Principle Solution Architect

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.

ABOUT GLOBAL PAYMENTS

Whether youre a merchant accepting payments a bank issuing cards or a developer embedding payment technology if it has anything to do with commerce wereAlready on it!Thats why 5m customers and 7k software partners around the world rely on Global Payments to handle more than 73b transactions every year.

Through local expertise and global scale atGlobal Payments wedeliver market-leading technology solutions through five regional sub-brands Eway Ezidebit Sentral Pigeonhole Software and Storman.

These brands are anchored by Global Payments a Fortune 500 brand and commerce leader powering millions of companies around the world from ambitious startups to enterprise giants.

We make a positive impact on our customers and communities through our values ofPassion Care Accountability Excellence and Ingenuity.

Underpinning our values is our commitment to Diversity Equity and Inclusion woven into our cultural DNA through a multi-year Oceania program focused on two core pillars of action -Reconciliation and Gender Equity.

As pioneers within the Australia and New Zealand payments landscapeEwayis a leading business-to-business ecommerce provider andEzidebita digital recurring business-to-consumer payments processing platform.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As aPrincipal Solution Architect you will play a critical role in shaping and guiding the technical direction of complex enterprise-scale solutions. Working closely with business and technology stakeholders youll translate business requirements into robust architectural designs that serve as the blueprint for delivery.

Youll operate across the full Product Development Life Cycle providing technical leadership effort estimation architectural governance and hands-on guidance to solution architects and engineering teams. This is a highly collaborative role with global reach partnering with teams across North America Europe India and the Asia-Pacific region.

What youll do:

• Engage with business and technology stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into scalable secure solution architectures
• Define theend-to-end technical visionfor solutions providing clear architectural direction and design standards
• Support and mentor solution architects and delivery teams through detailed design and implementation
• Provide guidance on thefuture evolution of the platform ensuring alignment with business strategy and technical best practices
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture product agile delivery project management and senior leadership teams
• Promote architectural standards governance and best practices across the organisation
• Ensure architecture design and delivery align with governance frameworks standards and processes

ABOUT YOU

You thrive in a globally connected technology environment working on complex high-impact platforms that support critical business operations. You enjoy influencing technology strategy mentoring others and shaping scalable solutions. Youre a technically strong architect who excels at bridging business needs with practical well-designed technology.

Youll also bring:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related discipline
• 10 years experience in software development including 5 years designing enterprise-grade software solutions
• Strong experience acrosscloud hybrid and on-prem architectures with a deep understanding of RESTful APIs and microservices
• Hands-on experience with technologies such asJava and/or C# modern data stores/databases and at least one major cloud platform
• Proven ability to work across both technical and non-technical stakeholders to deliver outcomes
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and guide senior decision-makers
• Strategic thinker who can look beyond stated requirements to understand underlying business needs
• Self-directed and comfortable taking ownership from concept through to solution

Nice to haves:

• Experience withGoogle Cloud Platform and/or Azure
• Knowledge ofDocker Kubernetes CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices
• Experience working inAgile environmentswith multiple delivery teams
• Background inpayments banking or merchant-acquiringenvironments
• Strong analytical problem-solving prioritisation and decision-making skills

SALARY

• The salary range for this role is 175000 to $188000 AUD plus superannuation.

OUR BENEFITS

Join a leading global technology brand that offers benefits youll actually value including:

• Flexible work arrangements that support your unique need;

• 18 weeks paid parental leave for either parent as well as two weeks paid secondary carers leave;

• Women in Digital membership granting you access to a host of member industry events and resources;

• Additional birthday community giving wellness and study leave;

• Our free and confidential Employee Assistance Program counselling service and wellbeing resources;

• A jam-packed calendar of cultural celebrations and social activities;

• Global career and professional development opportunities;

• Salary sacrifice and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

READY TO APPLY

Want to join a team that places the needs of our people clientsand community at the heart of everything they doAPPLY NOWby submitting your CV. Please note you will be redirected to a Global Payments careers page to submit your application.

All final applicantsfor this positionwill be asked to consent to a criminal history check. Each application will be considered on its merits.

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