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Job Description
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 1300 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.
Global Payments Platform team is seeking a Cloud Solution Architect to create and implement a strategy to move our merchant acquiring technology services to industry-leading cloud platforms.
Ideal candidates are well versed in the challenges large companies face across their people process and technology when implementing large-scale cloud migrations and/or digital transformations. This includes leadership application development operations security compliance business case development technology budgeting etc. They use this knowledge to help identify and overcome similar challenges create and deliver presentations to audiences develop and facilitate executive briefings and develop/improve mechanisms to help teams gain value from the cloud. You will be actively contributing your knowledge of modern software architecture and technologies and the most current software development frameworks and techniques. You will be promoting the use of the latest trends in available company standard cloud technologies and architecture to produce services that meet the demands in a fast-moving environment. The current organization is made up of multiple different technology platforms and tech stacks to include both mainframe and distributed technologies.
What Part Will You Play
Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to create a unified strategy for GCP and Azure cloud transformation governance automation security implementation and operations
Partner with Enterprise Architecture teams to develop target cloud solution architecture patterns and system requirements analyze existing application and IT deployments propose requirements and designs craft an automation approach drive implementation
Design prototype and deliver GCP and Azure cloud-native solutions leverage platform rich service offerings
Design prototype and implement cloud landing zones for Monetary Systems applications
Participate and drive gathering of technical requirements for deployment through a variety of techniques (e.g. facilitated workshops work sessions for major initiatives; performs technical analysis with the team and design cloud best practices
Prepare cloud guidance standards requirements design and ensure that the end product is aligned to the cloud strategy and overall enterprise architecture standards
Develop and implement strategies for moving on-premise software to the cloud
Experience designing building maintaining and securing cloud microservices IaaS and PaaS solutions for highly available business critical cloud-based systems
Experience automating configuration management and deploying PaaS solutions in private and public cloud using any of the following IaC tools: Terraform Ansible CloudFormation Docker etc.
Drive cloud security and compliance requirements into the cloud architecture framework including for the data integration points with on-premise and other cloud systems
Present technical concepts and specific solutions to internal audiences of varying technical capabilities in a clear concise and easily understood manner
Be the evangelist of cloud architecture and influence BTS leaders to adhere to the architectural framework and its principles
Champion and the advocate of adoption of best design practices and ensure cloud products are built consistently aligned to the expressed cloud architecture
Provide reference implementations and sample repositories that can be utilized by BTS
Maintain and advance deep technical skills and knowledge keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights and share within the technical community
What Are We Looking For in This Role
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelors Degree required in Computer Science or Engineering Masters Degree preferred
7 years of experience in designing and driving the implementation of large-scale commercial enterprise-class cloud software using cloud principles and architectural patterns
Avid technologist with deep expertise in GCP Azure cloud and/or other public/private/hybrid cloud architecture domains
Strong foundational infrastructure skills including architecture principles and design patterns of distributed systems in private and public cloud
Proficiency in modern software architecture scalability reliability and in RESTful APIs and how they are used in the cloud
Working experience developing solutions with cloud orchestration tools
Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform IaaS and PaaS technologies and solution implementation patterns
Strong aptitude for collaboration and ability to lead and influence a team of leaders as well as mentor engineers
Experience and understanding of large scale infrastructure deployments in enterprise-wide environments required
Excellent active listening skills that enable you to understand the goals and challenges to craft meaningful solutions
Capable of understanding and solving complex technical concepts
Demonstrated collaboration skills along with the ability to influence without authority
Track record of innovation results and ability to collaborate and affect change across functions
Preferred Qualifications
Experience evaluating existing application design and making recommendations for enhancing applications to leverage cloud technology and services
Experience having successfully guided the refactoring of a large monolithic application into multiple micro-services
Working experience with modern development and delivery methodologies such as Agile and CI/CD and ability to apply these processes fit for purpose
Working knowledge with implementing and managing Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
Working knowledge in container and container management technologies (Docker Kubernetes DC/OS)
Working knowledge in either SQL (Oracle SQL Server other) or NoSQL (Cassandra HBase MongoDB Cloudera Impala Dynamo Redis other)
Demonstrates a strong work ethic able to multi-task and ability to work well under pressure
Written and verbal communication skills including group leadership and executive presentations
Working knowledge of the payment processing industry
Experience with data management and data integration technologies (Kafka Hadoop Spark other) is required.
Benefits:
Global Payments offers a comprehensive benefits package to all of our team members including medical dental and vision care EAP programs paid time off recognition programs retirement and investment options charitable gift matching programs and worldwide days of service. To learn more review our Benefits page at: role is eligible to be primarily remote within the United States. However candidates must reside within a reasonable commuting distance to one of our office locations as occasional on-site presence may be required for team meetings training sessions or company events.
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At this time we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work for any employer in the United States (or (applicable country) on a full-time basis without the need for current or future immigration sponsorship.
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Employment Type
Full-Time
