Senior Solutions Architect - Credit Card Payments

We currently have a career opportunity for a Senior Solutions Architect to join our team. This is a REMOTE role, but the successful candidate will be located within the United States or United Kingdom and available to travel 15-20%.

Job Overview:

Senior Solution Architect with a focus on Card Payments and Merchant Services onboarding and KYC / AML expertise.

The ideal candidate will design complex, large scale / enterprise-wide systems and integrations using best practices and patterns and guide the development and implementation of digital systems that support the onboarding and KYC for Card Payment Processing and Merchant Services.

This role is at the forefront of our strategic initiatives, working directly with customers to shape programs that drive innovation and growth.  The Architect is responsible for creating a vision, strategy and governance model for the development across the enterprise. They will establish guiding principles, roadmaps, standards, patterns, and adaptable governance to deliver the strategy and drive the realization of business outcomes.  The candidates’ primary responsibility will be to provide Enterprise Architecture best practices, analysis and design, proven integration patterns and market research in support of our complex Enterprise Customers.  This person should be comfortable working in a challenging and fast-paced environment as well as working with senior leaders including C-Level in identifying technology trends and disruptors and then developing strategic plans.

Perficient is always looking for the best and brightest talent and we need you! We’re a quickly-growing, global digital consulting leader, and we’re transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands. You’ll work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, and become a part of our global community of talented, diverse, and knowledgeable colleagues.

• Provide architectural solutions/designs to product and developer teams for implementation.
• Provide technology architectural assessments, strategies, and roadmaps for one or more technology domains.
• Collaborate with application developers, users, operational leadership, and subject matter experts to understand current and future operational data analysis goals. Recommend modern technology stacks to meet those goals and help engineering teams migrate towards their use.
• Collaborate with the customer's product, operations, and technology leadership on the future analytic goals of the organization and design a technical architecture to meet those goals. Lead the architecture configuration and advise engineering teams on its efficient use.
• Help provide alternative solutions and guide product teams to an optimal fit from both an engineering effort and timely delivery to market.
• Act our core Technical Team member leading the design and development of software applications, ensuring they meet both functional and user experience requirements.
• Lead the technical planning & requirements gathering phases including estimate, architect, development and delivery.
• Oversee code quality and ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.
• Guide an engineering team, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation.
• Utilize analytical, process, and/or technical skills to meet project objectives and deliverables that are self-directed and within project scope.
• Ensure team deliverables are of the highest quality to promote client satisfaction
• Managing relationships, coalitions and communications with senior and executive level business and technology leaders to influence desired outcomes without direct authority

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field is preferred.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and problem-solving skills.
• Proven track record of technical leadership roles delivering solutions within defined timeframes.
• Experience working as an enterprise, solutions architect and developing solution implementation frameworks is a plus.
• Knowledge of a modern, cloud-based enterprise architecture best practices and patterns
• Proven expertise of managing and leading cross-functional matrixed teams. Ability to coach resources to elevate performance and drive results.
• Minimum 7-10 years of experience in enterprise architecture, software development, or a combination of both.
• 3+ years Payment’s processing experience in Card Payments and/or Merchant Services
• 1-2 Years of functional and technical experience with Merchant onboarding
• Functional and technical knowledge of Card Payments KYC, AML, and Data Protection standards, including but not limited to: PIC Standards, ISO8583, PSD2 / PSD3, AMLD, GDPR, etc.
• 3+ year