Principal Software Architect -Payments

An extraordinarily talented group of individuals work together every day to drive TNS' success, from both professional and personal perspectives.  Come join the excellence!

Overview

This role is to lead the architecture within the business for their provided product sets. This will encompass the high-level design of all new large features and functions as well as any integrations with other internal and external products

Responsibilities

A high-level view of all pieces required must be maintained in this role and must ensure each development team building the products is empowered to design the technical detail. This role must ensure that any designs the team make are in line with the overall business direction and vision for the various products .

Work closely with the Product Owners, Scrum Masters and other various stakeholders to help define the customer requirements and translate these in to designs and solutions that the development teams will build. These designs will be used to create the user stories and epics that will be prioritized.

Qualifications

Perform architectural analysis and design for systems spanning the assigned products

· Partner with various business stakeholders and technology leaders to translate requirements into technical solutions and system designs

· Document and communicate designs, estimates, and implementation plans to stakeholders

· Collaborate with other members of the Application Development team, including technical leads, to evaluate solutions and gain consensus on technical direction

· Research, design, test, and evaluate new technologies and vendor solutions

· Implement POCs and technical leads on implementations

· Maintain an organization-wide view of current and future business and application architecture to provide solutions that integrate into the overall architectural vision and strategy

· Provide leadership and expertise in the development of standards, architectural governance, design patterns, and practices.

10+ years of technical leadership and architecture experience in software development

· 5+ years’ experience designing and delivering large scale distributed systems (ideally using modern SOA patterns and REST)

· Solid understanding of security/access control, scalability, high availability, and concurrency patterns

· Flexibility and creativity in solution design - including leveraging emerging technologies

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills

· Ability to clearly explain and justify ideas when faced with competing alternatives

· Ability to communicate and apply common architectural design patterns across a wide range of technical problems

· Prior experience with at least one major cloud provider (preferable AWS)

· Prior experience with relational and non-relational database technologies (PostgreSQL, MSSQL, DynamoDB, etc)

· Prior experience with agile development, continuous delivery, and DevOps

· Strong understanding of infrastructure and related technologies (hardware, virtualization, networking)

· Proficient in at least one static OO language (C#, Java)

· Proficient in at least one dynamic language (JavaScript, Python, Node.js a plus)

· Proficient in current development tools (Visual Studio, Eclipse, Git)

Industry certifications in associated technologies (ie AWS, VMware, Cisco, etc)

If you are passionate about technology, love personal growth and opportunity, come see what TNS is all about!

TNS is an equal opportunity employer. TNS evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.