Solution Architect (TrueMoney, Virtual Bank)

Ascend Money is a leading fintech company providing innovative payment and financial services across 7 countries in the Southeast Asian Region.

Established in 2013, Ascend Money became Thailand's first fintech unicorn in 2021. Its flagship service TrueMoney today has become the most popular digital financial application that enables ease of payments and convenient financial lifestyle.

TrueMoney's extensive agent network as well as offline and online payment services also enable millions of users across the region to access innovative financial services, leading them to better lives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define, maintain and communicate architecture blueprint for payment platform
• Identify and execute key strategy projects to improve services quality, sustainability, extensibility and cost saving
• Create and maintain documents and technical artifacts which comply to architecture, security and compliance standards
• Enforce standard documents, policies and provide guidance to development teams
• Work closely with product, security, technical operations and developers to create design for product development

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• 5Y or more years of relevant work experience.
• Experience defining, applying and enforcing architecture standards, guidelines and policies to the organization
• Good communication skills, abilities to discuss with technical and non-technical people, present ideas and motivate people
• Background knowledge on payment platform and technologies. This includes but not limited to payment processor, acquirer and issuer models, Core Java 8 and higher version, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, NetflixOSS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, EnterpriseDB, NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB, ELK)
• Messaging or streaming middleware such as RabbitMQ or Kafka
• Experience with distributed architectures, SOA, microservices and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
• Experience with Agile and Test Driven Development (TDD) methodologies
• Familiarity with container orchestration technologies such as Mesos and Kubernetes
• Experience with high availability, high-scale, and performance systems.