Overview
On Site
$150000
Full Time
50% Travel
Skills
Swift
VISA
NIST ISO
Job Details
Full Time Role
Location : McLean, VA.
Salary : $150-160K/Annum + Benefits
Job Description :
We are seeking a seasoned Payment Network Risk Technology Architect to lead the design and implementation of secure, scalable, and resilient technology solutions across our global payment infrastructure. This role will focus on identifying, assessing, and mitigating technology and operational risks associated with payment networks, including real-time payments, card schemes, ACH, and cross-border systems. The architect will collaborate with cybersecurity, risk management, and engineering teams to embed robust controls, ensure regulatory compliance, and maintain high availability and integrity of critical payment services. The ideal candidate has deep experience in payment systems architecture, risk modeling, and security frameworks, and can translate complex risk requirements into actionable technology strategies.
- Payment network protocols: SWIFT, ISO 20022, SEPA, ACH, Fedwire, RTP, CHIPS
- Card network integration: Visa, Mastercard, Amex, UnionPay
- Real-time and cross-border payment systems
- Settlement and clearing systems architecture
- Enterprise and solution architecture frameworks: TOGAF, Zachman
- Designing high-availability, fault-tolerant systems
- Microservices architecture and API-based integration
- Event-driven and message-based architectures (e.g., Kafka, MQ)
- Payment system risk modeling and threat analysis
- Security frameworks: NIST, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS
- Identity and access management (IAM), tokenization, encryption
- Fraud detection systems integration
- Resilience and failover design for payment networks
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