Enterprise Architect

Senior Advisor Software Architecture

About your role:
At Fiserv we build digital banking platforms that serve financial institutions and their customers worldwide. The Software Architecture team designs scalable secure and resilient platform architectures that enable next-generation banking experiences. As a Senior Advisor you will shape architecture strategy and ensure practical high-quality solutions that drive platform reliability and innovation.

What youll do:

• Lead the development and implementation of enterprise software architecture strategies standards and reference architectures to support scalable resilient banking platforms.
• Partner with product engineering and business stakeholders to align architectural direction with strategic objectives and delivery roadmaps.
• Provide expert guidance on solution design integration patterns and cross-system interoperability across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Remain hands-on with technologyparticipate in critical design reviews prototyping and implementation decisions to ensure architectures are actionable and high quality.
• Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies and patterns that improve performance cost-efficiency and developer productivity.
• Develop and maintain architectural artifacts: models blueprints API contracts and operational runbooks.
• Mentor and coach other architects and senior engineers to elevate architecture reviews and enforce best practices.
• Responsibilities listed are not intended to be all-inclusive and may be modified as necessary.

Experience youll need to have:

• 12 years of experience in software architecture for large-scale distributed and microservices-based systems including event-driven and domain-driven design.
• 12 years of experience in C# Core application development library design and performance optimization.
• 12 years of experience implementing security and compliance controls encryption frameworks and identity/access management (e.g. OAuth2 OpenID Connect).
• 10 years of experience with public cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) and cloud-native services.
• 10 years of experience with relational and NoSQL databases (SQL Server PostgreSQL DynamoDB Cosmos DB MongoDB) data modeling and performance tuning.
• 10 years of experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation (Terraform CloudFormation ARM/Bicep) CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins GitHub Actions Azure DevOps) and containerization (Docker).
• 8 years of experience with container orchestration service mesh and API technologies (Kubernetes Istio HTTP/JSON APIs OpenAPI).
• 8 years of equivalent combination of educational background related experience and/or military experience.

Experience that would be great to have:

• Deep hands-on experience with service mesh implementations (Istio Linkerd) and advanced Kubernetes operational patterns.
• Experience with observability and telemetry stacks (OpenTelemetry Prometheus Grafana ELK) and distributed tracing at scale.
• Prior work in highly regulated environments with exposure to compliance frameworks (PCI DSS SOC2) and secure release processes.
• Experience with chaos engineering or performance/scale testing tools (k6 Gatling Chaos Mesh).
• Proven track record of leading architecture reviews and presenting technical strategy to executive stakeholders

How youll work:

• This role is on-site Monday through Friday. Fiserv considers in-person collaboration to be an essential part of this role as in-person office experiences help you with your overall onboarding experience and leads to stronger productivity.
• This role requires the use of a computer and audio equipment.
• You will work an assigned schedule of <>.
• This role requires being on-call during non-standard and/or overnight hours on a rotational basis.
• This role requires flexibility to work overtime including weekends and holidays.
• This role requires frequent moving and/or carrying of materials weighing up to 50 pounds.
• This role requires the ability to stand for a majority of the shift; safely lift and/or carry up to 50 pounds; lift above your shoulders; and climb squat kneel twist push and bend frequently during each shift.

Sponsorship:

• You must currently possess valid and unrestricted U.S. work authorization to be considered for this role. Individuals with temporary visas including but not limited to F-1 (OPT CPT STEM) H-1B H-2 or TN or any candidate requiring sponsorship now or in the future will not be considered for this role.

Benefits at Fiserv:

• Fuel Your Life program to support physical financial social and emotional well-being
• Paid holidays and generous time away policies
• No-cost mental health support through Employee Assistance Programs
• Living Proof program to recognize your peers extra effort with points used for rewards
• Eight Employee Resource Groups to foster a collaborative culture
• Unparalleled professional growth with training development and internal mobility opportunities
• Retirement planning and discounted shares with the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Medical dental vision life and disability insurance options available day one
• Tuition assistance and reimbursement program
• Paid parental caregiver and military leave