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Caesars Entertainment · 5 months ago

Payments Architect

Las Vegas, NV

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$150K/yr - $213K/yr

5+ years exp

Caesars Entertainment is one of the biggest names in the world of betting and is striving to become the largest sports betting and iGaming platform in America. They are seeking a Payment Solutions Architect with deep payments systems experience to design scalable and secure solutions for seamless financial transactions. The role involves leading the payments architecture, collaborating with various teams, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

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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

Qualification

Payments systems experienceSoftware architectureCloud-native architecturesAPI designDevelopmentFraud prevention processesData integrationMicro-services architectureCommunication skillsProblem-solving skillsCollaboration skills

Required

5+ years of experience in software architecture, with a strong focus on payments systems. Ideally some exposure to Fintech eco-systems, concepts such as wallets and crypto-currencies

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

Interest in the use of AI based technologies and services

Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive results in a fast-paced environment

Effective communicator with excellent collaboration skills across diverse teams