Solutions Architect

**Company Description**
Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose - to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

What we do

Member of the Visa family since its acquisition in November 2020, YellowPepper's proven platform, Yepex®, enables issuers to easily launch card and account agnostic real-time payments solutions (P2P, P2M, and Cross-Border, among others) while providing value added services such as tokenization, identity validation and risk tools to deliver a complete transaction and service offering. The company is creating the Next Generation Payment Ecosystem to help financial institutions, retailers, and their customers to transact digitally, with security, anytime and anywhere. Operating in 11 countries, the Miami-based global company currently serves 50 clients and 6 million monthly active users.

Our Vision:
Create the foundation of the Digital Economy to enable the best and most secure everyday life experience.

Our Mission:
To create the next generation Payment Ecosystem to simplify people’s lives

What we are looking for:
Financial or Mobile Services experience a distinct plus.

**Responsibilities**:

- Working with project stakeholders to understand and elicit functional and non-functional requirements as well as business goals.
- Creating, documenting, evaluating architectures. Communicate the architectures cross-organizationally.
- Evaluating technology choices, creating PoCs (Proof of Concepts).
- Perform sizing and estimation.
- Create client-facing technical presentation and documentation material.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.
**Qualifications**

Basic Qualifications:

- 8+ years of software development.
- 3+ years working in an enterprise or solution architecture role.
- Leadership and team management experience with the ability to provide strategic planning and oversight of solution design and implementation.
- Able to communicate with customers, including C level, to gather needs and articulate solutions.
- Experience leading customer workshop sessions to elicit non-functional requirements.
- Demonstrable experience designing microservice architectures.
- Knowledgeable in microservice patterns.
- Expert in Spring development.
- Experience in implementing RESTful web services.
- API documentation experience.
- Knowledgeable in architecture best practices and frameworks.
- Experience with Enterprise Integration Patterns and Frameworks.
- Strong understanding of the philosophy and purpose of MVVM front-end frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, etc.) and when and how to use them.
- Knowledge of modern development practices such as Kubernetes & Docker.
- Experience with GCP.
- Experience with SQL & NoSQL databases.
- Experience using Authentication/Authorization protocols such as OAuth2.
- Load testing experience.
- Education Level: Bachelor’s.
- Years of Experience: 10 to 15 years.
- Languages: Spanish and English.

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with a globally distributed team and managing off-shore teams.
- Kafka
- Financial services experience.
- Portuguese is a plus.

**Additional Information**

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.