Principal Solution Architect @ Diebold

Expect more. Connect more. Be more at Diebold Nixdorf. Our teams automate, digitize, and transform the way more than 75 million people around the globe bank and shop in this hyper-connected, consumer-centric world. Join us in connecting people to commerce in this vital, rewarding role.

Engages with client decision-makers and buyers to understand business, technical and other requirements. Engages internally with DN technical, product and service delivery stakeholders to develop client-focused solutions and proposals. Crafts compelling, valuable solutions and presents to key customers to drive revenue in new accounts and expand DNs presence within the existing customer base. Contributes to successful project delivery by supporting initial project setup, developing technical specifications and addressing / resolving complex issues. Collaborates across IT, other technical, product, operations and relevant stakeholders to define architectural standards and ensure their understanding and application.

Required Qualifications

• 13+ years of hands on experience on Java/J2EE, Spring, Microservices, Cloud Native & Agnostic Environment
• Fulltime Bachelor and/or Master degree in Engineering with a minimum of 60% grade
• Highly skilled on building payment applications, online transaction processing and transaction switching
• Experience in delivering scalable and high performance APIs, services and applications
• FinTech/BFSI domain - Payment acquiring and issuing for ATM/POS/EFT/e-commerce channels
• Instant / Digital / cross-border payments
• Demonstrated ability and experience in the entire product development cycle: from requirements, effort estimation, design, implementation, test and to deployment and production support
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think outside the box.
• Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift Build / deployment for on-prem/cloud azure/aws/google (Jenkins, Ansible/Terraform/Helm charts) Performance optimizations of product for cloud/on-prem
• Oracle/PostgreSQL, No SQL, Distributed databases, DB level troubleshooting & optimizations for on-prem and cloud env

Preferred Qualifications

• Very good understanding on ISO8583 messages and network schemes specs
• Exposure around Settlement, Clearing and Reconciliation in Payment ecosystem
• Understand very well card products like Credit/Debit/Prapaid, EMV and card management
• POS - Merchant onboarding & management
• ISO20022, PSD2, UPI would be additional benefits
• Understanding of security protocols, encryption/decryption technologies, HSM, certificates (Nice to have)
• Understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift and exposure to cloud Azure/AWS/Google deployments and optimizations
• Queuing techniques ie. Kafka
• Observability - Exposure on Elastic Search/Kibana, Grafana, Splunk and Prometheus metrics
• Exposure working on front end stack ie. Reactjs (Nice to have)

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• Responsible for managing the largest and most complex customer projects.
• Provides Solution Architect advice and support across the company as required to address and resolve significant, complex and business critical issues.
• Engages with (internal)customers to understand objectives, business priorities and how DN equipment, systems and services facilitates their success.
• Provides deep product and technical knowledge to help structure and optimize DN product functionality.
• Helps architect scalable, highly available application and enhancement solutions.
• Monitors Solution Architect metrics to identify trends, progress and best practices.
• Guides and coaches cross-functional project teams on large and complex projects in terms of technical implementation and development principles.
• Packages best practices and lessons learned into thought leadership, methodologies and published assets to help improve Solutions Architect processes and practices.
• Identifies the architectural end-to-end risks, including those associated with information security, and ensures risk mitigation throughout the lifecycle of a sales bid and project delivery.