2 months ago
Plano, TX, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Lead technical discussions with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.
- Translate customer and business needs into software requirements, target architectures, solution blueprints, interface definitions, and non-functional requirements.
- Guide application, API, data, security, observability, resilience, and operational-supportability decisions.
- Coordinate with R&D architects and delivery teams to ensure customer-driven requirements are implementable, supportable, and aligned with roadmap priorities.
- Partner with security, risk, and compliance stakeholders on identity, privacy, fraud prevention, auditability, and regulatory controls.
- Support solution shaping, effort estimation, technical risk assessment, and value argumentation.
- Contribute to architecture governance, technical standards, reusable assets, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Extensive experience as a Software Architect or in software, solution, or platform architecture for complex distributed systems.
- Practical software development and coding experience with an understanding of modern development practices.
- Experience designing secure, scalable, API-driven platforms, integrations, and distributed systems.
- Knowledge of microservices, event-driven architecture, cloud-native design, data models, and systems integration patterns.
- Experience working with customers and stakeholders across product, R&D, operations, commercial, and delivery teams.
- Ability to simplify complex technical topics, translate needs into requirements, and influence customer and engineering decisions.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred: experience with financial services, digital wallets, payments, banking, ledgering, KYC, AML, fraud, compliance platforms, or financial inclusion services.
- Preferred: knowledge of financial-services standards and protocols, regulated production environments, auditability, privacy, security, compliance, public cloud, SaaS delivery models, multi-country deployments, and large-scale R&D organizations.
Benefits
- Health benefits include three medical plan options, a dental plan option, and company credits toward eligible medical and dental premiums.
- Ericsson’s 401(k) plan provides a 3% automatic company contribution, matching contributions up to 4%, and access to a Stock Purchase Plan.
- Benefits include at least 15 vacation days, up to 3 personal days, 11 holidays, volunteer time, and 80 hours of sick time annually.
- The company provides up to 16 weeks of paid maternity leave and 6 weeks of paid parental or adoption leave.
- Additional benefits include financial wellness programs, educational assistance, matching gifts, recognition programs, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment coverage, and disability coverage.
- The position is based in Plano, United States, and includes an annual bonus opportunity; the posting does not state a specific work arrangement.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Ericsson
Ericsson is a publicly traded telecommunications vendor that builds mobile network infrastructure (RAN, core, OSS/BSS), cloud platforms, and managed services for communications providers and enterprises. Founded in 1876 and headquartered in Kista, Stockholm, it supplies 5G systems to operators worldwide and owns Vonage, expanding network APIs and enterprise communications offerings.