Payment Operations Architect
Wells Fargo
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Charlotte • Arizona • North Carolina • United States
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About the role
- Define and evolve target state architecture across business, application, data, and technology domains, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and capability models.
- Develop and maintain architecture roadmaps and transition states that support CIO-approved strategies and product portfolio objectives.
- Act as a strategic advisor to senior leadership, shaping enterprise architecture strategies for highly complex business and technical needs.
- Lead build vs. buy assessments and influence investment planning through architecture decision records and strategic reviews.
- Guide engineering teams on architectural decisions, patterns, and implementation strategies, ensuring traceability to Architecture Specifications and alignment with product backlogs.
- Ensure compliance with non-functional requirements (NFRs), SRE principles, and security standards, embedding these into engineering and testing practices.
- Drive modernization initiatives including cloud migration, application rationalization, and microservices adoption, with a focus on portfolio optimization.
- Provide comprehensive architecture governance, including assurance reviews, risk posture monitoring, and participation in forums such as ACAB and Architecture Council.
- Integrate AI/ML and LLM capabilities into enterprise workflows to support intelligent automation and agentic systems, and lead innovation through POCs and emerging tech evaluations.
- Contribute to reusable architectural patterns, frameworks, and tooling that support federated architecture enablement and standardization across domains.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into actionable technical solutions, and mentor Domain Design Authorities to foster architectural alignment and delivery excellence.
- Maintain deep knowledge of emerging technologies and recommend innovations that deliver competitive advantage and influence vendor roadmaps.
Requirements
- 7+ years of engineering experience with a strong foundation in systems design and enterprise architecture.
- 7+ years of experience in strategic planning and architectural leadership within large-scale environments.
- 7+ years of experience in leading complex technical initiatives and delivering scalable, resilient solutions.
- Expertise in enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, COBIT, IT4IT).
- Deep experience with cloud-native technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker).
- Preferred experience within the Payment Operations domain.
- Pega Architecture experience.
- Strong background in microservices architecture, distributed systems, and platform engineering.
- Experience with AI/ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) and LLM platforms.
- Familiarity with agentic AI systems and autonomous decision-making architectures.
- Proficiency in modeling tools such as UML, ArchiMate, or similar.
- Strong communication, influencing, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience in application security, performance optimization, and resiliency engineering
Benefits
- Hybrid work schedule
- Drug free workplace
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
enterprise architecturesystems designstrategic planningcloud-native technologiesmicroservices architectureAI/ML frameworksmodeling toolsapplication securityperformance optimizationresiliency engineering
Soft Skills
communicationinfluencingcross-functional collaborationmentoringstrategic advising