Architect jobs in Spain

About the Role

SwiftXccess is looking for a Chief Systems Architect, who will provide strategic architecture leadership to project architects and your product partners on large and complex projects for merchant payment management solutions. You understand the business imperatives tied to these strategic projects. You provide technology leadership and are the technical expert on strategic projects, drive the release strategy and guide the delivery of strategic projects aligned to business strategy on innovative payment acceptance, integrated commerce management, powerful risk management and marketing tools. You maintain awareness of dependencies between projects and delivery vision, while ensuring engineering excellence to the five nines. You build the strategy for your teams to architect, design and deliver the next wave of enterprise fintech innovation.

What you'll do

• Drive the architecture for key cross team / cross product development projects (via architecture/design documents and developing code key modules).
• Establish software development patterns and best practices via examples and shipping code.
• Ensure that all relevant project teams follow a common set of principles and patterns and utilize a standard set of technology frameworks and libraries.
• Provide leadership across the architecture community to ensure solutions are built in alignment with platform principles and standards.
• Mentor and build world-class high-performing engineering and data science teams.
• Apply architecture best practices that help increase execution velocity.
• Develop architectures that are inherently secure, robust, scalable, modular, API-centric and global.
• Influence technology selection for the enterprise.
• Define deployment topology by working with peers across the technology organization.
• Optimize use of SwiftXccess’s Platforms & Solutions.

What you should bring along

• B.Tech / MS in Computer Science/Computer Engineering, Science, Mathematics
• A minimum of 15+ years of experience in architecture and development, 5+ years experience in building data driven frameworks and solutions
• Proven experience in building highly scalable, flexible and fault tolerant systems
• Proven knowledge of successful design, architecture and development using Hadoop with large data volumes
• Possesses a deep understanding of benefits/drawbacks of different integration patterns
• Continuous delivery and DevOps experience - infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, auditing and security implementation and practices.

Location

London, England or Remote and available during Business Hours; This role is open to remote work as our teams are distributed. We are looking for team members who perform well given a high level of independence and autonomy and will establish a cadence of on-time delivery with high-quality work.

SwiftXccess is an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to ensuring a safe and inclusive workplace by welcoming people of all backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. We encourage people from traditionally underrepresented groups to apply. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodations in the application process, please let us know.