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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # System and Software architect - **Company:** Ericsson - **Location:** Plano, TX, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Computing Platforms, Audit Trail, Software as a Service, Cloud Engineering, Computer Programming, Distributed Systems, Fraud Prevention and Detection, Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Software Requirements Analysis, Systems Integration, Event Driven Architecture, Information Technology, Api Design, Microservices - **Published:** September 16, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=001c9864afe1dbc9 ## About the Role The ideal candidate combines strong software architecture experience with the ability to work closely with customers, product stakeholders, and engineering teams. You can translate business and customer needs into clear technical requirements and guide solution decisions for secure, scalable, and supportable financial technology platforms. * Experience working with customers and stakeholders across product, R&D, operations, commercial, and delivery teams * Ability to simplify complex technical topics, translate needs into requirements, and influence decisions at both customer and engineering levels * Extensive experience as a Software Architect, or in software, solution, or platform architecture for complex distributed systems * A solid software development background, including practical coding experience and an understanding of modern development practices * Proven ability to design secure, scalable, API-driven platforms, integrations, and distributed systems * Knowledge of microservices, event-driven architecture, cloud-native design, data models, and systems integration patterns * Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience Preferred qualifications The following experience is not required but would be valuable in helping the candidate contribute quickly in this role: * Experience from financial services, digital wallets, payments, banking, ledgering, KYC, AML, fraud, compliance platforms, or financial inclusion services * Knowledge of industry standards and protocols relevant to financial services integrations * Familiarity with regulated production environments, auditability, privacy, security, and compliance requirements * Experience with public cloud, SaaS delivery models, and multi-country deployments * Experience working in large-scale R&D organizations with modern software engineering practices Key success factors * You think end to end, balancing customer outcomes, product capability, compliance, and operational realities * You bring strong software architecture and coding depth together with customer focus and commercial awareness * You are comfortable navigating ambiguity, translating needs into requirements, and making pragmatic technical decisions * You collaborate effectively across customers, R&D, product, and delivery teams, organizational boundaries, and time zones * You are motivated by building trusted financial technology and helping Ericsson grow its fintech business through customer-relevant innovation ## Description Ericsson is looking for a Senior Architect to help shape the next generation of mobile financial services. In this role, you will translate customer needs into software requirements and architecture for secure, scalable financial solutions connecting digital wallets, payments, ledgering, identity, compliance, and partner ecosystems. You will act as a technical bridge between customers, product stakeholders, and R&D. The role represents Ericsson to customers in the relevant time zone, explains technical trade-offs, and ensures customer needs become clear and implementable requirements. It is well suited to a software architect willing to evolve towards a solution architect role while working close to customers. What you will do * Front technical discussions with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders. Translating customer and business needs into software requirements, target architectures, solution blueprints, interface definitions, and non-functional requirements * Guide software and system-level decisions across applications, API, data, security, observability, resilience, and operational supportability * Work in direct contact with the R&D architects and delivery teams to ensure customer-driven requirements are understood, implementable, supportable, and aligned with roadmap priorities * Partner with security, risk, and compliance stakeholders to embed controls for identity, privacy, fraud prevention, auditability, and regulatory requirements * Support solution shaping, effort estimation, technical risk assessment, and value argumentation for customer and business opportunities * Contribute to architecture governance, technical standards, reusable assets, and continuous improvement across the Ericsson architecture community, DISCLAIMER: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees in this position. They are not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for this position, and you may be required to perform additional job tasks as assigned.