Payments Architect

Caesars Entertainment•Jersey City, NJ

1d•Remote

About The Position

Caesars is one of the biggest names in the world of betting and we are striving to become the largest sports betting and iGaming platform in America. We share in our passion to be industry leaders, providing best-in-class service for all our customers. We’re looking for a Payment Solutions Architect with deep payments systems experience to join our team. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and is passionate about designing scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions that power seamless financial transactions for millions of users. This role is remote with quarterly visits to your home office location. Home Office: Jersey City NJ / Las Vegas Nevada

Requirements

5+ years of experience in software architecture, with a strong focus on payments systems.
6-9 years of software engineering experience, ideally in high-volume, regulated environments.
Deep understanding of payment services, standards, protocols and industry best practices (PCI compliance, tokenization and secure transaction flows).
Thorough knowledge of payment, risk management and fraud prevention processes and services and reporting systems related to this domain.
Modern API / Service based architecture experience and a track record of delivering scalable payments solutions that perform well under very high transactional load
Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures (preferably AWS), Kubernetes, micro-services, and event-driven systems (Kafka or similar).
Expertise in designing and building APIs (REST and GraphQL) and data modeling for both relational and NoSQL databases.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across teams and levels.
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive results in a fast-paced environment.
Effective communicator with excellent collaboration skills across diverse teams.

Nice To Haves

Ideally some exposure to Fintech eco-systems, concepts such as wallets and crypto-currencies
Interest in the use of AI based technologies and services.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and evolution of our payments architecture at Caesars Digital, aligning with our future payments strategy. This includes: Cashier and frontend architecture Services and components related to payments (and their integrations) Payment vendors and their platforms Payments routing & orchestration Fraud prevention tools Data integration with our data platforms through to the financial reconciliation process Essentially all things Digital Payments, Risk and Fraud.
Work closely with engineering, product, compliance, and payments teams to ensure our payments infrastructure meets business needs and regulatory requirements.
Lead architectural discussions, provide hands-on guidance, and ensure best practices in Non-Functional Requirements (NFR’s) scalability, security, reliability and performance.
Identify opportunities to improve existing systems, reduce technical debt, and modernize legacy components in the payments space.
Create and maintain detailed architectural documentation, including solution definitions, system design diagrams and data flow models.
Collaborate with Tech Leads and engineering teams to guide implementation and resolve technical challenges.
Provide hands-on support during critical phases of project delivery to ensure alignment with architectural standards.
Communicate technical concepts and trade-offs effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Identify risks, dependencies, and technical bottlenecks, proposing mitigation strategies as needed.
Evaluate and recommend new technologies, frameworks, and tools to enhance system capabilities.
Engage with other Solutions Architects to maintain architectural standards to drive consistency and efficiency across the organization.
Monitor the growth and scale of underlying services and platforms, engaging with our Platform Engineers to maintain them.