# Senior Solution Architect / Senior Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

**Company**: GCIO
**Location**: Pune, Maharashtra
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist.

In this role, you will:

- Define end-to-end solution architecture for Payment Post Processing, with a clear view of target state and evolutionary delivery.

- Create high-quality architecture documentation including options, trade-offs, and recommendations that stand up to scrutiny.

- Design cloud-native solutions on GCP and On-Prem to handle high-volume payment data and events.

- Partner with engineering teams to ensure designs are practical, secure, resilient and operable.

- Shape integration patterns across payment systems and downstream consumers, using APIs and event-driven approaches where appropriate.

- Influence architecture direction through collaboration with other architects and technology leaders.

- Embed non-functional requirements (performance, availability, observability, security, compliance) into solution designs.

- Promote re-use, standards and good practice across teams to accelerate delivery and reduce risk.

To be successful, you will:

- Have proven experience as a Solution Architect on large-scale, complex technology programmes (payments experience strongly preferred).

- Possess deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform, including BigQuery, Spanner, Pub/Sub, Dataflow (and related services).

- Have a strong understanding of modern data platform and distributed system design, including streaming vs batch trade-offs.

- Have solid knowledge of payment systems and messaging standards (e.g., ISO 20022; SWIFT/SEPA/CAMT/PAIN/PACS exposure is an advantage).

- Possess excellent communication skills, with the ability to present clearly, write crisply, and tailor messages to different audiences.

- Demonstrate strong stakeholder management: able to align and influence senior leaders using evidence-based recommendations.

- Be comfortable working through ambiguity, balancing strategic future-state intent with delivery reality.

## Skills

### Required
- Solution Architecture
- Google Cloud Platform
- BigQuery
- Spanner
- Pub/Sub
- Dataflow
- Payment Systems
- Messaging Standards

### Nice to have
- Payments experience
- ISO 20022
- SWIFT/SEPA/CAMT/PAIN/PACS

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