Senior Architect, Software Engineering - Austin, TX (Hybrid)
Western Union1 day ago
Base Salary
$160k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end solution architecture and technical design for new products, platforms, and business initiatives.
- Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions with engineering and business stakeholders.
- Design and implement cloud-native, microservices-based, distributed, API-first, and event-driven architectures.
- Design architectures supporting real-time and batch payment flows.
- Provide technical leadership on architecture standards, design patterns, development practices, and technical strategy.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and drive performance optimization, troubleshooting, reliability, scalability, maintainability, and operational excellence.
- Collaborate with global cross-functional teams to deliver technology solutions aligned with business objectives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field plus 10+ years of software engineering experience, or a master’s degree plus 8+ years of software engineering experience.
- At least 5 years of experience designing and implementing enterprise software architectures.
- Experience building and deploying microservices-based applications at scale.
- Experience developing applications with Java and related enterprise technologies.
- Experience with web services, APIs, software design patterns, object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
- Experience working in Agile development environments with continuous integration and continuous delivery practices.
- Experience partnering with business and technical stakeholders to deliver technology solutions.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS Cloud and its compute, API and integration, data, security, and monitoring services.
- Preferred experience in financial services, fintech, payments, digital banking, wallets, card issuing, payment rails, transactional systems, security, risk, regulatory compliance, and highly available architectures.
- Preferred experience with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or hybrid cloud environments, enterprise architecture standards, technical strategy, and emerging technologies.
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work full-time in the United States.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- Short-term incentives, accident insurance, tuition assistance, employee discounts, parental leave, and a 401K plan.
- Access to development platforms and other country-specific benefits.
- Hybrid work arrangement in Austin, Texas, with an expectation of at least three days per week in the office.
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About Western Union
Western Union provides cross-border consumer and business payment services, including digital and agent-based money transfers, bill pay, and remittances. It generates revenue from transaction fees and foreign-exchange spreads, serves customers in over 200 countries and territories through retail agents and digital channels, and is a public company founded in 1851 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with shares listed on the NYSE and BMV.