Sr Manager, Software Architecture

FIS•Jacksonville, FL

About The Position

We are FIS. Our technology powers the world’s economy and our teams bring innovation to life. We champion diversity to deliver the best products and solutions for our colleagues, clients and communities. If you’re ready to start learning, growing and making an impact with a career in fintech, we’d like to know: Are you FIS? About the Role The Senior Manager, Architecture Lead – Payment Networks is a hands-on technical architect responsible for defining, governing, and driving architecture across multiple payment network solutions within the portfolio. The role establishes architecture governance, standards, and consistency while directly contributing to the design and build of large scale, distributed payment processing systems. Reporting to the VP, Portfolio Engineering, this role combines deep technical expertise with portfolio level architectural leadership, ensuring solutions are designed for scalability, resiliency, security, and compliance. The Architect Lead will manage and mentor Solution Architects, and guide teams across multi cloud environments (Azure and AWS), modern APIs, data platforms, and AI enabled systems.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
8–12 years of experience designing distributed systems, preferably in payments or financial services
Strong hands on experience with: Azure and AWS cloud architectures
Java based, API driven systems
Payment processing and checkout platforms
Cloud migrations and modernization
Data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake)
Deep understanding of scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, and performance

Nice To Haves

Experience with payment networks, card processing, or value added payment services
Exposure to AI/ML integrations in production systems
Experience operating architecture governance in large, regulated enterprises

Responsibilities

Establish and lead architecture governance across multiple Payment Network solutions
Define architectural standards, patterns, and guardrails to ensure consistency, scalability, and reuse
Drive cross solution alignment while enabling autonomy and speed for delivery teams
Design and review end to end architecture for payment processing, checkout, APIs, and distributed systems
Act as a hands on architect for complex designs, proofs of concept, and critical initiatives
Provide technical direction across Azure and AWS cloud platforms
Architect high availability, low latency payment processing systems
Ensure architectures meet PCI, security, risk, and regulatory requirements
Guide cloud modernization, including legacy decomposition and migration
Define architectural approaches for data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake) and AI/ML integration
Ensure data and AI capabilities are designed for scale, security, and operational maturity
Lead and mentor a team of Solution Architects, setting clear technical expectations
Build a strong architecture community focused on pragmatism, quality, and execution