Lead Technical Architect-Payments

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Experience : 18+ years

Role -Technical Architect

Domain -Payments

Location -Chennai-Navalur-WFO

Role Overview

We are looking for a hands-on Technical Architect with deep expertise in the Banking & Payments domain . This is not an “arms-chair” architecture role – we seek a problem solver who rolls up sleeves to design, troubleshoot, and deliver highly resilient, scalable, and secure payment platforms for global banks.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive technical architecture and design for payment solutions across domestic and international clearing systems (RTGS, SWIFT, ACH, etc.).
• Lead production support architecture – ensuring performance, resilience, and 24×7 availability of mission-critical banking platforms.
• Partner with delivery, infra, and client stakeholders to ensure NFRs (Security, Performance, Resilience) are embedded into design and delivery.
• Act as the technical escalation point during go-lives and production incidents; deep dive into application, database, and infra layers to resolve issues.
• Guide engineering teams in applying best practices in Java, API, microservices, and database optimization .
• Work closely with Cloud teams (AWS, Azure) to design deployment architectures, understand nuances of each cloud model, and optimize for cost, scale, and resilience.
• Represent Intellect in client technical discussions, defending architecture choices and problem-solving with senior bank management .
• Travel onsite for short stints during critical phases (go-lives, performance tuning, migration, etc.).

Must-Have Skills

Preferred Attributes