Security Architect (Payments)

About Company: Synechron is a global technology consulting firm that helps leading organizations accelerate digital transformation through innovation, expertise, and agility. With more than 16,500 professionals across around 60 offices in over 20 countries, we combine deep industry knowledge with advanced capabilities in AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and data engineering. Our regional teams, supported by strategic delivery centers, provide scalable, cost-efficient solutions tailored to local markets. Through our award-winning Synechron FinLabs accelerators and strategic partnerships with AWS, Microsoft, Databricks, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, we enable clients to innovate fast and lead with confidence. For more information on the company, please visit our website or LinkedIn community. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative-action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Job Description: We are seeking a Security Architect with mandatory payments-domain experience to design secure, scalable, and compliant solutions for payment platforms, payment gateways, APIs, and transaction-processing systems. Key Responsibilities and Requirements: Solution Architect experience with strong exposure to security-focused projectsHands-on knowledge of Identity & Access Management (IAM)Experience with Single Sign-On (SSO) solutionsUnderstanding of Data Loss Prevention (DLP) technologiesAbility to translate business and security requirements into solution architecturesExperience creating solution design documents and architecture diagramsAbility to work closely with Security Architects, Engineering, and Application Support teamsExperience presenting solutions through Architecture Review Boards/Governance processesStrong stakeholder management and communication skillsProven experience designing or securing payment platforms, payment gateways, payment APIs, card-payment systems, digital wallets, or transaction-processing solutionsStrong understanding of payment data flows, tokenization, encryption, API security, and secure payment integrationsPractical knowledge of PCI DSS and security controls applicable to payment environmentsAbility to assess security risks and define controls for payment applications, infrastructure, cloud platforms, and third-party payment providers Mandatory Experience: Prior experience working in the payments, banking, or financial-services domainExperience securing high-volume, business-critical payment systemsKnowledge of payment security, regulatory, and compliance requirements Note-Candidates without relevant payments-domain experience will not be considered.