Software Architect - Payment Systems - Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions - External

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is seeking an experienced Software Architect– Payment Systems to join a high-performing team developing cloud-based payments software solutions for the Retail industry. This position will focus on building payment processing applications on top of our cloud-native platform using Microservices and OpenAPI. This opportunity will provide the candidate with the chance to work on a microservices-based platform and help design and code functional deliverables for our new-generation payment processing applications.  

You'll be working alongside other experienced engineers and developers, collaborating on the various layers of the infrastructure for our platform. Qualified candidates will be forward thinking, self-motivated, and bring excellence to the development and customer experience. The role will include individual coding and peer-reviewing of the team's work. 

Responsibilities:

• The Software Architect must have a broad technical background with extensive experience in designing, deploying, and supporting distributed software solutions.
• The candidate must have strong software technology, programming and analytical skills, teamwork, and excellent communication skills. The candidate will also need to communicate at different levels in the organization with other software technical roles, business leaders and to the customer.
• The candidate will lead the Architectural Review Boards with technical leaders across the organization to ensure technical alignment, consistent design principles, practices, tools, and technologies. They will cement solid, reliable, and scalable software solutions for our customers.
• Perform code contributions, code reviews, and maintain high coding and quality standards.
• Research innovative software technologies, best practices, and current industry trends, and facilitate their adoption by the team.
• Ensure quality and efficiency of the product architecture and the source code.
• Mentoring junior developers and new team members.
• Complete all work items including legal clearances, regulatory requirements, product certifications, and ensure that the software meets industry standards.
• Interact with stakeholders such as technical project manager and product manager as appropriate to discuss product functionality, performance, plans and field support escalations.
• Identify and resolve problems, gaps, and challenges in the software engineering processes.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field. 
• 10+ years professional experience in software development.
• 5+ years experience building and supporting cloud based microservice systems.
• Ability to convert technical specifications from the design team or third-party vendors into software implementation.  
• Experience with high availability configurations for web architectures (application server, database, and hardware)
• Strong analytical and Java programming skills. 
• Technical skills in software development technologies and tools such as socket communication, DI, CI, Spring Boot, XML/JSON, Java, JavaScript, Docker, Dagger2, maven.   
• Problem determination and debugging, attention to detail, teamwork, and excellent communication skills. 
• Knowledge of software development concepts/methodology/life cycle, especially Agile methodology 
• Proficiency with code versioning tools like Git 
• Proficiency with Windows- and Linux-based operating systems, including software installation, light administration, and simple scripting.

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of Swagger and REST design 
• Working knowledge of network communication using sockets and HTTPS. 
• Experience with retail technologies and payment processing. 
• Knowledge of cloud computing technologies, Azure.  
• Knowledge of SQL and non-relational databases such as MongoDB. 
• Software development related certifications.
• Experience with PCI data security standards.
• Fluency in English

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is a dynamic billion-dollar global company based in Research Triangle Park, NC, providing retail store solutions to your favorite brands. Have you ever been in a hurry and made use of the self-checkout at Lowe's Foods, earned fuel rewards at Kroger, or just paid for purchases at retailers such as Walmart, Michaels, Carrefour, The Gap, Calvin Klein, Boots, Cencosud, BJ's, or Costco? These are just a few examples of our in-store solutions and impressive customer base that made us the world's installed market share leader.

The nature of retail is changing quickly, so if you share our 'Together Commerce' vision of a seamless two-way, participatory shopping experience, let's get together to drive the new economy.

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, Inc. offers a competitive salary and generous benefits package including the following:

• Group health coverage (medical, dental, & vision)
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Pre-tax spending accounts
• 401(k) plan (with company match)
• Company provided life insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Employee discounts
• Generous paid holiday schedule, paid vacation & sick/personal days

EEO:

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, religious creed, disability, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, national origin, race, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation or any other protected factor. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process should email benefits@toshibagcs.com to request an accommodation

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION:

We at Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions firmly believe that our people are an integral part to the success of our customers. Furthermore, we're committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for all our people as highlighted by our 5 Core Principles (Create Outreach, Foster Belonging, Unleash Opportunity, Diverse Cultural Engagement and Culture of Transparency). We're passionate about our customers the retail industry and becoming a more responsible company as we help create a brighter future.