Senior Architect, Software Engineering

In this role, you are responsible for leading the design and delivery of scalable, secure, cloud-native solutions across digital banking, wallets, cards, and payment platforms. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with domain expertise to translate complex business requirements into robust architectural solutions, while mentoring teams and driving engineering excellence.

Solution Architecture & Design

• →Lead the end-to-end solution design for digital banking, wallet, card issuing/processing, and payment systems.
• →Define cloud-native architectures on AWS, leveraging managed services for scalability, resiliency, and security.
• →Design API-first, event-driven architectures supporting real-time and batch payment flows.
• →Ensure clear separation between channels, orchestration, domain services, ledger, and settlement systems.
• →Review and approve solution designs to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and compliance standards.

Banking & Payments Domain Expertise

• →Apply strong domain knowledge across:
  • →Digital Banking platforms
  • →Wallets and stored-value systems
  • →Card issuing, authorization, clearing, and settlement
  • →Domestic and cross-border payment rails
• →Design solutions that address funds availability, settlement finality, reconciliation, and accounting.
• →Ensure architectures support regulations, compliance, and audit requirements across regions.
• →Collaborate with Risk, Compliance, and Operations to embed controls, traceability, and auditability into solutions.

• Master’s degree with 8+ years or bachelor’s degree in computer science or related fields with 10+ years of banking, fintech, or payments technology.   Equivalent work experience in lieu of degree in banking, fintech, or payment technology. 

• Proven experience across Core banking, Digital Banking, Wallets, Cards, or Payments architecture.
• Strong understanding of banking as a service, payment lifecycles, ledgering, settlement, and reconciliation.
• Experience working in regulated environments with compliance and audit requirements.

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS Cloud, including services such as:
  • Compute (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda)
  • API & Integration (API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS, SNS)
  • Data (RDS, PGSql, DynamoDB etc)
  • Security & Monitoring (IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail)
• Deep experience designing API-driven and event-based systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and resiliency patterns.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code.

• Experience with real-time payment systems and local payment rails.
• Exposure to cross-border payments and multi-currency systems.
• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect or equivalent).
• Experience modernizing legacy banking or payment platforms.

Annual base salary range is $140,000 – 180,000 USD per year.  Total on-target compensation includes a base salary and short-term that align with individual and company performance. Actual salaries will vary based on candidates’ qualifications, skills, and competencies.

As part of the application process, all applicants are required to take assessments. Western Union has partnered with a 3rd party provider to administer these tests. Applicants will need to provide their name and email address in order to process the assessments. If you have any questions, you may reach out to careers@westernunion.com. 

We are passionate about honoring our employee's identity and fostering a feeling of belonging. 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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