Solution Architect, Solution Engineering

Solution Architect, Solution Engineering, Pune

Are you ready to join an advanced team in a global company and participate in the creation and development of new products and features? Want to join an organization looking to disrupt the financial services industry? Join Western Union as an Solution Architect, Solution Engineering.

Western Union powers your pursuit

The Application Architect will lead the design and delivery of scalable, cloud-native microservices powering Western Union's digital platform. This role serves as a hands-on technical expert and service owner, partnering with distributed engineering teams to ensure reliability, performance, and architectural excellence.

Role Responsibilities

• Develop and implement new software, maintain and improve existing software

• Ensure that software functionality is implemented with a focus on code optimization and organization

• Recommend improvements to existing software programs

• Troubleshoot application issues and coordinate issue resolution with operations, functional, and technical teams

• Work as service lead with development team across geographically distributed structure

• Review design and code from different scrum teams and ensure service level standards are enforced

• Responsible for maintaining quality and engineering metrics of specific microservices as a services owner

• Provide coaching to Junior engineers on the team

• Works independently on complex projects

Role Requirements

• Hands on technical lead with demonstrated experience in designing and implementing large scale microservices.

• BS in Computer Science or related fields with 7+ years of professional experience or MS with 5+ years of experience.

• Demonstrated experience in modern programming languages and frameworks (Java Springboot, DynamoDB/Postgres, kafka, redis, Apache Camel) and standard design patterns for implementing microservices

• Proven ability to understand business and ability to contribute to technology direction that drives measurable business improvements

• Excellent decision-making, communication, and collaboration skills

• Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, OOPs, and OOA/D

• Demonstrated capabilities in assessing business needs while providing creative and effective solutions in conformance to emerging technology standards

• Experience with architecture design concepts and techniques and the ability to communicate and evangelize those concepts to a broad-based team

• Hands-on experience in building microservices based architecture and platform developed and deployed at scale

• Hands-on experience building enterprise scale APIs used by web and mobile applications

• Experience with agile development methodologies with Test Driven Development (TDD) and CI (Continuous Integration)/CD (Continuous Delivery)

• Experience in Cloud (AWS) based architecture designs and implementations

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in FinTech industry

• Experience in building external customer facing applications with open-source technologies and understanding of frontend tech stack

We make financial services accessible to humans everywhere. Join us for what's next.

Western Union is positioned to become the world's most accessible financial services company —transforming lives and communities. We're a diverse and passionate customer-centric team of over 8,000 employees serving 200 countries and territories, reaching customers and receivers around the globe. More than moving money, we design easy-to-use products and services for our digital and physical financial ecosystem that help our customers move forward.

Just as we help our global customers prosper, we support our employees in achieving their professional aspirations. You'll have plenty of opportunities to learn new skills and build a career, as well as receive a great compensation package. If you're ready to help drive the future of financial services, it's time for the Western Union.

Benefits

You will also have access to short-term incentives, multiple health insurance options, accident and life insurance, and access to best-in-class development platforms, to name a few.

Your India specific benefits include:

• Employees Provident Fund [EPF]
• Gratuity Payment
• Public holidays
• Annual Leave, Sick leave, Compensatory leave, and Maternity / Paternity leave
• Annual Health Check up
• Hospitalization Insurance Coverage (Mediclaim)
• Group Life Insurance, Group Personal Accident Insurance Coverage, Business Travel Insurance
• Cab Facility
• Relocation Benefit

Western Union values in-person collaboration, learning, and ideation whenever possible. We believe this creates value through common ways of working and supports the execution of enterprise objectives which will ultimately help us achieve our strategic goals. By connecting face-to-face, we are better able to learn from our peers, problem-solve together, and innovate.

Our Hybrid Work Model categorizes each role into one of three categories. Western Union has determined the category of this role to be Hybrid. This is defined as a flexible working arrangement that enables employees to divide their time between working from home and working from an office location. The expectation is to work from the office a minimum of three days a week.

We are passionate about diversity. Our commitment is to provide an inclusive culture that celebrates the unique backgrounds and perspectives of our global teams while reflecting the communities we serve. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, political affiliation, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, or veteran status. The company will provide accommodation to applicants, including those with disabilities, during the recruitment process, following applicable laws.