Senior App 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 1,300 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.

**Job Summary**

**Essential Duties**
- Assist in establishing technical direction across the organization, with a sound and pragmatic approach
- Deliver on the technical solution to meet the product vision
- Participate in the definition of architecture principles, styles, policies and standards
- Participate in coding activities e.g. Proof Of Concept, code reviews and demonstrators, debugging and issue analysis
- Communicate strategies, policies and practices in terms that are meaningful to the engineering group.
- Responsible for achieving planned business results by decisions and actions based on professional or technical expertise, business principles, and substantial practical experience
- Develops and manages relationships with external vendors and partners
- Develops and manages relationships with internal customers and providers; works to minimize and/or resolve conflicts
- Ensures quality by evaluating designs, test results, development quality standards and overall product deliverables to requirements
- Ensures quality and efficiency by routinely identifying and driving process improvements
- Attends status meetings to provide project updates to the project management and business ownership teams
- Identifies, resolves, and recommends solutions to standard and non-standard problems
- Possesses strong problem management and problem resolution skills
- Serves as an example of professionalism, dedication, and conscientiousness for organization
- Supports and applies department and company goals to personal goals
- Creates and manages own resource plan
- Works with Product business owners to ensure solutions meet organization strategic objectives
- Identify and suggest improvements in design, development and release process of our products

**Other Duties**
- Help new architects in the team with on-boarding process and training
- Mentorship and guidance to other architects in the team
- Task delegation on a weekly basis
- SME on various systems used with the organization
- The above list is not all-inclusive as additional duties may be assigned by the supervisor

**Required Qualifications**
- BSc or MSc or equivalent in Computer Science or related field
- High degree of experience of software design and coding, with emphasis on at least one of embedded and/or security related software development
- Experience with C++/C and Linux
- Experience of Object Oriented Analysis and Design, and Object Oriented Programming.
- Familiar with diverse, complex problems and adept at devising reasonable solutions or alternatives
- Proven experience translating Business Requirements into solutions
- Technical leader and coach, aware of applicability of new technologies
- Can work at an abstract level and create abstractions that clarify and contribute to system integrity and solution design
- 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, Innovative, Insightful and able to make technical leaps, finding novel solutions
- Excels at grasping existing code, and identifying opportunities to improve and to integrate with existing code
- Effective and comfortable working with high-level management.
- Strong written and oral communication skills including proven success in working with stakeholders with a wide range of technical knowledge
- Comfortable working in an environment that is growing rapidly and constantly addressing the inherent challenges

**Preferred Qualifications**
- 5+ years work experience as a technical leader/architect
- Extensive experience in payment industry for a minimum of 5 years