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Job Title Senior Solution Architect - DPS
What does a Senior Solution Architect do at Fiserv? You will define and execute the multi-quarter architecture strategy and roadmap for observability and modernization across treasury and payments platforms (telemetry, tracing, logging, metrics, SRE practices, refactor/replatform plans).
Lead architecture reviews, set technical objectives, and ensure consistent engineering patterns across teams.
And provide expert guidance to engineering squads, influencing platform architecture without direct people management responsibilities.
What you will do: - Drive key modernization initiatives: re-platforming, microservices decomposition, containerization, service mesh adoption, serverless patterns, and API modernization.
- Evaluate and recommend architecture patterns balancing performance, resilience, cost efficiency, and security.
- Own architecture governance for payments observability and modernization.
- Partner with security and compliance teams to align designs with regulatory controls and payment-specific standards.
- Establish and maintain architecture standards, design guidelines, and reference patterns.
- Define and track reliability KPIs (SLOs/SLIs, MTTR, deployment frequency, latency, error rates).
- Lead post-incident architecture reviews and drive remediation efforts that reduce recurrence and improve system resilience.
- Champion continuous improvement cycles based on learnings, retrospectives, and data-driven insights.
What you will need to have: - 15+ years of professional experience, ideally with significant tenure in payment processing or treasury environments.
- Proven experience mentoring senior engineers/architects and influencing technical direction (no people-management responsibilities required).
- Deep technical expertise in distributed systems, payment flows (clearing/settlement, ACH, real-time rails), APIs, messaging, and data architecture.
- Hands-on experience with observability tooling and SRE practices (OpenTelemetry, PrometheGrafana, Jaeger/Zipkin, ELK/EFK, commercial APMs).
- Track record of leading modernization efforts (cloud migrations, microservices, containerization, CI/CD automation) in regulated, high-availability payment environments.
- Strong awareness of payment security and regulatory frameworks (PCI-DSS; knowledge of ISO 20022, PSD2, or real-time rails a plus).
- Experience with AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure; event streaming platforms like Kafka; service mesh technologies (Istio/Linkerd); and IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Excellent communicator able to articulate complex technical trade-offs and influence senior stakeholders.
How you will work: - This role is on-site Monday through Friday. Fiserv considers in-person collaboration to be an essential part of this role as in-person office experiences help you with your overall onboarding experience and leads to stronger productivity.
- You must currently possess valid and unrestricted U.S. work authorization to be considered for this role.
- This is a full-time, direct-hire position, and no contract options for unsolicited agency submissions will be considered.
- All offers of employment are contingent on standard background checks. Fiserv and certain of its affiliated companies are federal, state, and/or local government contractors. Should this position support a Federal Government contract, now or in the future, the successful candidate will be subject to a background check conducted by the U.S. Government to determine eligibility and suitability for federal contract employment for public trust or sensitive positions. Positions that support state and/or local contracts also may require additional background checks to determine eligibility and suitability.
Salary Range $186,000.00 - $285,600.00
These pay ranges apply to employees in New Jersey and New York. Pay ranges for employees in other states may differ.
It is unlawful to discriminate against a prospective employee due to the individual's status as a veteran.
For incentive eligible associates, the successful candidate is eligible for an annual incentive opportunity which may be delivered as a mix of cash bonus and equity awards in the Company's sole discretion.
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- Complete the step-by-step profile and attach your resume (either is acceptable, both are preferable).
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