We’re looking for talented professionals, anywhere in the United States, to join us in bringing smart money management and payment solutions to everyone’s fingertips.

At Green Dot, we are evolving to a new and permanent “Work from Anywhere” model designed to maximize the benefits of remote work, promote and enable a strong culture of performance and connectedness, and attract the best and brightest talent who align with our entrepreneurial spirit and mission.

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Summary

As a Solutions Architect you will be responsible for defining, designing, and documenting Green Dot’s banking platform capabilities in partnership with our business partners, product owners, and technical SME’s. You will be responsible for assessing our vendor & partners technical offerings and integration requirements and bring these integrations to life through the evaluation and design phases and supporting the engineering team through the implementation phases. You will also provide technical leadership, mentoring and problem solving/risk mitigation to the engineering teams aligned with delivering solutions for the business domains.

Job Responsibilities

Support for Product and Sales teams

• Act as a Subject Matter Expert to our Product and Business Development teams versed on our Platform capabilities and multiple technology stacks

• Analyze complex financial products and integrations and propose a range of meaningful recommendations and customer-centric technical solutions

• Support business development teams to scope, design and plan work needed to integrate new and existing partners including speaking/meeting with prospective clients.

Solution Design & Delivery

• Responsible for combining information from business, internal functions and technology through ideation, design, and implementation to solve business requirements and problems

• Project and solution effort estimation and team structure definition

• Ensure implemented applications, technologies and services fit for the intended purpose

• Create, coordinate, and maintain High Level Design and LLD Low Level Design, and own E2E process flows. Manage technical design and planning process with relevant technical SMEs

• Support the SW Engineering teams through guidance, research and removing blockers

• Mentor and provide architectural guidance to multiple teams building innovative applications.

• Engage with business stakeholders to understand required capabilities, integrating business knowledge with technical solutions.

• Engage with Technical Architects and technical staff to determine the most appropriate technical strategy and designs to meet business needs.

Change Catalyst

• Define, coordinate, and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision, strategic direction, and framework

Job Requirements

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience with 2 to 3 years of proven Solution Architecture experience

• 3+ year of experience in FinTech, Financial Products and Payment Processing

• Leadership skills; experience providing mentoring and support to SW Engineers

• Excellent analytical skills, ability to understand complex business issues and translate to solutions based on both quantitative and qualitative analysis

• Proven ability to Partner with Product, Engineering, Program Management, Operations and other stakeholders to successfully launch and maintain complex products

• Hands on experience and ability to develop and maintain end to end solution process flows at both high and detailed levels

• Proven ability to understand what the technology needs to do and zero in on and mitigate risks that may inhibit the technology delivering what the business needs.

• Experience implementing event- or message-driven distributed architectures

• Experience planning and shipping complex software releases in an agile software development lifecycle

• Excellent communication skills in verbal, written, and presentation settings with a range of audiences both business and technical, individual contributor and leadership

• Work effectively remotely and with remote teams using collaboration technology

POSITION TYPE

Regular

PAY RANGE

The targeted base salary for this position is $124,900 to $190,900 per year. The final compensation will be determined by a number of factors such as qualifications, expertise, and the candidate’s geographical location.

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Green Dot promotes diversity and provides equal opportunity for all applicants and employees. We are dedicated to building a company that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work (and work environment) will be for everyone. Additionally, Green Dot provides reasonable accommodations for candidates on request and respects applicants' privacy rights.