Blackbaud
Solutions Architect, Payment Operations
Remote, United States of America
Sponsorship not specified$134k-$174kDetected 82 days ago
Distributed SystemsCloud PlatformsData VisualizationAI OrchestrationComplianceProduct ManagementAgileCRMAccountingSAPERPHRISCommunicationNetSuite
About the role
- This role is critical to ensuring that customer and donor funds move securely, accurately, compliantly, and at scale from authorization through settlement and reporting.
- What you'll be doing: Define and evolve the solution architecture for the Payments Operations value stream, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and business strategy.
- Ensure architectural alignment and dependency management across multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs).
Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain a long-term architectural roadmap supporting end-to-end payment lifecycles including authorization, settlement, reconciliation, refunds, chargebacks, and reporting.
- Drive modernization using cloud-native, API-first, and event-driven architectures to improve scalability, resiliency, and observability.
- Lead architectural design across payment gateways, billing and invoicing platforms, ERP and general ledger integrations, and financial data pipelines.
- Design highly available and fault-tolerant systems supporting mission-critical financial workflows with strict SLAs.
- Collaborate with Enterprise, Cyber, and Solution Architects to ensure interoperability across adjacent value streams.
- Partner with Finance, Risk, Compliance, Product, and Engineering teams to translate business and regulatory requirements into secure, scalable technical solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver solutions meeting quality, security, availability, and operability standards.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in solution or enterprise architecture roles.
- 3+ years of experience working in a SAFe environment or other scaled Agile frameworks.
- Experience with Integration & Event Hubs, Event Streaming & Pub/Sub, and AI orchestration Strong understanding of PCI DSS, SOX controls, auditability, and financial compliance requirements.
- Experience with enterprise data platforms, including data warehouses, master data management, and analytical/reporting tools (e.g., Qlik, Tableau, Power BI).
- Experience with cloud platforms, microservices, and API gateway architectures.
- Familiarity with fraud detection, chargeback workflows, and risk scoring platforms.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to mentor architects and senior engineers.
Nice to have
- Preferred Skills Experience with payment gateways and processors (e.g., Stripe, Cybersource, Adyen, Braintree, Hyperwallet, Worldpay, PayPal).
Skills
- BLKB) is the world's leading cloud software company powering social good.
Compensation
- The starting base pay is $133,700.00 to $173,800.00.
Benefits
- Guided by our Intelligence for Good® vision, we're building a culture where innovation, trust, and human expertise come together to help organizations make a greater difference in the world.
- Benefits Include:
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment.
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