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Fiserv · 5 hours ago

Senior Solution Architect — DPS

Berkeley Heights, NJ

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$186K/yr - $286K/yr

15+ years exp

Fiserv is a global leader in Fintech and payments, connecting financial institutions, corporations, merchants, and consumers. The Senior Solution Architect will define and execute the architecture strategy for observability and modernization across treasury and payments platforms, providing expert guidance to engineering squads and leading key modernization initiatives.

Financial ServicesFinTechInformation ServicesInformation Technology

No H1B

Responsibilities

Drive key modernization initiatives: re-platforming, microservices decomposition, containerization, service mesh adoption, serverless patterns, and API modernization

Evaluate and recommend architecture patterns balancing performance, resilience, cost efficiency, and security

Own architecture governance for payments observability and modernization

Partner with security and compliance teams to align designs with regulatory controls and payment‑specific standards

Establish and maintain architecture standards, design guidelines, and reference patterns

Define and track reliability KPIs (SLOs/SLIs, MTTR, deployment frequency, latency, error rates)

Lead post‑incident architecture reviews and drive remediation efforts that reduce recurrence and improve system resilience

Champion continuous improvement cycles based on learnings, retrospectives, and data-driven insights

Qualification

Distributed systemsPayment flowsObservability toolingCloud migrationsMicroservicesContainerizationCI/CD automationPayment securityAWSGCPAzureCommunicator

Required

15+ years of professional experience, ideally with significant tenure in payment processing or treasury environments

Proven experience mentoring senior engineers/architects and influencing technical direction (no people-management responsibilities required)

Deep technical expertise in distributed systems, payment flows (clearing/settlement, ACH, real‑time rails), APIs, messaging, and data architecture

Hands-on experience with observability tooling and SRE practices (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, Jaeger/Zipkin, ELK/EFK, commercial APMs)

Track record of leading modernization efforts (cloud migrations, microservices, containerization, CI/CD automation) in regulated, high‑availability payment environments

Strong awareness of payment security and regulatory frameworks (PCI‑DSS; knowledge of ISO 20022, PSD2, or real‑time rails a plus)

Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure; event streaming platforms like Kafka; service mesh technologies (Istio/Linkerd); and IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation)

Excellent communicator able to articulate complex technical trade‑offs and influence senior stakeholders

You must currently possess valid and unrestricted U.S. work authorization to be considered for this role

Benefits

Annual incentive opportunity which may be delivered as a mix of cash bonus and equity awards

Company

Fiserv

Glassdoor3.1

Fiserv is a provider of technology solutions to the financial services industry.

Founded in 1984

Brookfield, Wisconsin, USA

10001+ employees

http://www.fiserv.com

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$2.48B

Key Investors

BlackBird Financial LP

2026-01-06Post Ipo Equity

2025-04-29Post Ipo Debt· $2.48B

1986-10-03IPO

Leadership Team

Michael Lyons

President and CEO-Elect, Fiserv

Robert Hau

EVP, CFO

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