Principal - IT Architecture

Overview: **Report to**: Head of Architecture & Strategic Planning / Global Head of Execution + Payments Technology **Seniority Level**: Senior **Department**:StoneX Global Payments **Location**:India (Pune / Bangalore) **Geographic coverage**:APAC **Employment Type**:Full time, permanent employment **About the Company**: **Job Posting** StoneX Global Payments is looking for a Principal Architect to build and lead our APAC Architecture practice with a goal of delivering and expanding a high performing, scalable, durable, and resilient digital execution and payments platform. You will need to work closely with the managers, engineering teams, and Product leaders. You must have technical and functional domain knowledge to ensure that we build compelling, customer-oriented solutions in an iterative value methodology. You must be forward thinking to keep the technology modern and up to date so we can continue to deliver high value to our clients. Success in the role requires an innovative mind, a proven track record of delivering next-generation software and data products, rigorous analytical skills, and a passion for creating market-leading software in the financial industry. **Responsibilities**: **Primary Responsibilities**: - Owns software architecture vision, principles, and technology standards across the organization, working closely with engineering leadership and product management to craft roadmaps and success criteria - Develops and leads the architectural model for a unit, directs and leads teams to ensure a target architecture for the division. When designing suitable architectural solutions the quality of architectural artifacts is ensured and business scenarios encouraged - Creates architecture descriptions artifacts and guidelines for an area of the organisaction / flow, ensures alignment to the wider target architecture - Architecture input to development teams - Evaluate and recommend toolsets and standardize use of third-party components, libraries - Facilitate developers to understand business and functional requirements - Enable reusable components and share across enterprise - Create and maintain As-Is and To-Be system maps - Devises technology and architecture solutions that propel engineering excellence across the organization, simplify otherwise complex problems, and address the "-ilities" (portability, usability, maintainability, scalability, recoverability, availability, extensibility, and security) - Extends influence across the organization, leading distributed teams to make strong day-to-day architecture decisions independently through documentation, mentorship, and training - Makes pragmatic, organized, and balanced technical decisions in areas such as build vs. buy, now vs. later, and refactor vs. rebuild - Builds robust system diagrams, develops a detailed understanding of key aspects current software state, and engages engineers at a code and design level - Drives engineering architecture definition using multi-disciplinary knowledge, including in cloud engineering, middleware engineering, data engineering, and security engineering - Provides and oversees high-level estimates for scoping large features utilizing Wideband Delphi - Actively participating in the engineering process and evolving an Architecture practice to support the department Qualifications: **Knowledge and Skills Required** - Ability to depict the technical information conceptually, logically, and visually - Customer and business focus, and demonstrated skills tied to leadership, people, communication, analytics, and adaptability. Strong leadership skills and demonstrated creative problem-solving skills. - Ability to influence and retain composure under pressure in environments of rapid change and conflicting demands, communicate effectively with a wide array of individuals. - Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices - Strong analytical and complex problem-solving skills; Data driven and results-oriented - The sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s success - Forward thinking mindset to keep the technology modern for value delivery **Education and Experience** - 10+ years software engineering experience, primarily back-end or full-stack - 5+ years of experience as a Software Senior Architect or Principal Architect using microservices - Experience in a Lean Agile development environment - Deep understanding of event driven architectures - Experience with scalable distributed systems and Cloud Native design patterns - Knowledge of REST, gRPC, and/or GraphQL architecture - Experience with Java and.NET technologies, such as C# or other Object Oriented Languages - Experience with Data Lake, Data Warehouse, and Data Mesh (Snowflake/Databricks) - Extensive background in Public Cloud (Azure/AWS/GPC), C#, Modular JavaScript Frameworks (VueJs of React), databases (PostgreSQL/NoSQL), caching solutions (Redis), and search technologies (ElasticSearch