Solutions Architect

Summary

Andersen is hiring a Solutions Architect for a project with a global payments leader. The role involves developing a new credit card management system for a major bank in Azerbaijan.

Our customer is a global leader in digital payments, operating in over 200 countries and enabling secure transactions worldwide. Recognized among the world’s most admired companies, it fosters a culture of innovation, diversity, and inclusion while offering strong career development opportunities. Committed to social responsibility and sustainability, the customer works to uplift people and communities everywhere.

The project is the development of a new credit card management system for a major bank in Azerbaijan, seamlessly integrated into the existing digital ecosystem. It is a large-scale initiative focused on building a secure, high-performance, and scalable platform to ensure efficient credit card lifecycle management and support the expansion of lending services.

Responsibilities

• Defining and owning the overall solution architecture for credit card management and payment processing systems.
• Working with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into scalable, secure, and high-performance technical solutions.
• Designing end-to-end architectures covering applications, integrations, data models, and infrastructure.
• Leading and guiding development teams in implementing best practices for microservices, event-driven, and serverless architectures.
• Overseeing system integration between credit card platforms (in-house development), core banking system (Oracle Flex Cube), and external payment system (OpenWay).
• Conducting technical reviews, feasibility studies, and impact assessments for new initiatives.
• Preparing solution blueprints, architecture diagrams, and technical documentation.
• Collaborating with Business/System Analysts to ensure requirements are accurately reflected in technical designs.
• Identifying and mitigating technical risks, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and performance.

Requirements

• Proven, up-to-date hands-on experience in credit card management systems, with direct involvement in end-to-end implementations.
• Professional experience for 7+ years, including 3-5 years dedicated to the credit and/or cards domain (as Architect, Developer, or Analyst).
• Strong expertise in credit card core processes and lending management systems, including ISO 8583 & card processing flows, processing & core banking system interaction, end-of-day (EOD) processing, interest calculation, delinquency handling, and payment schedules & re-schedules.
• Experience designing and implementing data models for credit card systems.
• Strong knowledge of integration patterns between card management and core banking, card processing platforms.
• Deep expertise in architectural styles: microservices, event-driven, etc.
• Proficiency in designing secure, scalable, high-availability systems.
• Hands-on experience with payment platforms such as OpenWay, Compass, or Ocean.
• Ability to document solution architectures in a clear, business-aligned manner.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and guide them in implementing architectural best practices.
• Strong skills in stakeholder communication, bridging the gap between technical and business teams.
• Capable of influencing solution design decisions across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Proven ability to work in fast-paced environments and deliver high-quality results within short timeframes.
• Level of English – from Intermediate+.

Desired skills

• Experience with core banking platforms (e.g., FlexCube, Temenos).
• Hands-on involvement in system integration projects with OpenWay and FlexCube.

Reasons to join us

• Experience in teamwork with leaders in FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, and others. Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, BNP Paribas, Ryanair, Mercedes, TUI, Verivox, Allianz, T-Systems, etc..
• The opportunity to change the project and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain.
• Job conditions – you can work both fully remotely and from the office or can choose a hybrid variant.
• Guarantee of professional, financial, and career growth! The company has introduced systems of mentoring and adaptation for each new employee.
• The opportunity to earn up to an additional 1,000 USD per month, depending on the level of expertise, which will be included in the annual bonus, by participating in the company's activities.
• Access to the corporate training portal, where the entire knowledge base of the company is collected and which is constantly updated.
• Bright corporate life (parties / pizza days / PlayStation / fruits / coffee / snacks / movies).
• Certification compensation (AWS, PMP, etc).
• Referral program.
• English courses.
• Private health insurance and compensation for sports activities.

Join us!