Cloud Architect

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.

Global Payments' Platform team is seeking a Cloud Solution Architect to create and implement a strategy to move our merchant acquiring technology services to industry-leading cloud platforms.

• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to create a unified strategy for GCP and Azure cloud transformation governance, automation, security, implementation, and operations

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture teams to 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 GCP and Azure cloud-native solutions, leverage platform rich service offerings

• Design, prototype, and implement cloud landing zones for Monetary Systems' applications

• 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

• Develop and implement strategies for moving on-premise software to the cloud

• Experience designing, building, maintaining, and securing cloud microservices, IaaS and PaaS solutions for highly available business critical cloud-based systems

• Experience automating configuration management and deploying PaaS solutions in private and public cloud using any of the following IaC tools: Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Docker, etc.

• 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

• Be the evangelist of cloud architecture and influence BTS leaders to adhere to the architectural framework and its principles

• Champion and the advocate of 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 by BTS

• Maintain and advance deep technical skills and knowledge, keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights, and share within the technical community

Minimum 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 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

• Working experience developing solutions with cloud orchestration tools

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform IaaS and PaaS technologies and solution implementation patterns

• 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

• Track record of innovation, results, and ability to collaborate and affect change across functions

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

• 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 either SQL (Oracle, SQL Server, other) or NoSQL (Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, Cloudera Impala, Dynamo, Redis, other)

• Demonstrates a strong work ethic, able to multi-task and ability to work well under pressure

• Written and verbal communication skills, including group leadership and executive presentations

• Working knowledge of the payment processing industry

• Experience with data management and data integration technologies (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, other) is required.

Benefits:
Global Payments offers a comprehensive benefits package to all of our team members, including medical, dental and vision care, EAP programs, paid time off, recognition programs, retirement and investment options, charitable gift matching programs, and worldwide days of service. To learn more, review our Benefits page at: https://jobs.globalpayments.com/en/why-global-payments/benefits/

This role is eligible to be primarily remote within the United States. However, candidates must reside within a reasonable commuting distance to one of our office locations, as occasional on-site presence may be required for team meetings, training sessions, or company events.

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At this time, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work for any employer in the United States (or (applicable country) on a full-time basis without the need for current or future immigration sponsorship.

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