, working closely with the enterprise architect
• Hands on development, plus contributing to the overall software life cycle including participating in code reviews, setting coding standards and introducing new technologies to the team
• Work with Quality Assurance and developers to ensure software builds meet system, functional and performance requirements and adhere to corporate polices such as security and privacy
• Participate in the design and planning of enhancements to existing products and development of new products
• Strong work ethic and ability to work independently, as well as in an Agile development environment 
• Work within a SaaS environment
• Drive innovation within team and company
• Design and deploy overall solution architecture to meet current and future business and product requirements
• Create overall architecture blueprints and design patterns to guide development
• Conduct technical product evaluation and selection
• Align technical architecture and roadmap with product design
• Establish credible technical roadmap, documented architecture(s)
• Set technical standards and monitor compliance to same
• Evangelize standardization and architecture practices
• Conduct technical planning sessions to establish agreement on development approach
• Work with engineering teams to clarify and enforce rigorous adherence to architecture(s) and technical standards
• Support Compliance and Legal with enterprise standards, processes and policies
• Contribute to continuous improvement of product ownership and agile processes
• Motivate the team with clear, elevating goals

Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience developing web-based, n-tiered systems
• Extensive experience with C#; .NET; JAVA; Phyton; RDBMS e.t.c
• Strong skills and knowledge of relational database design and development
• Must have a solid background in Transaction Processing and/or Payment Systems, preferably within the Credit Card and ACH realms
• Must have a solid understanding of Services-Oriented Architecture and Distributed Architectures
• Experience designing and building multi-threaded and asynchronous processing systems
• Experience with PCI Compliance regulations preferred
• Understanding of the release management and software development lifecycles
• MS/BS in Computer Science or related field preferred, or sufficient comparable experience
• Previously held role of product or technical solution architect
• Payments domain knowledge including high transaction rate processing
• Expert knowledge in modern design patterns and blueprinting practices
• Expert knowledge of mobile app development practices
• Expert knowledge of API, mirco-services and event driven IT architectures
• Expert knowledge of data exploitation, Security and concepts
• Expert knowledge of cloud-based technology offerings as well as deployment architecture options
• Expert knowledge of full stack development and open source components
• Strong knowledge of security, controls, privacy and compliance in the Financial Services domain
• Strong knowledge of agile development experience
• Outstanding technical and non-technical communication and presentation skills
• Experience working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to both collect requirements and to communicate the architecture vision and status