Job Description

Are you ready to join a team in a global company where you will play a critical role in designing and developing scalable, message based, event driven micro-service-oriented systems that are the engine behind Western Union? Join Western Union as a Senior Java Software Architect.

Motivated by our values: purpose driven, globally minded, and trustworthy & respectful

We’re a FinTech that’s using insight from customers and colleagues worldwide to improve financial services for families, small businesses, multinational corporations, and non-profit organizations.  We’re a team of over 10,000 people spanning 200 countries and territories.  We believe when money moves, better things happen.

Better requires process discipline and simplification

We’ll be looking to you to work across the IT organization and with the business partners to define and build out complex solutions and drive value through business partners to define and build out complex solutions and drive value through business process simplification, automation and new product capabilities.  You will take lead on partnering with product owners shaping up the technical solutions. You will spearhead technical discussions between internal teams and external strategic partners.  You will consult, influence, develop and maintain roadmaps for all solution integration options ensuring alignment with business objectives.  You will oversee interdependencies between interfacing technologies and their support teams and challenge, draw conclusions and anticipate problems & resolution strategies.

For such a detail-driven role, you will have 10+ years of software development experience and 5+ years of team lead and software design experience developing high traffic customer facing web applications.  You will have a bachelor’s degree in the Computer Science or Engineering.  You will have strong experience in core Java programming including  JDBC, Hibernate JPA, JMS, Spring, Spring-boot, Spring JDBC, JEE, REST APIs and Eclipse IDE.  You will need experience in UNIX, Linux and Shell scripting, along with Oracle, Postgres and NoSQL database technologies.  You’ll have experience in JavaScript/Angular JS/Angular/NodeJS, Single Page Applications and SOA and micro-services design principles and patterns.  You will have experience in modeling and implementing API services using both SOAP and RESTful methodologies and a strong familiarity with source code management and continuous integration/delivery processes and tools like GitLab, Jenkins, Artifactory (Jfrog) and other DevOps tools in the cloud environment.

You’ll have experience in cloud (RDS databases, Cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP -Google cloud etc.)) services with messaging - RabbitMQ, KAFKA & Caching – cloud front, AKMAI. and a strong familiarity with Authentication - SAML, OAuth, Identity Providers (IDP)- OKTA.

You will have experience in Servers like WebLogic 10.5, Apache Tomcat etc.

Join us, and let’s move money for better

Western Union is transforming its business and shaping the financial services sector by driving quality, convenience, and customer service to new levels of excellence. It’s an exciting time for our organization, as the largest cross-border money transfer operator, trusted by millions of consumers around the world. If you’re ready to unleash your potential to help drive change through bottom-up innovation, apply now.

We’re a company on the move, and we want our people to grow and develop.  You’ll have plenty of opportunities to learn new skills and build a career, as well as a great salary and benefits package.

We are passionate about our 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 on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, political affiliation, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, or veteran status.

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