Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for... success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.

Essential Duties:
• Lead Cloud based SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS solution architecture efforts
• Contribute code to enhance development and operational pipelines
• Provide architecture and consulting services to solution teams
• Collaborate with solution teams on design and integration efforts
• Participate in advancing architecture discipline across the enterprise
• Evaluate Cloud platform services
• Conduct product evaluation and provide recommendations
• Contribute to the development of shared services and DevOps pipeline where needed
• Perform code quality and architecture analysis and provide improvement recommendations
• Define Target Architecture and Operational Models as needed
• Analyze legacy systems and provide Target and Transition Architecture in compliance with Enterprise Architecture TAM and reference models
• Work with Compliance and Security teams to integrate their requirements into Architecture practices
• Establish functional and non-functional requirements and test cases and plans
• Participate and advance automation efforts across the Enterprise
• Create Reference Architecture and Building Blocks
• Responsible for creating, maintaining, and adoption of technology standards

Other Duties:
• Create a unified strategy for GCP, AWS and Azure cloud transformation governance, automation, security, implementation, and operations
• Develop target cloud solution architecture patterns and system requirements, analyze existing application and IT deployments, propose requirements and designs, craft an automation approach, drive implementation
• Design, prototype and deliver cloud-native solutions, leverage platform rich services offering
• Participate and drive gathering of technical requirements for deployment through a variety of techniques (e.g., facilitated workshops, work sessions for major initiatives; performs technical analysis with the team and design cloud best practices
• Prepare cloud guidance, standards, requirements, design, and ensure that the end product is aligned to the cloud strategy and overall enterprise architecture standards
• Hands-on experience designing, building, maintaining, and securing cloud microservices, IaaS and PaaS solutions for highly available business critical cloud-based systems
• Hands-on experience automating configuration management and deploying PaaS solutions in private and public cloud using IaC tools
• Drive cloud security and compliance requirements into the cloud architecture framework, including for the data integration points with on-premise and other cloud systems
• Present technical concepts and specific solutions to internal audiences of varying technical capabilities in a clear, concise and easily understood manner
• Define and document the cloud reference architecture and drive its implementation across all the cloud components aligning with Enterprise Architecture
• Be the evangelist of cloud architecture and influence technical leaders to adhere to the architectural framework and its principles
• Champion and advocate adoption of best design practices and ensure cloud products are built consistently aligned to the expressed cloud architecture
• Provide reference implementations and sample repositories that can be utilized across the enterprise
• Possess:
• Working knowledge with implementing and managing Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
• Working knowledge in container and container management technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, DC/OS)
• Working knowledge in SQL and NoSQL technologies
• Working knowledge of AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform IaaS and PaaS technologies and solution implementation patterns
• Experience with data management and data integration technologies (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, other)
• Experience with API Management and API Gateway and Developer Portal solutions
• Maintain and advance deep technical skills and knowledge, keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights, and share within the technical community

Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree required in Computer Science or Engineering, Master's Degree preferred
• 7+ years of experience in designing and driving the implementation of large-scale commercial enterprise-class cloud software, using cloud principles and architectural patterns
• Avid technologist, with deep expertise in AWS, GCP, Azure cloud, and/or other public/private/hybrid cloud architecture domains
• Strong foundational infrastructure skills, including architecture principles and design patterns of distributed systems in private and public cloud
• Proficiency in modern software architecture, scalability, reliability and in RESTful APIs and how they are used in the cloud
• Experience evaluating existing application design and making recommendations for enhancing applications to leverage cloud technology and services
• Experience having successfully guided the refactoring of a large monolithic application into multiple, micro-services
• Working experience with modern development and delivery methodologies such as Agile and CI/CD and ability to apply these processes fit for purpose
• Strong aptitude for collaboration and ability to lead and influence a team of leaders, as well as mentor engineers
• Experience and understanding of large scale infrastructure deployments in enterprise-wide environments required
• Excellent active listening skills that enable you to understand the goals and challenges to craft meaningful solutions
• Capable of understanding and solving complex technical concepts
• Demonstrated collaboration skills along with the ability to influence without authority

Preferred Qualifications:
• Working experience developing solutions with cloud orchestration tools
Atlanta GA USA

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