Senior Consultant-Portfolio Technical Architect

Senior Consultant, Portfolio Technical Architect – Pune, India

Does playing a critical role in improving engineering quality sound exciting to you? How about working for a global fintech company on global transformation projects? Join Western Union as Senior Consultant, Portfolio Technical Architect – Mobile.

Western Union powers your pursuit.

As a Senior Consultant, Mobile, you will demonstrate strong capabilities in assessing business needs while providing creative and effective solutions in conformance to emerging technology standards. You would be performing below responsibilities –

Role Responsibilities

• Create vision, strategy, and plan to build high performing engineering teams
• Make appropriate product and business trade-offs and give technology direction that leads to measurable product and business outcomes
• Execute to success through diligent planning, attention to detail, effective delegation, and efficient decision-making
• Interface and collaborate with other engineers in geographically distributed development centers
• Strong emphasis on customer journey, product quality, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and continuous development
• Apply Agile methodology daily and follow Definition of Done (DoD) process for better quality by maintaining 80% and unit test coverage and 70% integration test coverage
• Define, design, and implement complex, multi-tier distributed software systems throughout all phases of the software development process
• Develop technical & domain expertise and apply to solving product challenges
• Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and roll out applications with cross-functional impacts
• Recruit, develop, and mentor world-class engineering talent
• Be a culture champion on the team and across the company
• Thorough code reviews
• Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and roll out applications with cross-functional impacts
• Share engineering support and release

Role Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience or MS with 6+ years of experience with 2+ years in a leadership role
• Demonstrated experience Mobile (Android /iOS /Hybrid ) and Web application development
• Excellent in the skillsets Node JS, JavaScript with React and React Native framework.
• Excellent decision-making, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Excellent understanding software life cycle .
• Demonstrated capabilities in assessing business needs while providing creative and effective solutions in conformance to emerging technology standards
• Team player with strong analytical, verbal, and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast paced, iterative development environment and adapt to changing business priorities and to thrive under pressure
• Experience with unit testing and mocking frameworks
• Nice to have:

• Experience in creating and consuming RESTful and SOAP based web services
• Hands-on experience in Java/J2EE, XML, Web technologies, Web Services
• Experience with agile development methodologies with Test Driven Development (TDD) and CI (Continuous Integration)/CD (Continuous Delivery)
• Ability to adapt to changing business priorities and to thrive under pressure.
• Proven ability to understand the business and ability to contribute to technology direction that drives measurable business improvements
• Hands-on experience in building high performance and large-scale real-time systems that scale to billions of transactions per day

We make financial services accessible to humans everywhere. Join us for what’s next.

Western Union is positioned to become the world’s most accessible financial services company —transforming lives and communities. We’re a diverse and passionate customer-centric team of over 8,000 employees serving 200 countries and territories, reaching customers and receivers around the globe. More than moving money, we design easy-to-use products and services for our digital and physical financial ecosystem that help our customers move forward.

Just as we help our global customers prosper, we support our employees in achieving their professional aspirations. You’ll have plenty of opportunities to learn new skills and build a career, as well as receive a great compensation package. If you’re ready to help drive the future of financial services, it’s time for Western Union. Learn more about our purpose and people at https://careers.westernunion.com/.

Benefits

You will also have access to short-term incentives, multiple health insurance options, accident and life insurance, and access to best-in-class development platforms, to name a few
(https://careers.westernunion.com/global-benefits/). Please see the location-specific benefits below and note that your Recruiter may share additional role-specific benefits during your interview process or in an offer of employment.

Your India-specific benefits include:

• Employees Provident Fund [EPF]
• Gratuity Payment
• Public holidays
• Annual Leave, Sick leave, Compensatory leave, and Maternity / Paternity leave
• Annual Health Checkup
• Hospitalization Insurance Coverage (Mediclaim)
• Group Life Insurance, Group Personal Accident Insurance Coverage, Business Travel Insurance
• Cab Facility
• Relocation Benefit

Western Union values in-person collaboration, learning, and ideation whenever possible. We believe this creates value through common ways of working and supports the execution of enterprise objectives which will ultimately help us achieve our strategic goals. By connecting face-to-face, we are better able to learn from our peers, problem-solve together, and innovate. 

Our Hybrid Work Model categorizes each role into one of three categories. Western Union has determined the category of this role to be Hybrid. This is defined as a flexible working arrangement that enables employees to divide their time between working from home and working from an office location. The expectation is to work from the office a minimum of three days a week.

We are passionate about diversity. Our commitment is to provide an inclusive culture that celebrates the unique backgrounds and perspectives of our global teams while reflecting the communities we serve. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, political affiliation, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, or veteran status. The company will provide accommodation to applicants, including those with disabilities, during the recruitment process, following applicable laws.

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