**Introduction** As a Solution Architect with IBM Payments Center, you directly help clients transform their business and solve complex problems. You will define the scope and vision for projects that deliver customized solutions using your knowledge of Cloud platforms. You are a technical leader, serving as a liaison among business partners, technical resources, and project stakeholders. **Your role and responsibilities** We are currently seeking experienced Architect for our IBM Payments Centre. We wish to add talent to help drive our market growth and shape new solutions which deliver Payments modernization and transformation for our clients. We advise clients on addressing Payments industry regulatory requirements, develop strategy and implementation of innovative technologies and adopting cognitive and cloud-based Payments processing Platform solutions that enable our clients to optimize their costs and enable value added overlay services for their businesses. The IBM Payments Centre team assumes the transformation of all or part of our clients’ Payments operations portfolio and portions of infrastructure to the cloud in support of their digital transformation journey. IBM applies its deep business and technology skills, leading innovation and world-class business processes to help clients maximize benefit from leveraging Cognitive and Cloud capabilities. **Required technical and professional expertise** Expertise in the Payments Industry and the design, delivery of payments systems (ACH, Wires, Real Time, Interac, Cheques, Card Payments etc.). Candidates with strong experience in Banking and Financial services will also be considered. * 3+ years of experience as a solution architect providing hands on technical leadership for the end to end design, delivery and management of hybrid cloud solutions (AWS, Azure, IBM, GCP) * Cloud solution architect certification in one of major cloud providers (IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP) * Experience in design and delivery of cloud native solutions with Microservices, containers & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.) * Proven experience in design and delivery of cloud native solutions with with Micro services, containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift) * Experience in REST API Interface design, API Gateways, Swagger/OpenAPI standard, OAuth * Experience leading projects delivered through a globally integrated capability of onsite, nearshore, and offshore teams * Experience with Agile methods & DevOps * Experience in design and delivery of scalable, fault tolerant and resilient systems Familiar with data center concepts and best practices, high - availability systems, capacity planning, system performance evaluation, and diagnostic techniques and methodologies. **Preferred technical and professional experience** • Understanding of Red Hat ecosystem (OpenShift, Ansible, RH Fuse, RH SSO, etc.) • Expertise in solution infrastructure as code and DevOps automations • Expertise in Datacenter moves to Cloud • Familiar with IT Operations and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practice IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.