Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect – Emerging Technology (Payments & Cloud Innovation)

Location: Charlotte, NC or Jersey City, NJ

Duration: 18 Months

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Employment Type: W2 Only

***W2 ONLY NO SPONSORSHIP ALLOWED***

We are seeking a seasoned Solutions Architect with 15+ years of architecture experience to provide technical leadership across emerging technology, payments innovation, and cloud transformation initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as a technical thought leader across payments, cloud, and emerging technologies.
• Translate new concepts into scalable, secure, and buildable architectures.
• Guide engineering teams through implementation and provide architectural direction.
• Lead architecture decisions, design reviews, POCs, and technical evaluations.
• Establish architecture standards, patterns, roadmaps, and best practices.
• Partner with technology leaders, product owners, and delivery teams.

Required Qualifications:

• 15+ years of Solutions Architecture or Enterprise Architecture experience.
• Strong experience with cloud-native and distributed systems.
• Expertise in microservices, DDD, Apache Kafka, and integration patterns.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Experience with NoSQL and/or distributed SQL databases.
• Strong understanding of scalability, security, resiliency, and high-availability architecture.
• Prior software development experience with a strong progression into architecture.
• Excellent communication, technical leadership, and facilitation skills.
• Financial services or payments experience strongly preferred.

Important: This is an architecture and technical leadership role, not a primarily hands‑on development position. We are looking for someone who has a proven history of shaping ideas, influencing technical direction, and guiding delivery teams.