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Job Summary:
Derex Technologies Inc is an IT consulting and software services company headquartered in Harrison, New Jersey. They are seeking an Enterprise Architect to define and maintain platform architecture, drive cloud strategies, and integrate AI capabilities into workflows, ensuring alignment with business strategies and operational excellence.
Responsibilities:
• Define and maintain a target-state platform architecture to support a scalable, extensible, and resilient payments platform.
• Establish and enforce architectural principles and guardrails that enable consistency while preserving team autonomy.
• Guide architectural decisions for core payment flows, partner integrations, and shared platform services.
• Identify, prioritize, and reduce architectural complexity and enterprise-level technical debt.
• Ensure the architecture supports high availability, correctness, scalability, and regulatory requirements.
• Own the cloud architecture strategy (AWS), with emphasis on resilience, observability, and cost efficiency.
• Partner with Platform Engineering and SRE to ensure architecture supports operational excellence.
• Drive modernization and simplification initiatives where they create measurable leverage.
• Incorporate FinOps-aware design decisions into platform architecture and service patterns.
• Identify and drive practical AI/ML use cases that improve platform and operational outcomes, including: Payment exception handling and resolution, Anomaly detection and fraud signal identification, Intelligent routing, retries, and decisioning, Partner support and operational automation.
• Define architectural patterns for AI-enabled systems, including: Data pipelines and feature readiness, Model integration and inference services, Monitoring, feedback loops, and governance.
• Ensure AI capabilities are secure, explainable where required, and production-grade.
• Partner with product and engineering to ensure AI is embedded into workflows — not treated as an afterthought.
• Translate business priorities into clear architectural decisions and tradeoffs.
• Act as a trusted advisor to leadership on platform investments, sequencing, and risk.
• Support strategic initiatives such as new partner models, platform extensions, and regulatory changes.
• Evaluate vendors, platforms, and build-vs-buy decisions through an architectural lens.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide clear, actionable guidance to engineering teams.
• Establish lightweight governance that balances autonomy with architectural coherence.
• Document architecture in ways that are current, practical, and useful to teams.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise architectural thinking across the organization.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related field (Master’s degree a plus).
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, systems, or architecture roles.
• Proven experience shaping enterprise or platform architecture in fintech, payments, or enterprise SaaS environments.
• Strong background in cloud-native, distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience integrating data and AI/ML capabilities into production systems.
• Practical experience applying AI/ML to real operational or product problems.
• Deep understanding of APIs, integrations, and high-throughput transaction systems.
• The ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup environment and maintain momentum through change.
• A pragmatic, systems-driven mindset with a strong focus on delivering measurable outcomes.
• Comfort operating effectively within a lean, evolving organization and adapting as priorities shift.
• Sound architectural judgment, paired with the confidence to make thoughtful tradeoffs and stand behind decisions.
• Clear, effective communication that aligns technical teams with business stakeholders and organizational goals.
Preferred:
• Experience in payments, banking, or financial infrastructure.
• Exposure to fraud, risk, or compliance systems.
• Cloud or architecture certifications.
Company:
DEREX Technologies, Inc. established in 1996 is engaged nationally in providing professional computer services, including management consulting firm. Founded in 1996, the company is headquartered in Harrison, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.