Software Engineering FTM Solution Architect Professional Austin, US

Avature; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm is seeking an FTM Solution Architect to join their Austin team. The role focuses on building comprehensive payment solutions, engaging with clients to ensure satisfaction and quality in service delivery. The successful candidate will interact with various stakeholders, driving impactful outcomes through expert guidance in technology and architecture.

Benefits

Healthcare benefits

401(k) plan

Generous paid time off

Continuous training resources

Qualifications

• 5+ years in designing, implementing payment solutions.
• Fluent in Java and familiar with financial messaging.
• Experience with cloud-based payment integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical guidance and discovery discussions with clients.
• Design solutions based on client requirements for payment processing.
• Establish and maintain relationships with various stakeholders.

Skills

Java

ESQL

XML

Workflow Orchestration

Financial Messaging

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School Diploma/GED

Tools

IBM FTM

WebSphere

OpenShift

Job description

Joining the IBM Technology Expert Labs teams means you'll have a career delivering world-class services for our clients. As the ultimate expert in IBM payment products, you'll bring together all the necessary technology and services to help customers solve their most challenging payment problems. Working in IBM Technology Expert Labs means accelerating the time to value confidently and ensuring speed and insight while our clients focus on what they do best—running and growing their business.

Excellent onboarding and industry-leading learning culture will set you up for a positive impact, whilst ongoing development will advance your career. Our culture is collaborative and experiential. As part of a team, you will be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators—always willing to help and be helped—as you apply passion to work that will positively impact the world around us.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Solution Architect you'll be a pivotal team member who connects the client's technical functional and implementation requirements with a solution design and proposal for payments such as check processing, digital payments, RTP, Zelle, TCH, NACHA, Swift, etc. You'll work closely with clients and sellers to build solutions based on the meeting the client's business outcomes and known best practices for the technology and industry. In this fast-paced role, you'll design, and construct build work breakdown structure leading to the rough order of magnitude leading to the price and statement of work. A successful Solution Architect will demonstrate a natural bias towards self-motivation and navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions that ensure world class delivery.

If you are passionate about success with both your career and solving clients' business challenges, this role is for you. To help achieve this win-win outcome, a 'day-in-the-life' of this opportunity may include, but not be limited to…

•End-to-End Technical Guidance: Providing expert end-to-end technical guidance to lead discovery discussions with prospective clients, assess architecture needs for payment related projects, work with technical leads and sellers to create proposals.

•Finding the Best Architectural Outcomes: Leading client workshops around payments; influencing client stakeholders at all levels to find the best architectural outcomes that align to business and technology payment strategies and initiatives into actionable roadmaps with clear direction on execution to ensure business value and ROI.

•Maintaining Solution Review Boards: Developing and contributing to the payment solution review boards for proposals including oversight for technology assurance, quality and risk evaluation

•Building Successful Relationships: Establishing and maintaining personal relationship at all levels – from engineers to CIOs – with experience of navigating challenging debate to reach healthy resolutions.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Experience:

• Languages: Java, ESQL, XML, XSD, XSTL
• Integrated Development Tools:ATOM, RAD, Eclipse, Visual Studio, XCode & Android Studio
• Operating Systems:UNIX, AIX, Linux, RedHat OpenShift Workflow Orchestration & Transformation platforms: IBM FTM, IBM App Connect, HCL Transformation Extender, etc.
• Middleware & Security: IBM WebSphere, IBM Liberty, Weblogic, Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, VISIBroker, IBM MQ, Active MQ, Open SAML, Microsoft Active Directory, Lotus Domino LDAP, Entrust Truepass
• Products: IBM FTM, Sterling MFT,IBM Infosphere CDC, PEG

Preferred technical and professional experience

• This role performs direct customer services in support of SOA-based and cloud-based Payments Integration systems. The duties of this role will include design and implementation of solutions based on customer requirements relating to Payment’s processing using products in the IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) family.
• The candidate should have strong experience in designing, implementing, and integrating applications for financial messaging ideally based on IBM's FTM product family. Experience with an EAI, Message Hub, SOA and/or Microservices environment is also beneficial. The candidate should have 5+ years’ experience in one of these areas.
• The candidate should be skilled with IBM App Connect Enterprise Services and Liberty and be fluent in Java development and Financial Messaging.
• The candidate should have at least 5+ years of experience in DevOps pipeline development in legacy WebSphere environments and private or public cloud environments. The candidate should have multiple years of experience in development and deploying of containerized, cloud-based, applications in private or public cloud environments, experience with OpenShift is desired.
• The candidate may also be required to participate in pre-sales activities for current and potential IBM Clients and help cultivate the trusted relationship IBM seeks with all customers

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
• Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

Job Title

FTM Solution Architect

Date posted

13-Jun-2025

Job ID

40273

City / Township / Village

Austin

State / Province

Texas

Country

United States

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Software Engineering

Employment type

Regular

Contract type

Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year

144,000.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

248,000.00

Position type

Professional

Some travel may be required based on business demand

Company

(0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?