Solutions Architect

About Ascend MoneyAscend Money is a leading fintech company providing innovative payment and financial services across 7 countries in the Southeast Asian Region. Established in 2013, Ascend Money became Thailand’s first fintech unicorn in 2021. Its flagship service TrueMoney today has become the most popular digital financial application that enables ease of payments and convenient financial lifestyle. TrueMoney’s extensive agent network as well as offline and online payment services also enable millions of users across the region to access innovative financial services, leading them to better lives.Key ResponsibilitiesDefine, maintain and communicate architecture blueprint for payment platformIdentify and execute key strategy projects to improve services quality, sustainability, extensibility and cost savingCreate and maintain documents and technical artifacts which comply to architecture, security and compliance standardsEnforce standard documents, policies and provide guidance to development teamsWork closely with product, security, technical operations and developers to create design for product developmentQualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.5Y or more years of relevant work experience.Experience defining, applying and enforcing architecture standards, guidelines and policies to the organizationGood communication skills, abilities to discuss with technical and non-technical people, present ideas and motivate peopleBackground knowledge on payment platform and technologies. This includes but not limited to payment processor, acquirer and issuer models, Core Java 8 and higher version, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, NetflixOSS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, EnterpriseDB, NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB, ELK)Messaging or streaming middleware such as RabbitMQ or KafkaExperience with distributed architectures, SOA, microservices and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)Experience with Agile and Test Driven Development (TDD) methodologiesFamiliarity with container orchestration technologies such as Mesos and KubernetesExperience with high availability, high-scale, and performance systems.