Principal Architect — AI-Driven Payments Platform

ACI Worldwide in; Norcross (GA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

ACI Worldwide is seeking a Principal Architect (Finance) to shape architecture across multiple products and platforms, guiding cloud-native and AI-enabled practices. You will mentor architects and senior engineers, align architecture with enterprise direction, and drive strategic technology decisions that impact the payments ecosystem.

You will lead cross-product initiatives, set architectural standards, and collaborate with customers to translate requirements into long-term technical strategy.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of related experience with technical product architecture and/or product development
• Extensive experience applying design patterns to engineering problems
• Mentoring and growing architects and senior engineers across an organization
• Cross-product expertise in SaaS and cloud-native architecture
• Strong leadership with credible final calls on cross-product trade-offs

Responsibilities

• Provide architecture leadership across multiple products or platforms
• Mentor architects and senior engineers across the organization
• Oversee architectural roadmaps spanning product lines
• Drive compliance with architectural standards across initiatives
• Offer high-level analysis, design reviews, and performance guidance
• Define cross-product initiatives and align with project managers
• Research emerging technologies and evaluate patterns for adoption
• Promote re-use of techniques and technologies across teams
• Set standards for AI/ML and cloud-native architecture
• Define secure, scalable, and compliant architectures across the portfolio

Skills

Architecture leadership

Mentoring architects

Cloud-native architecture

AI/ML architecture

Multi-cloud design

Domain-driven design

Security & compliance architecture

Payments & financial systems knowledge

Strong communication

Cross-product thinking

Tools

ADR governance

Fitness functions

UML modeling

Job description

ACI Worldwide is seeking a Principal Architect (Finance) to shape architecture across multiple products and platforms, guiding cloud-native and AI-enabled practices. You will mentor architects and senior engineers, align architecture with enterprise direction, and drive strategic technology decisions that impact the payments ecosystem.

You will lead cross-product initiatives, set architectural standards, and collaborate with customers to translate requirements into long-term technical strategy.