Technical Architect – Payments

Wipro Technologies

Technical Architect (Full Stack Engineer) – Payments

Wipro is a well-led organisation where innovation is our differentiator. We ranked as a “Top Employer” as part of the Top Employer Institute 2023 annual listings. We were assessed on several key HR practices including Diversity and Inclusion and Gender . This is accompanied by achieving solid business growth in the last ten quarters against a backdrop of high inflation and geopolitical turmoil.

We are Risk and Compliance subject matter experts and advice provision and understand the clients’ business from an end to end perspective – relevant lines of business, products, processes, data used, systems, applications and infrastructure – all of the relevant technology landscape – including any third party suppliers and providers that the business is dependent on provision of analytical and problem solving; think ‘out of the box’ for improvements.

Purpose of the role

The vision of Payments Orchestration Layer (POL) is to introduce lean and reusable payment orchestration engine that will route payments from initiation through security to a successful execution. It will remove bespoke and duplicate code and insert effective touch points with specialized applications needed for the payment journey (customer channel / industry gateway, sanctions screening, fraud and money laundering prevention, generation of payments instructions, submission to payment processors, bookkeeping). It will be an enabler to deliver new product features at high speed, low cost and with the desired quality.

The program is looking for configuring the built Microservices as part of the Business Outcomes we plan to deliver. This is with the vision to make our elevated architecture capable of satisfying growing need of partners and market scheme demands for Faster Deliveries

This role will carry out some or all of the following activities:

• The role usually stands at the near top of this technical career track.
• You will be expected to provide technical advice to senior management when making major decisions.
• Required to solve complex problems that have a business critical impact, and to form task forces that are assigned to address one-off issues.
• Contribute to the wider technology community through conference presentations, white papers,

Your Responsibilities:

As the Technical Architect you will:

• Participate the design and development for the application of POL.
• Support transforming the current POL applications and solution aligning with our elevated Architecture.
• Drive the delivery of the platform to include DevOps, infrastructure and supporting components (e.g. Kafka, Cockroach DB)
• Provides analysis and solutions to technical and business issues.
• Maintain awareness of business and technology strategies and implements technical alternatives and strategies to gain competitive advantage.
• Assist in the development of the strategic technical architecture.
• Provides technical solutions to business problems, technical leadership and direction to management and remain current on technical and professional advances and business strategies regarding area of responsibility.
• Serve as expert in area of responsibility, identifies process improvements and problem prevention, and advises department and management of relevant information as appropriate.
• Resolve architectural or development blockers raised
• Partner with DevOps team to enable automated infrastructure delivery, DevSecOps value streams are executed and CI /CD pipelines to deploy services.
• Lead one or more technical business application areas and projects of high complexity or criticality.
• Controls critical cross-functional projects, related project risk and resulting impact on business and strategic plans.
• Initiate analysis for complex problems and issues, determine technical alternatives, analyze vendor solutions and negotiate contracts, and develop appropriate standards for technology application.
• Provide technical leadership and consultation to project team members as directed by the project manager.
• Initiate and conduct feasibility studies of new and modified operational procedures.
• For large systems, prepare cost/benefit analyses, functional and detail specifications.
• Provide direct guidance in planning, designing, programming, documentation and implementation of the systems.
• Perform reviews of new and existing systems to ensure operational integrity and accomplishment of stated objectives.
• Design, code, test, debug and document programs as required.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture and senior management to define cloud strategy and perform PoC on new technologies.
• Provide architecture guidance to developers based on best practices and in alignment with global standards
• Ensuring compliance with all relevant controls and standards
• Keep up-to-date and have expertise on current tools, technologies and areas like cyber security and regulations pertaining to aspects like data privacy, consent, data residency etc. that are applicable
• Ensure service resilience, service sustainability and recovery time objectives are met for all the software solutions delivered

Mandatory Skills/Experience

This role will require knowledge of how to work with the tools and how to provision pipelines for consumption.

• Proven and demonstrable experience as an API architect,
• Strong experience in API designing and creating architectural artefacts such as gap analysis, low level designs, data models etc.
• Engineering background in back-end Java application development, application security and authentication development, springboot, cache and middleware
• Extensive background in working on Kubernetes and Kafka, including commitment to the Kafka open source project
• Deep understanding of highly available and resilient assets supporting a financial institution
• Solid experience with an FI in payments
• Experience working with DevOps tooling (Jenkins/Ansible/Nexus etc)
• Solid knowledge on infrastructure like Linux OS, networking, storage, load-balancer, etc.
• Expertise in JVM tuning and diagnostic for application troubleshooting and performance-optimization
• Expertise in distributed system design like microservices, Springboot.
• Expertise in docker, k8s, service mesh
• Expertise in monitoring and observability technologies like Appdynamics, Splunk, Jaeger, Kiali, Open Telemetry.
• Expertise in cloud and DevOps, familiar to network (VPC) and firewall on cloud, iAM, cloud costing
• Expert-level SQL coding abilities is preferred.
• Knowledge in payments business will be an added advantage.
• Ability to work independently and think out of the box.
• The passion and ability to lead/motivate and develop technologist, including mentoring and coaching.
• Superior listening skills, ability to learn quickly, and willing to accept accountability for company and individual success.
• Extensive critical thinking skills for problem identification and solution recommendation.
• Exceptional team player that can lead others in demonstrating initiative and sound business judgment and is interested in expanding skills and growing professionally.
• Highly flexible, set priorities and meet deadlines in a changing environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, ability to negotiate, resolve conflicts and influence technical choices relating to business, development and architectural requirements.

Your Benefits:

As the Full Stack Engineer you will receive a competitive salary, a generous benefits package and training & development in areas to help you improve.

Equal Opportunities

Wipro is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and makes all employment and employment-related decisions without regard to a person’s race, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by applicable law.

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