IT Architecture Specialist

Are you ready to write your next chapter?

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We're looking for an IT Architecture Specialist to join the ever-evolving Billing and Funding team to help us unleash the potential of every business.

What you'll own as the Architecture Specialist

Billing and Funding within Worldpay has built a pricing and billing engine using big-data tech, we are amidst an exciting phase of our technology journey moving to the cloud, making our software cloud native, our infrastructure code and using CI/CD to increase our speed of delivery.

• We are looking to hire a top-class IT Architecture Specialist to help us on our journey. You need to have a strong Engineering background with experience in designing and building highly scalable, Idempotent, loosely coupled, event driven, distributed systems.
• You need to have experience in both the Payments and Billing domains
• You need experience of designing application across on-prem and AWS hosting and migrating applications between them
• Experience with a variety of persistence and AWS services: database, s3, Kafka, EMR, ECS, CloudWatch
• Experience with Cloud Serverless principles
• You should be capable of leading by example and have experience of implementing design principles and roadmaps across a team
• You should be passionate about technology, be ready to get hands on and build POC's to show how things should be done

• You would be expected to guide the teams on our journey towards:

• Fostering an engineering mindset within the team

• Establishing industry best practices for software development
• Adoption of DevOps best practices, tools and technologies

What you'll bring

• General

• Recent hands-on experience, not afraid to look at the code or build POC's

• Knowledge of the payments and Billing domain
• Experience of influencing functional and technical design change
• Demonstrated accountability for a production service having contributed to that service build

• Great communication skills (written and verbal)

• Design/Architecture

• Knowledgeable on Service Architecture

• Knowledge on current technology architectures and approaches such as Event Driven Design, Domain Driven Design, Event Sourcing & CQRS

• Knowledgeable on Architectural best practices, not wedded to any technologies and tools. Experience of applying best tech, tool or architectural principle to a solution

• Technical Knowledge

• Experience in Functional programming

• Experience of designing big data applications
• Knowledge of building scalable applications in AWS
• Knowledge of serverless principles
• Knowledge of persistence methods including database, s3 and Kafka

It's a bonus if you have

• Spark
• EMR Serverless
• ECS/Fargate
• Lambda

About the team

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What makes a Worldpayer

What makes a Worldpayer? It's simple: Think, Act, Win. We stay curious, always asking the right questions and finding creative solutions to simplify the complex. We're dynamic, every Worldpayer is empowered to make the right decisions for their customers. And we're determined, always staying open and winning and failing as one.

Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Worldpayer. Apply now to write the next chapter in your career.

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Sourcing Model

Recruitment at Worldpay works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. Worldpay does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.