Digital Solutions Architect

Job Description

The world of finance moves fast. At FIS, we’re faster. Our teams are empowered to learn, grow, and make an impact–in their careers and communities. We deliver innovation that advances the way the world pays, banks and invests. If you want to grow personally and professionally, we’d like to know: Are you FIS?

NOTE:

1: This position will be hybrid (3 days onsite) for candidates who are located within commutable distance from our FIS Office locations in Milwaukee, WI, Jacksonville, Florida & Atlanta, Georgia.

2: Current and future sponsorship are not available for this position

About the role:

As a Digital Solutions Architect, you’ll be at the core of this transformation… defining, designing, and enabling the architecture that powers our API-first, cloud-native banking platform.

This is a role for builders, strategists, and game-changers. Leaders who don’t just follow trends but define them. It’s about aligning architecture with business goals, influencing cross-functional teams, and ensuring that what we build is scalable, secure, and impactful. You will drive key technology decisions, set standards, and help teams navigate the complexities of building a future-proof financial platform.

This is a role for architects who think strategically, communicate clearly, and know how to balance innovation with execution.

About the Team:

At FIS, we’re not just modernizing financial technology—we’re redefining how it works from the ground up—it’s about architecting seamless, API-first, cloud-native solutions that redefine how banking works.

Our Digital Technology team is building a next-gen financial platform—one that moves beyond legacy constraints to enable capability-based banking and payments domain services. We’re focused on public cloud enablement, developer-first experiences, and platform-driven innovation.

This isn’t just a technical evolution… It’s an opportunity to reshape the industry with cutting-edge, scalable solutions that will set new standards. It’s a strategic Digital transformation that will shape how developers, fintech partners, and enterprises build, integrate, and scale financial solutions. And we need the best architects to help drive it.

What you will be doing:

This isn’t just a job—it’s an opportunity to define how the next generation of financial technology is built. You’ll be:

• Shaping an API-first future for banking and payments.

• Architecting platforms that scale across enterprise and fintech ecosystems.

• Working at the intersection of innovation & execution—solving some of the hardest problems in financial technology.

• Driving real business impact—not just designing solutions, but ensuring they’re adopted, implemented, and delivering value.

• Architect & Design for an API-First Future – Drive capability-based banking domain services through a public cloud-enabled architecture.

• Enable Developer-First Experiences – Ensure that our APIs, services, and cloud patterns empower developers to build and integrate seamlessly.

• Define & Champion Architectural Standards – Establish best practices, governance, and technology blueprints that align with organizational goals and business priorities.

• Solve for Scale, Security & Performance – Design solutions that are resilient, high-performing, and secure, balancing real-time, event-driven architectures with long-term adaptability.

• Align & Influence Across Teams – Work closely with engineering, product, and fintech partners to drive alignment on technology priorities, estimation, and delivery execution.

• Evaluate & Integrate Emerging Technologies – Partner with vendors and fintechs to explore best-in-class solutions while maintaining a vendor-agnostic approach.

• Bridge Business & Technology – Proactively engage with stakeholders to ensure architecture decisions align with business outcomes and user needs.

• Lead by Example – Drive cross-functional collaboration, provide mentorship, and ensure our architecture isn’t just technically sound but business-impactful.

What you will need:

• 8+ years of experience in solution architecture or engineering, with a strong focus on API-first platforms, cloud-native architectures, and modern SDLC practices.

• Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS and Azure) and cloud-native services (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, EventBridge), with experience in serverless architectures using Node.js or Python.

• Strong API design and governance expertise, including API lifecycle management, API gateways (Kong, AWS API Gateway, Apigee), API security (OAuth, OIDC, IAM), GraphQL, and REST.

• Experience with real-time or near real-time data architectures, optimizing NoSQL (DynamoDB) and relational (PostgreSQL) databases for performance, cost, and scalability.

• Hands-on experience with microservices and event-driven architectures, leveraging Kafka, SNS/SQS, or Kinesis for distributed, scalable processing.

• Expertise in containerization, orchestration, and CI/CD practices, including AWS Fargate, EKS, Terraform, GitHub, and GitHub Actions.

• Experience designing and building scalable, customer-facing applications, leveraging modular micro frontend architectures for flexibility, performance, and maintainability.

• Strong background in React/React Native, ensuring seamless, high-performance web and mobile user experiences.

• Ability to design secure, highly available financial ecosystems, balancing scalability, observability, and maintainability.

• Experience integrating SaaS/PaaS platforms and third-party fintech solutions into scalable digital ecosystems.

• A track record of building highly scalable, distributed systems that power real-time transactions.

• Strategic mindset with strong communication and leadership skills, able to align technology with business objectives and drive decision-making across teams.

Added bonus if you have:

• Knowledge of Fintech or finance industry.

• Knowledge if FIS products and services.

What we offer you

A career at FIS is more than just a job. It’s the change to shape the future of fintech. At FIS, we offer you:

• A voice in the future of fintech

• Always on learning and development

• Collaborative work environment

• Opportunities to give back

• Competitive salary and benefits

NOTE:

1: This position will be hybrid (3 days onsite) for candidates who are located within commutable distance from our FIS Office locations in Milwaukee, WI, Jacksonville, Florida & Atlanta, Georgia.

2: Current and future sponsorship are not available for this position

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EEOC Statement

FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here

For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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