Lead Technical Architect-Payments

13 hours ago

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Intellect Design Arena Ltd Full time ₹ 12,00,000 - ₹ 24,00,000 per year

Location:

Experience:
18+ years

Role
-Technical Architect

Domain
-Payments

Location
-Chennai-Navalur-WFO

Role Overview

We are looking for a
hands-on Technical Architect
with deep expertise in the
Banking & Payments domain
. This is not an "arms-chair" architecture role – we seek a
problem solver who rolls up sleeves
to design, troubleshoot, and deliver highly resilient, scalable, and secure payment platforms for global banks.

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive
    technical architecture
    and design for payment solutions across domestic and international clearing systems (RTGS, SWIFT, ACH, etc.).
  • Lead
    production support architecture
    – ensuring performance, resilience, and 24×7 availability of mission-critical banking platforms.
  • Partner with delivery, infra, and client stakeholders to ensure
    NFRs (Security, Performance, Resilience)
    are embedded into design and delivery.
  • Act as the
    technical escalation point
    during go-lives and production incidents; deep dive into application, database, and infra layers to resolve issues.
  • Guide engineering teams in applying
    best practices in Java, API, microservices, and database optimization
    .
  • Work closely with
    Cloud teams (AWS, Azure)
    to design deployment architectures, understand nuances of each cloud model, and optimize for cost, scale, and resilience.
  • Represent Intellect in client technical discussions,
    defending architecture choices and problem-solving with senior bank management
    .
  • Travel onsite for short stints during critical phases (go-lives, performance tuning, migration, etc.).

Must-Have Skills

  1. Banking/Payments Expertise
    – deep understanding of payment systems, message formats (SWIFT, ISO20022), and clearing mechanisms.
  2. Production Support Experience
    – ability to analyze live issues across app, DB, and infra layers.
  3. NFR Expertise
    – Security, Performance, Resilience design principles.
  4. Hands-on Java & Database Skills
    – capable of debugging, performance tuning (AWR, pg_stat), and resolving complex tech issues directly.
  5. Excellent Communication
    – able to engage confidently with customers, infra architects, and senior management.
  6. Cloud Deployment Models
    – AWS, Azure, hybrid architectures.
  7. Customer-Facing Experience
    – prior exposure to onsite engagements, especially during go-lives and production rollouts.

Preferred Attributes

  • Experience with
    microservices architecture
    ,
    API gateways
    , and
    containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
    .
  • Strong understanding of
    observability, monitoring, and DevOps pipelines
    .
  • Exposure to
    modernization of legacy payment systems
    .

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