Solution Architect

Valiant Technologies LLC; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Valiant Technologies LLC is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to provide hands-on architecture support for digital, enterprise, and AI programs spanning Digital, Restaurant, payments, and enterprise applications. This role emphasizes end-to-end solution design for web, mobile, kiosk, POS, and integrations across AWS.

The ideal candidate will translate complex requirements into scalable, secure architectures, align with enterprise standards, and lead architecture governance with

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in application architecture, solution architecture, enterprise applications, or software engineering.
• Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise application solutions.
• Strong experience with payment gateway implementations and payment application architecture.
• Experience designing solutions across Web, Mobile, Kiosk, and POS environments.
• Strong understanding of enterprise application integration and distributed systems.
• Strong experience with REST APIs, micro services, API gateways, and application integration patterns.
• Strong knowledge of AWS and cloud architecture.
• Experience working with third-party technology vendors and implementation partners.
• Experience with high-volume transactional applications.
• Understanding of payment transaction flows and payment gateway concepts.
• Experience with application security, authentication, authorization, encryption, and sensitive data handling.
• Strong understanding of non-functional requirements including performance, scalability, availability, resiliency, and observability.
• Strong architecture documentation and technical decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Design application solutions across Web, Mobile App, Kiosk, POS, backend services, and enterprise applications including payments, finance, and data services.
• Translate business and product requirements into scalable, secure, reliable, and maintainable architectures.
• Define boundaries, responsibilities, dependencies, APIs, data flows, and integration patterns.
• Evaluate and maintain architecture repository; identify opportunities to reduce technical debt.
• Develop POCs and prototypes to validate architecture decisions; ensure guest and operational experience consistency.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture principles and technology standards; drive governance and collaboration across teams.
• Design solutions using AWS and cloud-native technologies; ensure scalability, availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery objectives.
• Define observability requirements including logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting; optimize performance and cost.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Payment gateway design

REST APIs

Distributed systems

Security and data handling

Observability

Tools

AWS

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Solutions Architect to join the Digital, Enterprise & AI Technology team and provide hands on architecture support for a various strategic Programs which span across Digital, Restaurant, payments and Enterprise applications.

This Architect will work closely with Engineering, Product, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, POS, Finance, Operations, and external technology partners and will be responsible for end-to-end solution architecture across Digital and Enterprise initiatives. with deep experience ecommerce solutions across Web, Mobile, Kiosk, POS, enterprise applications, integrations, and AWS.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in designing digital and enterprise application solutions with deep experience ecommerce solutions across Web, Mobile, Kiosk, POS, enterprise applications, integrations, and AWS. The role requires someone who can understand complex application ecosystems, identify dependencies, design scalable solutions, and translate business requirements into practical technical architectures.

Key Responsibilities:

Design application solutions across Web, Mobile App, Kiosk, POS, backend services, and enterprise applications that include payments, finance, data services, Infra.

Translate business and product requirements into scalable, secure, reliable, and maintainable application architectures.

Define application boundaries, responsibilities, dependencies, APIs, data flows, and integration patterns.

Evaluate existing applications and maintain architecture repository updated.

Identify opportunities to simplify the application landscape and reduce technical debt.

Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture principles and technology standards.

Develop POCs and prototypes when required to validate architecture and technology decisions.

Ensure application changes support a consistent guest and operational experience.

Identify opportunities for reusable services and common application capabilities across channels.

Design application solutions using AWS and cloud-native technologies.

Ensure application architecture meets required scalability, availability, resiliency, performance, and disaster recovery objectives.

Evaluate AWS services and architectural patterns appropriate for application and payment workloads.

Define application observability requirements including logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting.

Consider performance and cost optimization as part of architecture decisions.

Ensure implementation teams remain aligned with the approved architecture.

Identify architecture risks, dependencies, and technical debt and drive them toward resolution.

Participate in architecture governance forums and collaborate with other architects across the organization.

Partner with Product, Engineering, POS, Digital, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Finance, and Operations teams.

Required Skills & Experience:

10+ years of experience in application architecture, solution architecture, enterprise applications, or software engineering.

Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise application solutions.

Strong experience with payment gateway implementations and payment application architecture.

Experience designing solutions across Web, Mobile, Kiosk, and POS environments.

Strong understanding of enterprise application integration and distributed systems.

Strong experience with REST APIs, micro services, API gateways, and application integration patterns.

Strong knowledge of AWS and cloud architecture.

Experience working with third-party technology vendors and implementation partners.

Experience with high-volume transactional applications.

Understanding of payment transaction flows and payment gateway concepts.

Experience with application security, authentication, authorization, encryption, and sensitive data handling.

Strong understanding of application NFRs including performance, scalability, availability, resiliency, and observability.

Strong architecture documentation and technical decision-making skills.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

Experience with restaurant, retail, hospitality, or other high-volume transaction environments.

Experience leading a payment gateway replacement or modernization program.

Experience with restaurant and enterprise application architecture.

Experience with AWS serverless and cloud-native architectures.

Experience with distributed tracing and modern observability platforms.

AWS or Enterprise Architecture certification is a plus.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.