Senior Software Architect - Payments & Microservices Leader

Truist; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Disability

AD&D

401k

Vacation

Sick days

Paid holidays

Pension plan

RSUs

Deferred compensation

Job summary

Truist is seeking an experienced software architect to shape the architecture and delivery of high impact payment systems. You will drive design across large initiatives, set technical direction, and mentor engineers while partnering with product and leadership to meet divisional goals.

The role emphasizes scalable, secure solutions, modern practices, and ongoing evaluation of new technologies to influence roadmaps and platform capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of 12 years of professional experience in software development and architecture.
• Expert proficiency in multiple programming languages, software architecture, and design principles.
• Deep understanding of software development lifecycle, security, testing, and deployment practices.

Responsibilities

• Shapes and drives the architecture and delivery of high impact software solutions that directly support divisional strategy and results.
• Defines and recommends software architecture and engineering approaches for complex, high impact initiatives within the division.
• Pioneers and promotes advanced software engineering standards, practices, and governance mechanisms.
• Partners with senior technology leadership, product, and architecture teams to inform technology strategy with deep technical insight.
• Leads the end to end technical design and implementation of scalable, secure, and highly available software solutions.
• Resolves the most challenging technical issues in the domain, designing innovative architectures and performance, reliability, and scalability improvements.
• Provides technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship to engineers and architects across teams.
• Evaluates emerging technologies and research, building prototypes and novel solution approaches.
• Contributes to long term technical roadmaps and investment decisions for the domain.
• Technically leads large, complex initiatives as an individual contributor across multiple teams.

Skills

Java

Software architecture

Cloud AWS

Security

Education

Bachelor’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Kafka

Aurora PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

MQ

Job description

Truist is seeking an experienced software architect to shape the architecture and delivery of high impact payment systems. You will drive design across large initiatives, set technical direction, and mentor engineers while partnering with product and leadership to meet divisional goals.

The role emphasizes scalable, secure solutions, modern practices, and ongoing evaluation of new technologies to influence roadmaps and platform capabilities.