Expert Application Architect

Our Company

We’re Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world’s potential. We’re people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what’s now to what’s next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

The team

Responsible for leading the charge to drive technology strategy and technical capabilities for an application ecosystem. Leverage deep understanding of business processes and technical building blocks to design application architecture that balances business and customer needs with technical non-functional requirements for resiliency, security and efficiency. Partners with application engineers to ensure the application ecosystem is engineered according to architecture vision and continuously evolve the architecture and application to meet changing customer and business needs. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

The role

Responsibilities
• Independently oversees the design process for an application and innovates unique solution patterns for that application
• Demonstrates a deep understanding of business processes and technical building blocks to help develop product vision and strategy with Product Owners
• Trains others in and out of your department in solution design patterns
• Actively researches innovative solutions and ways to build business capabilities
• Work with executive-level stakeholders on new payment services business strategies and create the architectures to realize the required capabilities.
• Create and maintain the Technology vision and roadmap for the financial clearing and settlement product area.
• Accountable for working with the product area architects to incorporate the technical enhancements in their target architectures and technical roadmaps.
• Provide consulting to payment services architects and application teams on best practices.
• Work with the third-party vendors for product evaluations, roadmaps, feature implementations.

What you’ll bring

Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:
• Bachelors – Computer Science or related
• 12+ Years - Software Development, Software Engineering, Technical Architecture or related

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands on experience with Architecture and designing
• Indepth knowledge and experience in payment transaction clearing, settlement, fee billing and pricing
• Experience with Payment networks, Banking industry and Debit card processing.
• Experience building high performing, scalable systems that adapt and grow to customer needs.
• Architecture patterns, Integration patterns, Right sizing the services, Micro services
• Familiarity using Kubernetes, AWS and/or other cloud computing services.
• Architecture and design documentation using industry standard tools
• Good communication, and presentation skills

As required by the equal pay and transparency acts, the expected base salary for this position is: $130k-$135k base+ bonus.

The expected pay is determined based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, depth of experience in the practice area. Employees are eligible to participate in Hitachi Digital Services bonus/variable/commission pay programs, where applicable, and are subject to the program’s conditions and restrictions.

About us

We’re a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.

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Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.