Solutions Architect - Payments and Fraud

**No C2C Only W2 Candidates Eligible**

Job Title: Solutions Architect, payments and fraud
Position Type: Contract
Location: Seattle, WA (Hybrid)
Job Description:
This Solution Architect position is a senior role with accountability for solution architecture scoped to business-transformative projects and is involved with projects from inception through implementation.
It is a critical architecture role in our Retail Store Technology team and part of our
Architecture community focusing on retail and payments domain understating retail landscape and where it is going in its future state.

Job Requirements:
Responsible for project-level solution design ensuring the solution design optimally satisfies
needs and expectations of the project stakeholders
Advocates and champions Enterprise Architecture and Domain Architecture recommendations
to the project team
Responsible for overall solution quality; security, performance, flexibility, availability, etc.
Responsible for deciding technologies to use in the solution not already defined by the Domain
Architecture and Enterprise Architecture teams
Responsible for architecture deliverables such as; non-functional requirements, system
diagrams, data models, and traceability matrix to track and monitor the solution from
requirements to design to implementation to test cases

Qualifications:
Bachelor s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
5+ years of hands-on working experience on Java and related JEE/J2EE technology stack
5+ years of hands-on Architecture experience is required
Experience must include programming APIs; Java/JEE; Hibernate; Spring Framework; JSP; AJAX;
JavaScript; XML and XML parsers; SOAP/REST web services; service-oriented architectures
(SOA); data modeling skills; and writing stored procedures.
Experience working with any of the Servlet containers or Enterprise containers like Tomcat, BEA
WebLogic, IBM WebSphere or JBOSS.
Should have knowledge in using any of the mentioned servers like deployment, configuring & troubleshooting
Retail and payment domain experience (highly valued)
Experience with integration of third-party tools and cloud middleware platforms
Able to design SaaS solutions that scale and perform with rock solid reliability, ability to identify
and build-in key application monitoring hooks to allow for optimal management of the solution.
Capable of working with Operations to plan major infrastructure upgrades, to troubleshoot
issues and to tune the environment for optimal performance and uptime.
Must be capable of providing leadership for junior and senior software engineers alike, understands how to leverage and enhance their current skills
Ability to use and communicate system design patterns and anti-patterns
Ability to manage solution architecture design to align to business value
Ability to build solution architecture models using UML.
Ability to strongly justify the proposed architecture and design in a comparative mode.
Ability to develop and manage architecture models such as activity models, class models and
data models
Minimum of 5 years developing real world scaled solutions with knowledge of full application
development lifecycle (SDLC) and methodologies; waterfall, agile and hybrid.
Excellent presentation, verbal, written, and listening skills.
Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
Strong interpersonal and leadership skills including collaboration, facilitation and negotiation.