IT Architect Specialist

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. 

• Collaborates with clients and other functional areas SMEs in the design of IT Roadmaps items to illustrate architectural complexities and interactions of information systems. 
• Analyses, refines and documents the business requirements of the client. Analyses existing systems to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement. 
• Plans and designs information systems and implements updates within scope of established guidelines and objectives.
• Researches new technological advances to assess current practices for compliance with systems requirements. Recommends solutions to address current system needs, process improvements and controls. . Makes recommendations for future information system needs.
• Provides technical architecture and support across applications and guidance to other functional areas to define software/hardware requirements and in planning and delivering infrastructure. 
• Analyses infrastructure and capacity planning.
• Employs a thorough knowledge of required procedures, methodologies and/or application standards, including Payment Card Industry (PCI) and security related compliance to write or modify software programs to include analysis, writing specifications and code, program installation and documentation for use with multiple application/user database systems. Maintains information systems by configuring software and hardware, tracking errors and data movement, and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with engineers across the Core Transaction Processing Team to create technical designs, develop, test and solve complex problems that drive the solution from initial concept to production.
• Contribute to our Automated build, deploy and test processes for each solution.
• Work in an iterative manner that fits well with the development practices and pace within the team, with focus on a fail fast approach.
• Demo your work for colleagues and members of the business team.
• Conduct research on new and interesting technologies that help to progress our products and platforms.
• Create mechanisms/architectures that enable rapid recovery, repair and cleanup of existing solutions with good understanding of fault tolerance and failure domains.
• Identify opportunities to deliver self service capability for the most common infrastructure and application management tasks.
• Create automated tests that easily plug into our automated code pipeline.
• Provide deep and detailed levels of monitoring across all levels of the application.
• Attend sessions, seminars and be an evangelist for the latest technology.
• Help mentor other engineers and technical analysts.
• Plan sprints within your project team to keep yourself and the team moving forward.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience 11- 14 Years
• B-Tech / Master's Degree ( Regular)
• Computer Science or Information Systems

• Experience of working on SOA Architecture, Microservices Architecture, Event drives and serverless architectures.
• Good Knowledge of JAVA/JEE Design Patterns, Enterprise Integration Design Patterns ,SOA Design Patterns, MicroServices Design Patterns. Experience of working on RestFull services, SOAP WebServices, gRPC , Async & streaming technologies.
• Experience of working onJava 1.8 +, Spring 4.x+,Spring Boot, Spring data, SpringREST, Spring MVC, Spring-integration (i.e. no EJB :), Tomcat 8.5.x (embedded version), JUnit + Spring-test, application stack
• Experience of working on ORM / Persistence frameworks or technologies like Hibernate , MyBatis, iBatis
• Experience on designing and developing Fault Tolerant , HA systems
• Good hands on experience on AWS stack and services like S3,EC2, KMS, EKS, MSK, Lambda, IAM, RDS, Dynamo, Cloudwatch
• Good hands on experience on Cloud Native projects like Prometheus, Grafana,Argo, Harbour, Helm, Istio,K8S,
• Good experience of working on Agile development model and Automation Test driven development (TDD) methodologies.
• Good experience of using container technology to build out an automated platform architecture that allows for seamless deployment between on-premise and external cloud environments
• Good experience of leveraging open technology such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Bash, Javascript, Python, Git, Jenkins, Linux, HAProxy, AWS Cloud, ELK, Java, Kafka, MongoDB, Zookeeper, and AWS Amazon Web Service (EC2 Container Service, Cloud Formation, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling Group).
• Good experience of Integrating systems using a wide variety of protocols like REST, SOAP, MQ, TCP/IP, JSON and others
• Good experience of designing and building automated code deployment systems that simplify development work and make our work more consistent and predictable.
• Exhibit a deep understanding of server virtualization, networking and storage ensuring that the solution scales and performs with high availability and uptime.

• Is Adaptable, Result oriented, portrays a positive attitude, Flexible & Multi Task orientated.
• Is able to accept guidance and is a good listener.
• Has Good oral and written communication skills
• Has ability to understand business needs and translate them into technology solutions.
• Has strong research and problem resolution skills
• Is a strong Team Player, with good time management, interpersonal & presentation skills. 
• Has strong customer focus & understands external and internal customer expectations
• Is able to articulate Technical solutions in language understood by business users.
• Has a go getter attitude to handle challenging development tasks.
• Can drive Change and has a good Innovation track record.

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