Introduction

As an Application Architect/Technical lead with IBM Payments Center, you directly help clients transform their business and solve complex problems. You will define the scope and vision for projects that deliver customized solutions using your knowledge of Cloud platforms. You are a technical leader, serving as a liaison among business partners, technical resources, and project stakeholders.

Your role and responsibilities

- Design, development and deployment of hybrid, multi-cloud and cloud native architectures and solutions for payments transformation initiatives that support the business requirements of the client. Solution responsibility can include but not limited to, infrastructure strategy and design, systems strategy and design, communications strategy and design, and data center strategy and design.
- Lead, create Application Architecture, High-Level and Low-Level design deliverables with client architects.
- Bring expertise in hybrid cloud platform security governance and compliance.
- Best practices in this role use reference architectures and service product assets to develop conceptual and detailed designs.
- Architects are responsible for performance, availability and scalability of the solution and the impact on the client’s infrastructure.
- Support sales opportunities.
- Collaborate with other teams and team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes.

Required education

Bachelor’s Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

- 6+ years of experience in design and delivery of complex and large‑scale IT projects.
- Expertise in the Payments Industry and the design, delivery of payments systems (ACH, Wires, Real Time, Interac, Cheques, Card Payments, etc.). Candidates with strong experience in Banking and Financial services will also be considered.




- 3+ years of experience as an application architect or technical lead providing hands on technical leadership for the end to end design, delivery and management of hybrid cloud solutions (AWS, Azure, IBM, GCP).
- Cloud solution architect certification in one of major cloud providers (IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Experience in design and delivery of cloud native solutions with Microservices, containers & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
- Proven experience in design and delivery of cloud native solutions with Micro services, containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
- Experience in REST API Interface design, API Gateways, Swagger/OpenAPI standard, OAuth.

Preferred technical and professional experience

- Understanding of Red Hat ecosystem (OpenShift, Ansible, RH Fuse, RH SSO, etc.).
- Familiar with infrastructure as code and DevOps automations.
- Familiar with IT Operations and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practice.

Other relevant job details

- Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.
- This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following U.S. sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

Equal Employment Prospect

IBM is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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