As a Solution Architect at Kount, you are responsible for design and technical delivery at a solution level. This role requires a wide range of technical expertise, including systems architecture and component design. You’ll build consensus for your architecture across organizations such as product, information security, enterprise architecture, and feature teams. Help us guide engineering teams with various skill sets and backgrounds to bring software solutions from inception to happy customers!

Who is Kount? 

​Kount, an Equifax Company, delivers digital fraud prevention and account protection for more than 9,000 leading brands and payment providers. Linked by Kount’s award-winning AI, the Identity Trust Global Network analyzes signals from 32 billion annual interactions to personalize experiences across the spectrum of trust — from ensuring frictionless experiences to blocking fraud. Quick and accurate identity trust decisions deliver safe payment, account creation, and login events while reducing digital fraud, chargebacks, false positives, and manual reviews.

At Equifax, we believe knowledge drives progress. As a global data, analytics and technology company, we play an essential role in the global economy by helping employers, employees, financial institutions and government agencies make critical decisions with greater confidence. 

We work to help create seamless and positive experiences during life’s pivotal moments: applying for jobs or a mortgage, financing an education or buying a car. Our impact is real and to accomplish our goals we focus on nurturing our people for career advancement and their learning and development, supporting our next generation of leaders, maintaining an inclusive and diverse work environment, and regularly engaging and recognizing our employees. Regardless of location or role, the individual and collective work of our employees makes a difference and we are looking for talented team players to join us as we help people live their financial best.

The perks of being an Equifax employee?

• We offer excellent compensation packages with market competitive pay, comprehensive healthcare packages, 401k matching, schedule flexibility, work from home opportunities, paid time off, and organizational growth potential.




• Grow at your own pace through online courses at Learning @ Equifax.

What you'll do:

• Design technical solutions for new products, features, and infrastructure improvements.


• Work with the product organization to document requirements and identify cross-team dependencies.


• Provide specifications to feature teams, and work with them to break down tasks and estimate delivery dates.


• Establish non-functional requirements and ensure they are met, particularly: quality, security, performance, and monitoring.


• Work with feature teams regularly to provide guidance, technical direction, and remove roadblocks.


• Take ownership for successful product deliveries, including technical execution and systems integration.


• Notify stakeholders on the status of product development, processes, and costs.


• Continually research emerging technologies and propose improvements to existing architecture.

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. Master's degree a plus.


• 8+ years of working experience in one or multiple IT areas (Development, DevOps, IT architecture).


• Strong cloud architecture experience in cloud technologies, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.


• Demonstrable understanding of architecture patterns (microservice, event-based, microkernel).


• Experience collaborating with multiple departments for successful product delivery.


• Communication skills to build consensus, manage large meetings, and deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems.

Success attributes of an Equifax employee; does this describe you?

• Accountability




• Bravery




• Curiosity




• Collaboration




• Think and act differently




• Trust




• Ownership




• Decide-Execute-Ship

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

If this sounds like somewhere you want to work, don’t delay, apply today - we’re looking for you!

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