Principal Solution Architect (Fintech)

Location: Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Company

hirify.global provides technology and solutions that power the global economy, with a focus on fintech and payments.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end solution architecture for complex, business-critical payment capabilities across products, services, channels, and integration points.
• Define current, target, and transition architectures, maintain technology roadmaps, and guide platform modernisation and investment decisions.
• Translate business, product, regulatory, security, and operational needs into architecture principles, solution designs, and delivery guidance.
• Lead architecture governance through solution proposals, architecture decisions, interface specifications, and design reviews.
• Define service responsibilities and integration patterns for APIs, event-driven messaging, and batch processing while ensuring resilience, availability, performance, scalability, observability, security, and backward compatibility.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders and delivery teams, support strategic client engagements and implementations, resolve architectural deviations, and mentor architects and senior engineers.

Requirements

• Extensive experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale software platforms across the full development lifecycle, from iterative delivery through production deployment.
• Proven experience leading architecture for complex, distributed, microservices-based systems across multiple teams and organisational boundaries.
• Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end solution architecture, target-state roadmaps, architecture governance, and major technical decisions.
• Deep knowledge of API design, event-driven architecture, domain-driven design, service decomposition, and systems integration.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, including data consistency, idempotency, fault tolerance, circuit breaking, asynchronous processing, and backward-compatible change.
• Strong technical expertise in Java, JVM-based enterprise platforms, relational databases such as Oracle or PostgreSQL, and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience designing secure, resilient, highly available, scalable, observable, and operationally manageable systems for business-critical environments.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders, resolve competing priorities, explain complex architecture to technical and non-technical audiences, and lead several concurrent initiatives.
• Experience mentoring architects, technical leads, and engineering teams, with sound judgement in evaluating business value, risk, cost, delivery impact, and maintainability.
• Working knowledge of Agile delivery at scale and of organisations using both iterative and plan-driven delivery models.

Nice to have

• Deep knowledge of financial services and payments, including payment orchestration, clearing and settlement, payment networks, SWIFT, and ISO 20022.
• Experience modernising large payment platforms and defining responsibilities across payment initiation, payment execution, and integration services.
• Experience with event streaming, event sourcing, CQRS, workflow modelling, and API specifications using Kafka, BPMN, OpenAPI, or YAML.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and public, private, or hybrid cloud environments.
• Knowledge of relational, NoSQL, and horizontally scalable distributed data platforms.
• Experience creating context, container, sequence, domain, and deployment architecture diagrams.
• Understanding of infrastructure automation, contract testing, end-to-end testing across products, distributed tracing, and automated provisioning.
• Broad knowledge of networking, compute, storage, databases, security, middleware, identity, and systems management.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work environment with opportunities to influence the future of fintech.
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities.
• Opportunities to contribute to communities.
• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Equal opportunity employment environment.