Solution Architecture, Global Payment Solutions (GPS)

HSBC Global Services Limited • Buffalo, NY

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About The Position

As a Solution Architect within Global Payment Solutions (GPS), you will design and assure end-to-end payment solutions that are secure, resilient, compliant, and scalable. The role spans core payments capabilities including initiation, processing, orchestration, routing, confirmations, reconciliation, investigations, and reporting and management information (MI). You will partner across product, engineering, operations, cybersecurity, and risk to translate outcomes into practical technology designs. A key part of the role is balancing time-to-market with long-term maintainability and operational excellence. Success looks like solutions that are buildable, testable, and operationally ready with clear non-functional requirements (NFRs) and design evidence. You will also help strengthen engineering maturity through governance, coaching, and simplification across the Global Payment Solutions estate.

Requirements

• Proven solution architecture experience delivering complex, distributed systems in an enterprise environment
• Demonstrable experience delivering ISO 20022 payment solutions, including message schemas, mapping/transformation, validation, versioning, and coexistence with legacy formats during migration
• Demonstrable knowledge of payments architectures and/or high-throughput transactional platforms
• Strong integration experience across application programming interfaces (APIs), messaging or event streaming and service orchestration
• Establish robust non-functional requirements (NFR) engineering across resilience, performance, capacity, disaster recovery (DR), observability, and operational readiness
• Embed security-by-design across identity and access management (IAM) concepts, threat modeling, encryption, secrets management and secure application programming interface (API) design
• Produce clear architecture artifacts and facilitate structured design reviews and governance
• Partner effectively with stakeholders and explain complex topics clearly across product, engineering, operations, cybersecurity and risk
• Apply experience modernizing legacy payments platforms and/or migrating to cloud or hybrid architectures

Responsibilities

• Own solution architecture across payments platform initiatives including new capabilities, modernization, migrations, and regulatory-driven change
• Translate business requirements into designs spanning applications, data, integration, infrastructure, security, and operational processes
• Produce and maintain architecture artifacts including high-level design (HLD), low-level design (LLD), diagrams, integration flows, non-functional requirements (NFRs), runbooks and architecture decision records (ADRs)
• Design integration patterns across the payments ecosystem including application programming interface (API)-led, event-driven or message-driven and file-based approaches where required
• Establish handling for payment-specific concerns including idempotency, timeouts, retries, ordering, cutoffs, reconciliation, exception handling, and auditability
• Define and assure non-functional requirements (NFRs) covering availability, resilience, latency, throughput, disaster recovery (DR), capacity, observability, security and privacy
• Embed HSBC-aligned controls including least privilege, encryption, secrets management, logging and monitoring and vulnerability management
• Govern design through reviews and architecture forums, making trade-offs explicit and supporting delivery at pace

Benefits

• Tailored professional development opportunities
• Competitive pay and benefits package
• Robust Wellness Hub
• Welcoming and inclusive work environment
• Industry-leading volunteerism policy
• Generous matching gift program
• Comprehensive program of immersive Sustainability and Climate Change Initiatives
• Employee Resource Groups

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed