Architect, Payment & Fraud Systems - Full-Time (Hybrid)

Overview

Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Full Time

Skills

Systems Architect
Payments
Fraud prevention
Financial services
B2C
Mobile payment
AWS
Azure
GCP

Job Details

Architect, Payment & Fraud Systems

Location: Atlanta, GA/ Bellevue, WA

Hybrid - in the office at least 3 days a week

Duration: Fulltime

Job Description

The Systems Architect crafts scalable, secure, and high-performance payment and fraud management solutions. This role focuses on payment processing, in-house tokenization, fraud detection, and risk mitigation across e-commerce, in-store, and mobile channels. The architect defines and maintains architecture, technology standards, and best methodologies for real-time transaction processing, middleware, and databases, encompassing both in-house development and third-party integrations. They provide leadership to project teams, ensuring compliance with industry standards, regulatory requirements, and internal practices. Additionally, the architect evaluates and recommends emerging payment technologies, fraud prevention techniques, and sophisticated security measures to improve the overall platform's resilience and efficiency.

We are a team that encourages innovation and advocates an agile and open approach, truly working and playing in the Un-carrier way!

Job Responsibilities:

Help define software development processes and ensure alignment to security, compliance, and scalability methodologies for payment and fraud platforms.

Stay up to date with emerging payment technologies, as well as fraud detection strategies, and regulatory requirements to continuously contribute to improvement of platform capabilities.

Understand the business processes on assigned projects, particularly those related to payment acceptance, transaction routing, chargebacks, and fraud prevention.

Accomplish organizational goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; explore opportunities to contribute to job accomplishments.

Translate business requirements into technical requirements and assist other team members in implementing the solution.

Design and implement real-time transaction refinement solutions that ensure high availability, reliability, and security.

Provide architectural oversight for payment tokenization, fraud scoring models, and risk mitigation strategies across multiple channels.

Collaborate with engineering, product management, security, and compliance teams to ensure flawless integration of payment and fraud technologies.

Lead proof-of-concept (PoC) initiatives to assess new fraud detection techniques, machine learning models, or payment orchestration improvements.

Optimize payment processing workflows to improve customer experience while maintaining fraud controls and cost efficiency.

Ensure PCI compliance, data encryption, and secure API integrations for all payment and fraud-related systems.

Develop and maintain high-level architecture diagrams, user documentation, and standard process guidelines for enterprise-wide reference.

Provide direct technical evaluation of third-party products for inclusion in company solutions.

Experience:

7-10 years of experience:

  • In a business environment, preferably within payments, fraud prevention, financial services, or e-commerce. (Required)
  • As a software or systems architect, engineer, or programmer, with expertise in scalable, high-availability platforms. (Required)

5+ years of experience:

  • In payments architecture, tokenization, and transaction processing, including real-time authorization, settlement, and reconciliation workflows. (Preferred)
  • In fraud prevention, risk management systems, and security architecture, with knowledge of fraud scoring models, ML driven, fraud detection, and chargeback management. (Preferred)

4-7 years of experience:

  • In B2C online e-commerce systems architecture and design (Required)
  • With payment orchestration, gateway integrations, and acquirer connections, including experience with PCI DSS compliance and 3DS. (Preferred
  • Using architecture and design of mobile web applications, including responsive design, hybrid models, and secure mobile payment solutions such as Apple Pay, Google Pay, or QR-based payments. (Required)
  • Experience with cloud-based payment processing architectures, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, or serverless computing models. (Preferred)
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