Distinguished Architect

**About PayU**

PayU, a leading payment and Fintech company in 50+ high-growth markets throughout Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, part of Prosus group, one of the largest technology investors in the world is redefining the way people buy and sell online for our 300.000+ merchants and millions of consumers.

As a leading online payment service provider, we deploy more than 400 payment methods and PCI-certified platforms to process approximately 6 million payments every single day.

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**Role Description**

The role will lead and scale up the architecture organization and will be responsible for building a SME team. Responsible for driving all architecture, re
- architecture initiatives to building data strategy. The role will drive the growth charter and will play critical role in achieving 5X growth in next 3 years. The foundation of all new businesses and product will be built by the team

**Role : Chief Architect**

**Reporting : CTO**

**Location: Bengaluru, Mumbai, Gurgaon**

**Reports: 8 -10**

**Key Responsibilities**
- Collaborate with the product and business teams to design and discuss scalable solutions to business problems.
- Own the products architecture and get involved in key design and architectural decisions with the engineering team.
- Responsible for the building the next generation architecture of the payment processing platform. Charter includes technical solutioning including automation, integration, Resiliency, Self-healing systems
- Initiate and influence the product architecture roadmap being in the driver's seat by proactively planning the architecture team's strategy and goals with the help of engineering and product management team.
- Setup best practices for team to achieve scale and quality performance of the system.
- Mentor architects to scale technical decision making and build long term architectural strategy aligned with product vision
- Own and lead strategic priorities like design thinking and long-term architecture for PayU products.
- Establish long-term architectural vision and defined pathways aligned with required business capabilities, incorporated in both long-range and short planning processes.

**Ideal Experience**
- More than 15 years of experience in technology domain with strong exposure in working with large scale systems.

- Hands-on enterprise architect experience across payments, travel, telecom and e-commerce domains. - Successful background working with stakeholders to develop architecture framework that aligns strategy, processes, with business goals.
- Good knowledge, understanding & experience of working with a large variety of multi-tier architectures. Awareness of pitfalls & use cases for a large variety of solutions.
- Experience & exposure to a variety of large-scale persistent systems including large databases.
- Strong understanding of backend system design and preferably worked on Python
- Managed teams but at the same time be a hands-on technology person.
- Excellent Mentoring skills; Be the technical mentor to your team

**About us**:
**Our Commitment To Building A Diverse And Inclusive Workforce**

As a global and multi-cultural organization with varied ethnicities thriving across locations, we realize that our responsibility towards fulfilling the D&I commitment is huge. Therefore, we continuously strive to create a diverse, inclusive and safe environment, for all of our people, communities and customers. Our leaders are committed to create an inclusive work culture which enables transparency, flexibility and unbiased attention to each and every PayUneer so they can succeed, irrespective of gender, color or personal faith. An environment where every person feels they belong, that they are listened to, and where they are empowered to speak up. At PayU we have zero tolerance towards any form of prejudice whether a specific race, ethnicity, or of persons with disabilities or the LGBTQ communities.