Architect

ACI Worldwide Inc. ( Nasdaq : ACIW ) is a payment systems company headquartered in Elkhorn Nebraska ACI develops a broad line of software focused on facilitating real-time electronic payments. These products and services are used globally by banks, financial intermediaries such as third-party electronic payment processors, payment associations, switch interchanges, merchants, corporations, and a wide range of transaction-generating endpoints, including automated teller machines ("ATM"), merchant point of sale ("POS") terminals, bank branches, mobile phones, tablet computers, corporations, and internet commerce sites

In short, we’re helping banks, merchants and billers capture rising real-time opportunities and volumes, all to meet the shifting needs of their consumers and business customers.

Our people are the core of our business and our team represents a globally diverse, passionate and dedicated group of thousands of individuals around the world who share a common commitment to making our customers successful by driving the future of payments. As a Technical Architect you can help make possibilities happen.

ACI Secure eCommerce delivers global payment gateway solutions for payment service providers, Independent eCommerce retailers, Third party acquirers and Independent software Vendors, enabling them to fully outsource payment transaction processing including cross border Payments and or integrate a gateway-to-gateway solutions which are PCI-compliant and provide access to more than 300 global acquirers delivering alternative payment methods such as eWallets, mobile payments and more, in multiple languages and all major currencies enabling payment providers to rapidly increase global revenues, reduce costs and risk, and accelerate market expansion by offering innovative channels.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Innovative Development: Drive the design and development of critical components, ensuring they align with the product's roadmap and business goals. Leverage your deep understanding of software engineering principles to create efficient, reliable, and elegant solutions.
- Technical Design: Contribute to the formulation of the solution design and technical strategies including the adoption and evaluation of new technologies, tools, and methodologies. Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation.
- Code Quality and Best Practices: Set and enforce high coding standards, best practices, and development processes. Lead code reviews, ensuring code quality, consistency, and adherence to architectural guidelines.
- Collaborative Excellence: Partner with product managers, partner teams, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, provide technical insights, and deliver solutions that exceed customer expectations.
- Technical Mentorship: Inspire a team of engineers, setting technical direction, providing mentorship, and promoting a culture of excellence in software development.
- Performance Optimization: Identify performance bottlenecks and optimize software components to deliver a fast and seamless user experience.
- Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, sharing knowledge and insights across the team.
- Collaborative Excellence: Partner with product managers, partner teams, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, provide technical insights, and deliver solutions that exceed customer expectations.

**Minimum Qualifications**
- 12+ years of software development experience in working on Java (Spring boot / MicroServices) with knowledge / experience in Multithreading, Concurrency, Collections and serialization with an ability to write secure defensive code.
- Solid expertise in writing Springboot MicroServices with a minimum of 5+ years of experience in architecting designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions.
- Strong experience with AZURE and or Amazon or GCP environment and providing solutions around performance, scalability and security
- Knowledge and or Experience in working with RDBMS (Oracle / Sybase / PostgreSQL / DB2) and working with complex SQL Queries
- Experience in Linux / Unix) environment, basic system Commands (UNIX )
- Familiarity with code management tools (GIT, Synergy, etc.) is desirable.
- Keep track of deliverables and individual work plans, manage budgets, resource tasks and be involved in Code Reviews.
- Willingness to mentor and evangelize design thinking to solve problems and take the product in new directions.
- Ability to collaborate with a global team and work with attention to detail & multitask under tight deadlines.Previous card payments or ecommerce domain experience with knowledge of Retail Banking, Omni Commerce Payment ecosystem & Card networks such as VISA, Mastercard, Discover etc.

**Highly Desired Qualifications**
- Previous experience in developing payments software solutions & Card networks such as VISA, MasterCard, Discover, AMEX, JCB, etc.
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