AWS Cloud Architect

Tink; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A major payment technology company is seeking a Senior Consultant Architect to lead the architecture of a new payments processing platform. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in payments technology, expertise in AWS services, and strong communication skills. This hybrid position will involve guiding cross-functional teams to implement secure and scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Payments or Technology focused on transaction processing.
• Experience in designing secure, scalable, and highly available systems.
• Strong coding skills in Python, Golang, or C/C++.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop future OVN products and enhancements.
• Architect and implement AWS cloud solutions.
• Automate monitoring and logging with CloudWatch.

Skills

AWS services expertise

Strong communication skills

Containerization knowledge

Coding skills (Python, Golang)

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or higher

Tools

AWS CloudFormation

Terraform

Docker

Job description

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

About Open VisaNet

As Visa continues to innovate and evolve to meet ever changing needs of the global payments ecosystem, we are developing Open VisaNet (OVN), the next generation payments processing platform that will build on VisaNet’s success. This leverages modern architecture and development practices, core enhancements and the latest technologies to meet current and future requirements of our product teams, clients, and partners.

Responsibilities

Reporting to Sr. Director of Architecture, the Senior Consultant Architect is responsible for service and platform architecture for Open VisaNet’s core payment processing stack.

Specific Responsibilities Include

• Leverage payment processing expertise to ideate, design, and develop future OVN products and enhancements.
• Architect and implement highly available, scalable, cost effective and secure AWS cloud solutions.
• Apply AWS Well-Architected Framework principles to ensure best practices.
• Lead migration of on‑premises applications to AWS.
• Oversee deployment of serverless and microservices architectures.
• Implement AWS security best practices including IAM, KMS, WAF, and encryption.
• Ensure compliance with relevant standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, or ISO 27001.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using AWS CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy.
• Automate monitoring and logging with CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config.
• Conduct performance tuning and cost optimization of AWS workloads.
• Use AWS Trusted Advisor to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborate with product leadership to formulate and define requirements, facilitating the development of technical solutions across VisaNet systems.
• Develop detailed technical approach documents for projects, covering system and application development considering intersections with other initiatives and platforms.

Secondary Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise across the organization in the areas of AWS cloud architecture.
• Foster collaboration across development, infrastructure, operations, and security teams
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members to develop the most cost-effective, resilient, and secure solutions.
• Stay updated with new technologies and incorporate them into strategic planning and roadmap efforts

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree, Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or a PhD, OR relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Requires 8+ years of experience, including 3+ years in Payments or Technology focused on transaction processing services
• Experience in designing solutions for secure, scalable, and highly available systems is necessary.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills are required

Technical skills:

• Strong expertise in AWS services: EC2, EKS, S3, MSK, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudFront, Route 53, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB
• Proficiency in network design within AWS including load balancing, VPN, and Direct Connect
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools: CloudFormation, Terraform
• Strong knowledge of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS)
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools and automation frameworks
• Strong coding skills (Python, Golang, C/C++)
• Solid understanding of security, compliance, and governance in AWS
• Distributed system architecture and technologies, Kafka, gRPC, REST
• NoSQL and RDBMS experience

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.