IT Technical Lead

Onsite 4 days per week in Scottsdale, AZ SUMMARY OF POSITION

Swoon has an exciting full-time opportunity with one of America's largest independent tire and wheel retailers, who is actively seeking an IT Payment Technical Lead to join their team. In this role, you will define and drive new payment innovations and align payment and finance strategies with business goals and customer experience expectations.

• Seasoned thought leader in payment technologies who will drive the end-to-end architecture and design for payment and finance flows.
• Work with senior executives and cross-functional teams to understand the payment and finance roadmap to define system requirements and specifications.
• Evaluate, select, and implement payment technologies that align with enterprise architecture and business goals.
• Plan and design the overall structure of a broad technology solution that supports the company strategy.
• As needed, evaluate and select appropriate technologies (software or hardware) and integration methods.
• Define solution architecture aligned to business needs in collaboration with business and IT teams.
• Ensure new product functionality is built with effective, scalable technologies.
• Provide thought leadership by staying well-informed on applicable technology and industry trends, reference architectures, and standards.
• Advises management regarding vision and strategy, technology innovations, and enterprise architecture services.
• Coaches and mentors’ enterprise and solution architects.

• This position requires proven experience as a senior architect with a minimum of ten years of experience in the retail payment space.
• A key requirement is that the candidate should have experience designing and implementing payment solutions at large retailer(s) with high transaction volumes.
• Experience in SAP finance is highly desirable (FI/CO, Treasury, Accounts Receivable/Payable, integrations with payments systems, etc.)
• Strong background with POS systems, payment gateways, acquirer/processor integrations, and omni-channel retail operations.
• Hands‑on experience with payment protocols (ISO 8583, EMV, NFC, tokenization, 3D Secure).
• Strong knowledge of retail systems integration (ERP, OMS, CRM, e-commerce platforms).
• Demonstrated experience working with large‑scale retail environments (multi-store, high transaction volumes).
• Proficiency in API design, microservices, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience with message queuing, real‑time processing, and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with security best practices for payments (PCI DSS, P2PE, encryption).

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