Architect Cloud & Modernization

About Payoneer

Founded in 2005 Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders with a mission to connect the worlds underserved businesses to a rising global economy. Were a community with over 2500 colleagues all over the world working to serve customers and partners in over 190 countries and territories.

By taking the complexity out of the financial workflowsincluding everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management to providing working capital and business intelligencewe give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.

About Payoneer

Founded in 2005 Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders with a mission to connect the worlds underserved businesses to a rising global economy. Were a community with over 2500 colleagues all over the world working to serve customers and partners in over 190 countries and territories.

By taking the complexity out of the financial workflowsincluding everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management to providing working capital and business intelligencewe give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.

Role summary

Were looking for a Principal Architect who is a tech-enthusiast with a drive for excellence and an out-of-the-box mindset to satisfy business needs in a complex payment solution environment.

Location: Gurgaon-India

Hybrid - Full-time

What Youll Do

• You will be a core member of the Cloud Modernization initiative a high-impact engineering function responsible for transforming our technology backbone into a modern cloud-native platform.
• You will operate at the intersection of cloud architecture and enterprise modernization leading critical initiatives to migrate modernize and re-architect legacy platforms into scalable secure and highly automated cloud-native systems.
• You will lead initiatives from a technical front defining target architectures establishing modernization patterns and driving execution across engineering teams. You will design and implement cloud-native solutions modern infrastructure platforms and secure cloud environments that can support global-scale workloads.
• This role operates in a mission-driven model where you will engage with multiple teams to accelerate modernization unblock critical initiatives and establish patterns and platforms that can be adopted broadly across the organization.
• You will work closely with architecture platform infrastructure security and product teams to modernize legacy systems migrate databases and applications to the cloud introduce modern DevOps and platform engineering practices and raise the overall cloud maturity of the organization.
• Your work will directly shape the companys future cloud platform and engineering velocity.

Who You Are

• You are a seasoned Cloud and Modernization Architect with a strong sense of ownership and accountability. You are comfortable operating in complex enterprise environments and driving large-scale transformation initiatives.
• You bring deep expertise across cloud platforms infrastructure databases and DevOps and can translate legacy architectures into modern scalable and cloud-native systems.
• You balance long-term architectural vision with pragmatic execution and understand how to modernize systems safely and incrementally.
• You embrace change and continuously adapt to evolving technologies architectures and organizational needs. You are proactive curious and comfortable making architectural decisions in ambiguous environments.
• You thrive in cross-team environments and influence teams through technical leadership clarity and strong execution.
• You are impact-driven not territory-driven and measure success by how effectively you modernize systems enable teams and improve the organizations overall cloud maturity.

Key skills and competencies

• 10 years of experience in cloud architecture infrastructure or platform engineering
• Deep hands-on experience with public cloud platforms preferably AWS
• Proven experience leading cloud migration and modernization of enterprise systems
• Strong experience designing cloud architecture including compute storage networking and security
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code preferably Terraform or CloudFormation
• Experience with cloud networking VPC design private connectivity and secure architectures
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL MySQL or Aurora
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB MongoDB or similar
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes preferably EKS
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices
• Experience modernizing legacy systems into microservices or cloud-native architectures
• Experience with high availability scalability and disaster recovery design
• Experience working in enterprise environments with strong security and compliance requirements
• B.S. in computer science or equivalent

The Payoneer Ways of Working Act as our customers partner on the inside

Learning what they need and creating what will help them go further.

Continuously improve

Always striving for a higher standard than our last.

Do it. Own it.

Being fearlessly accountable in everything we do.

Build each other up

Helping each other grow as professionals and people.

If this sounds like a business a community and a mission you want to be part of apply today.

We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace. Payoneer is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment no matter your race color ancestry religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require reasonable accommodation at any stage of the hiring process please speak to the recruiter managing the role for any adjustments. Decisions about requests for reasonable accommodation are made on a case-by-case basis.

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