Payments Solution Architect

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Job Title

Payments Solution Architect

What does a successful Payments Solution Architect do at Fiserv?

You will provide thought leadership in architecture, technology, and solution design to our product, business, and technology teams for both internal initiatives and client-facing engagements. Utilizing your experience in application, data, and platform architecture, you will support key technology initiatives involving card issuing and payment platform solutions while you lead the architecture and design efforts throughout the sales and implementation lifecycle, supporting client technical discussions, design, development, and testing activities.

What you will do:

• Participate in understanding, structuring and inception meetings to design the solution from its early stages
• Responsible for defining the architecture and functional solution, and defining the impact of the solution in VisionPlus
• Facilitate architecture discussions and design workshops with customers to identify and evaluate architectural and technical requirements and develop solution design documents for delivery to clients and internal development team. Prepare high level effort estimates for proposed solution designs
• Review technical designs to ensure alignment to the architecture definition and adherence to compliance, security, and enterprise IT standards. Ensure all requirements are addresses in the technical solution
• Assist in resolving complex issues and incidents during implementation, testing, production and aiding in the implementation and stabilization of the solution

What you will need to have:

• 8+ years of proven experience building and implementing card payment solutions using VisionPLUS as an architect, technical SME, or senior developer
• 5+ years of deep technical expertise in at least 2 VisionPLUS application subsystems from either CMS, FAS, TRAMS and/or VMX and understanding of the overall VisionPLUS architecture, including common aspects like security, framework, integration between modules, monetary and non-monetary transactional flows, points/rewards modules, and data extraction and reporting
• 4+ years of proven experience in solution design, ability to translate client requirements into high level designs and estimate time and effort to build the solution
• 3+ years of solution architecture experience in consumer and corporate card payment products (debit, credit, prepaid), card issuing platforms, end-to-end payment authorization process and card schemes
• Knowledge of CICS, COBOL and z/OS, including JCL, payment authorization switches (e.g., Base24) and Fraud prevention solutions (e.g., Falcon Fraud Manager)

What would be great to have:

• Spoken Spanish language proficiency is a plus
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information security, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, work, and/or military experience

This role is not eligible to be performed in Colorado, California, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maryland, New York, Nevada, Rhode Island or Washington.

Please note that salary ranges provided for this role on external job boards are salary estimates made by outside parties and may not be accurate.

Thank you for considering employment with Fiserv. Please:

• Apply using your legal name
• Complete the step-by-step profile and attach your resume (either is acceptable, both are preferable).

What you should know about us:

Fiserv is a global leader in payments and financial technology with more than 40,000 associates proudly serving clients in more than 100 countries. As one of Fortune® magazine's "World's Most Admired Companies™" 9 of the last 10 years, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and a top scorer on Bloomberg’s Gender-Equality Index, we are committed to innovation and excellence. 

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Fiserv is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we welcome and encourage diversity in our workforce that reflects our world. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by law. 

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