Software Architect

About InvoiceCloud: 

InvoiceCloud is a leading provider of online bill payment services. Founded in 2009, the company has grown to be one of the leading disruptors in the cloud-based electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) space, helping institutions put customer experience first. By switching to InvoiceCloud, clients can improve customer engagement, loyalty, and efficiency while reducing churn and missed payments in the process. With over 50 million payments processed annually, InvoiceCloud is one of the most secure, innovative, and inclusive fintech solutions in the market. To learn more, visit www.InvoiceCloud.com. 

The Invoice Cloud Engineering team owns the overall architecture, development, delivery, data, site reliability, security, availability, and innovation of our industry-leading SaaS customer engagement, e-billing, and payment platform used by thousands of businesses and millions of customers. With its market-leading solutions, partnership model and vertical focus, Invoice Cloud is scaling rapidly with an annual organic growth rate of approximately 40% plus further growth from acquisitions. Within a few years, Invoice Cloud expects to process hundreds of millions of transactions annually.  

To realize this journey and future growth, we are looking for a SW, Architect to join the engineering architecture technology group (VP& Architects, Distinguished Engineers, and SMEs) and lead assigned project initiatives. This role will report to VP, Engineering Architecture and will not have any direct reports to begin with. This hands-on technical role will partner with our diverse group of engineering & product leaders across different areas of excellence – software engineering, data services, cloud engineering, quality engineering, integrations, solutions engineering & service management. The ideal individual is an influential software engineer with senior level experience in financial services, preferably in payments domain, and able to champion and influence enterprise-wide engineering & architecture practices like monolith to microservices transformation, test-driven development, automated testing, infrastructure as code, site reliability, lean agile & DevSecOps mindset. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who has a passion for software design, empowering engineering squads, and keen to solve business problems by finding ways to lead with influence, rather than authority. 

Outcomes 

First 90 days 

• Develop an understanding of the current business model, major initiatives, and key stakeholders. 
• Develop an understanding of the current software, data & cloud architectures 
• Develop and understanding of the current software, testing, DevSecOps processes, and tools. 
• Become familiar with key systems, service management and operational processes.  
• Demonstrate ability to support, modify and add new functionality to the current software applications. 
• Begin participation in architecture and agile transformation initiatives. 
• Socialize areas of improvement observed during the onboarding & training period. 

Ongoing  

The SW, Architect role will have a broad set of responsibilities including the following: 

• Design, plan, and execute on assigned project initiatives 
• Own technical direction by developing a deep, strategic understanding of the company p