Solutions Architect Lead

Purpose Define practical, secure, and scalable solution architectures across SuperPay’s Billing, Acceptance, and Enterprise teams. Combine hands-on design with cross-team technical guidance, helping teams make sound technical decisions and address integration and architectural risks. Key Responsibilities Translate business requirements into solution designs, system components, and integration flows. Provide architecture guidance and review technical designs across all technology teams. Establish and promote consistent architecture principles, API design standards, and technical documentation. Identify cross-team dependencies, technical risks, and opportunities to simplify or improve existing systems. Work closely with engineering, product, business analysis, operations, and security stakeholders. Facilitate technical decisions across teams, escalating unresolved architectural disagreements or significant risks to the CTO. Participate in technical investigations and proof-of-concept development when needed. Requirements Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. 8+ years of software or systems engineering experience, including 3+ years in solution architecture. Strong knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, integration patterns, databases, security, scalability, and reliability. Ability to translate business needs into practical technical designs and explain trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Experience guiding engineers and influencing technical decisions across teams. Preferred Qualifications Experience in fintech, payment gateways, merchant acceptance, billing, or transaction-processing systems. Familiarity with payment flows, idempotency, reconciliation, retries, and failure handling. Experience establishing architecture practices in a growing engineering organization. Strong understanding of Java and Spring Boot architectures, REST APIs, and enterprise integration patterns. Experience designing integrations across heterogeneous systems, including WSO2 and PHP-based applications. Working knowledge of relational databases, particularly Oracle and PostgreSQL. Familiarity with mobile application architectures across Android, iOS, and Flutter. Show more Show less