Global KYC Senior Architect, Solution Engineering (Hybrid)
Western Union2 days ago
Atlanta, GA, USA or Austin, TX, USASenior
Base Salary
$165k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, and evolution of global KYC and regulatory compliance platforms.
- Design secure, scalable, resilient, fault-tolerant, and observable distributed systems with redundancy, failover, graceful degradation, and rapid recovery.
- Lead proof-of-concept initiatives and make strategic architecture and technology decisions.
- Drive cloud adoption, legacy modernization, re-platforming, re-architecting, and incremental migration initiatives.
- Design microservices-based, API-first, event-driven solutions using Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, AWS, and Kafka.
- Establish standards for service boundaries, API governance, event orchestration, resilience, observability, data lineage, traceability, and audit readiness.
- Create architecture artifacts, solution designs, process flows, system interaction diagrams, technology roadmaps, and executive-level technical presentations.
- Partner with product, engineering, compliance, business, architecture, and vendor stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
- Lead architecture reviews and design governance while mentoring engineering teams on best practices, CI/CD, production readiness, and operational excellence.
- Use AI-assisted development, automation, and cloud-native practices to improve engineering productivity and delivery quality.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, or large-scale application design.
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native applications and microservices with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and modern software engineering practices.
- At least 5 years of experience designing and deploying solutions on AWS or another major cloud platform.
- At least 2 years of experience leading or participating in proof-of-concept initiatives.
- At least 4 years of experience with enterprise platforms, vendor solutions, third-party APIs, distributed ecosystems, microservices architectures, API-first solutions, event-driven architectures, and enterprise integration patterns.
- At least 4 years of experience designing highly available, resilient, observable, and scalable distributed systems.
- At least 3 years of experience establishing observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational excellence practices.
- At least 4 years of experience with AWS services, Kafka, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, Site Reliability Engineering, and cloud-native operational tooling.
- At least 4 years of experience creating architecture documentation, solution designs, roadmaps, process flows, system interaction diagrams, and executive presentations.
- At least 4 years of hands-on experience with enterprise technologies such as Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Splunk, Dynatrace, CloudWatch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Snowflake.
- At least 1 year of experience using AI-assisted engineering tools for requirements analysis and architecture decisions.
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work full-time in the United States.
- Preferred qualifications include a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, or a related field; regulated-industry experience; modernization and cloud migration leadership; platform engineering, domain-driven design, event streaming, resilience engineering, and AI-augmented development knowledge; and experience mentoring engineers and influencing enterprise standards.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- Tuition assistance program.
- Employee discount program.
- Parental leave.
- 401K plan.
- Short-term incentives and access to multiple health insurance options, accident insurance, and development platforms.
- Hybrid work arrangement with a minimum expectation of three days per week in the office in Austin, Texas, or Atlanta, Georgia.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
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.