AWS Technical / Cloud Architect with Payments Experience

Tata Consultancy Services; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services is seeking an AWS Technical / Cloud Architect with Payments Experience. The role requires 10+ years’ experience in cloud and payments domains, with strong Java/Spring and cloud-native skills.

You will lead architecture and migration efforts for complex payment platforms, ensuring scalability, security, and compliance across enterprise environments. This role involves working with OpenShift, AWS, and modern DevSecOps practices.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture and payments domains.
• Proficient in AWS services and enterprise integration patterns.
• Strong understanding of payment rails and ISO 20022 messaging.

Responsibilities

• Lead AWS architecture and migration planning for payments modernization.
• Design cloud-native solutions with microservices, APIs, and event-driven patterns.
• Define target-state AWS architecture including landing zone, networking, and security.
• Drive DevSecOps practices, CI/CD, IaC, and automated testing.
• Oversee migration waves with dependency-based sequencing and roadmaps.
• Collaborate with onshore and offshore teams for architecture reviews and design discussions.
• Mentor teams on technical decisions and best practices across platforms.

Skills

Java

Spring MVC

Spring Boot

Rest API

microservices

Kafka

Cloud

Kubernetes

Agile

CI/CD

Payments experience

ISO 20022

Fed wire / Swift knowledge

Tools

OpenShift

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

JBoss

Oracle DB

Job description

Job Description

AWS Technical / Cloud Architect with Payments Experience

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Java, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Rest API, microservices, Kafka, Cloud, Kubernetes.

Agile concepts, CI/CD with Payments exposer like ISO, Fed wire, Swift, MT message Knowledge

10+ years’ experience

Payments Experience

Payment domain expertise is preferred and can significantly enhance opportunities across Global Transaction Services, and Payments Modernization programs.

• Experience with Wire, ACH, and Real-Time Payments
• Knowledge of ISO 20022 messaging standards
• Understanding of payment initiation, processing, settlement, reconciliation, and exception management
• Experience with high-volume and mission-critical transaction-processing platforms
• Exposure to payment modernization and cloud-transformation initiatives
• Knowledge of event-driven payment-processing architectures
• Understanding of banking security, regulatory, resiliency, and compliance requirements

Roles & Responsibilities

• 10+ years of experience in AWS services, including EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS, EKS, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and CloudWatch, Java, Sprint boot, Microservices, Rest API, Kafka.
• Experiences working with payments rails/products, such as FedWire, Chips, TCH, SEPA, Wires, ACH, Real Time Payments, SWIFT, ISO etc.
• Hands-on experience with AI models and tools, such as Copilot, Claude, etc a plus
• Involved in Enterprise cloud architecture and solution design
• Hands on in Java 25 and Spring Boot 4.1+,Angular 22, Python/Node.js
• Microservices and event-driven architecture, Oracle Database and cloud database migration,JBoss Application Server
• OpenShift Platform and legacy VM-based deployments, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, and EKS
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CloudFormationCI/CD using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps
• REST APIs and enterprise integration patterns
• Kafka, MQ, and enterprise messaging platforms
• AWS security, IAM, VPC, networking, encryption, secrets management, and compliance
• Monitoring and observability using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana
• Application modernization and cloud migration patterns
• Cloud performance, scalability, resiliency, disaster recovery, and cost optimization
• DevSecOps, platform engineering, and automated deployment practices
• Lead the discovery and assessment of applications deployed across legacy V M-based infrastructure and OpenShift environments.
• Analyze the application inventory, current architecture, technology stack, infrastructure footprint, business criticality, non-functional requirements, and technical debt.
• Map application dependencies, data flows, interfaces, APIs, messaging platforms, and upstream and downstream integrations.
• Assess application, infrastructure, database, security, compliance, and operational readiness for migration to AWS.
• Categorize applications based on business criticality, cloud readiness, migration complexity, dependencies, risks, and modernization requirements.
• Evaluate legacy and OpenShift-based applications and recommend appropriate rehost, replatform, refactor, or re-architect migration strategies.
• Define target‑state AWS architecture covering landing zone, networking, compute, containers, databases, integrations, security, observability, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Design cloud‑native solutions using microservices, APIs, event‑driven architectures, containers, serverless technologies, and suitable AWS‑managed services.
• Develop application modernization strategies, including application decomposition, API enablement, containerization, and migration from legacy technologies.
• Define Oracle database and data‑migration strategies covering sequencing, validation, reconciliation, cutover, data integrity, and rollback requirements.
• Develop application migration waves, dependency‑based sequencing, implementation roadmaps, milestones, timelines, and resource requirements.
• Establish cloud security, IAM, encryption, network security, governance, compliance controls, architecture guardrails, and risk‑mitigation recommendations.
• Define DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure‑as‑Code, automated testing, security scanning, release management, monitoring, and platform‑operations models.
• Prepare high‑level estimates for assessment, migration, modernization, testing, deployment, transition, cloud costs, and resource requirements.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical design discussions, proposal development, executive presentations, stakeholder collaboration, and technical mentoring across onshore and offshore teams.

Salary Range- $110,000-$125,000 a year