Technical Architect - Payment Domain

Technical Architect

Work Location: Bangalore / Chennai / Hyderabad

We are looking for an exceptional and highly motivated professional for an Individual Contributor role who has
sound Technical Architectural Leadership, playing a vital role in designing, enhancing, integrating and scaling new technology into the E-commerce/Payments Domain.

Roles:

- Demonstrates expertise and leadership in working with business units, product management, development, Architecture and operations to architect innovative solutions in an Agile environment that meet company needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability, realistic implementation schedules and adherence to architectural goals and principles.

- Drives technical designs to consensus and approval. Designs solutions for specific use-cases that provide frameworks, interfaces and services that can be extended and reused for future requirements.

- Reviews external technologies and products for their applicability to specific project requirements. Is able to compare various solutions and select the one most appropriate for the project and company.

- Mentors development team and others on architecture direction for specific projects.

Job Requirements

- Experience in requirements analysis, design, development and unit testing of distributed, fault-tolerant applications with particular attention to security, scalability and high performance.

- Experience developing solutions in an Agile software development environment desirable.

- Experience with architecting high volume online and off-line systems or large transaction client-server systems.

- Experience developing and architecting Financial or Payment systems desirable.

- Excellent communication and relationship skills, especially the ability to articulate advanced technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences;

- Ability to articulate business issues/concerns with staff, peers, superiors, and outside parties (e.g. vendors, partners).

- Demonstrable analytical and problem solving skills.

- Very strong technical leadership and ability to command respect at all levels of the organization.

- Ability to thrive in a high-pressured but highly structured, customer-oriented environment; Ability to contribute to multiple projects/demands simultaneously.

- Strong object modeling skills.

- Experience designing highly scalable enterprise services, applications and batch solutions in Java, LINUX or UNIX. Experience working in C++ desirable.

- Experienced working with application servers (Tomcat/Geronimo/JBOSS), servlets, threading, Spring frameworks, JMS, REST, JDBC desirable.

- Experience with XML, schemas, and XML parsers and tools a plus.

- Extensive knowledge and experience with database design and optimization on platforms such as Oracle, MySQL, Mongo DB.

- Experience with O-R mapping, persistence and caching mechanisms.

- Experience with Big Data tools and solutions including Hadoop and Apache Pig desirable.

Qualifications: Bachelors + Masters or equivalent experience (Preferably from Premium institutes)