FIS

Solution Architect – API, AWS, Kafka

Posted on: 16 Jan 2021

Cincinnati, OH

Job Description

Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS youll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.

About the team

The API Engineering team within FIS Merchant Solutions is responsible for overseeing the strategy, execution, governance, and management of APIs. This position requires strong technical, design, communication, and collaboration skills. We have aggressive goals over the next couple of years and are looking for candidates with a passion for APIs and a can-do attitude. Our goal is that you never stop learning and you never cease to amaze--especially yourself.

What you will be doing

* Proposes, designs & codes software solutions to address complex business needs. Oversees technical and procedural documentation required.
* Facilitate and help the team understand and define how the capability required can be accomplished.
* Creating, analyzing and validating details on back-end/source system capabilities. (e. g: identify data sources and/or provide mapping/spec definition etc.,).
* Create solution architecture, design documentation and diagrams Collaborate within, and across teams to create the right solution Leverage APIs to automate common and repeatable delivery tasks.
* Provides technical guidance and mentor team members on utilizing the Cloud Technologies, Microservices & Kafka Implementation.
* Displays an innovative approach to apply modern principles, methodologies and tools to advance business initiatives and capabilities.
* Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
* Troubleshoot various products and business applications already in production as needed.
* Leads complex problem solving. Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.

What you bring:

Bachelors degree in computer science or engineering or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience. Post-graduate education desired.

* Experience in software development methodologies and best practices
* Experience in Application Design, Architecture Knowledge of application design activities, tools and techniques.
* Experience in design, develop & support RESTful APIs using Java Spring Framework.
* Experience in designing Cloud Applications, Microservices & Kafka pub-sub message processing.
* Configure cache, control quotas, mitigating the effects of spikes, creating concurrent rate limits, and perform other functions related to API traffic.
* Responsible for API Security, API Key Validation, Authentication, Authorization and Identity, Traffic Management, Token Management.
* Responsible for API Mediation including message transformation, parsing, and validation, as well as raise faults and alerts.
* Builds Functional and Behavioral tests for APIs Experience in API Administration and user/developer management.
* Knowledge of API Security using SAML, OAuth 2.0, JWT, etc.
* Working knowledge of networking protocols HTTP, TCP/IP, SOAP, REST.
* Solid understanding of TLS, certificates, keystore and truststore.
* Experience with Swagger, WSDL and similar tools for defining APIs

What we offer you

* The chance to work on some of the most challenging, relevant issues in financial services & technology
* A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities
* A fantastic range of benefits designed to help support your lifestyle and wellbeing

Privacy Statement

FIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice.

EEOC Statement

FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here

For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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FIS

Jacksonville, FL

FIS is a leader in technology and services that helps businesses and communities thrive by advancing commerce and the financial world.

For over 50 years, FIS has continued to drive growth for clients around the world by creating tomorrow’s technology, solutions and services to modernize today’s businesses and customer experiences. By connecting merchants, banks and capital markets, we use our scale, apply our deep expertise and data-driven insights, innovate with purpose to solve for our clients’ future, and deliver experiences that are more simple, seamless and secure to advance the way the world pays, banks and invests.

Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, FIS employs more than 55,000 people across 50+ countries, dedicated to helping our clients be ahead of what’s next. FIS offers more than 450 solutions and processes over $75b of transactions around the planet. FIS is a Fortune 500® company and is a member of Standard & Poor’s 500® Index.

For a better understanding of how FIS evolved into a world-renowned financial services technology leader, one needs to look back at the company's history.

The company was founded in 1968 as Systematics™, which was later acquired by ALLTEL Information Services, and then bought by title insurance giant Fidelity National Financial® in 2003, who renamed it Fidelity Information Services (FIS). Over the course of the next few years, FIS acquired several other financial technology firms, including Certegy® in 2006, eFunds® in 2007 and Metavante® in 2009.

These acquisitions broadened its reach across the globe, earned FIS a place on the Fortune 500 listing, and positioned the company as the largest technology provider to the global financial industry.

In 2015, FIS acquired SunGard, whose complementary offerings brought FIS into new markets for financial technology services, including asset managers, traders, custodians, treasurers, third-party administrators and clearing agents.

In Q3 2019, FIS acquired Worldpay, a global leader in e-commerce and payments, greatly expanding FIS’ capabilities by enhancing its acquiring and payment offerings and significantly increasing Worldpay’s distribution footprint.

This combination of organic and external growth has positioned FIS among the world's leading technology providers to the capital markets, retail banking and merchant industries. We connect the value chain and use our scale to develop solutions that enable our clients to grow confidently. We help our clients seamlessly adapt to innovations. We share insights and data with one another. We shape better experiences for clients and their customers alike. And we do all of this because at FIS we’re out to lift economies and communities across the world by relentlessly advancing the interests of commerce and the financial world.

 

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