Architecture Specialist

Description

Job Summary: We are seeking a technical leader to define, implement, and evolve payment platforms, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security. Key Highlights: 1. Technical leadership in payment platforms 2. Focus on innovation and technical excellence 3. Development of scalable and resilient solutions VP**: CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER** Department: **ARCHITECTURE AND PLATFORMS** Work Location**: Avenida Engenheiro Luís Carlos Berrini, 1376** We are a digitally evolving organization focused on building technological assets that support and accelerate the business. Our culture emphasizes results, collaboration, responsible innovation, and technical excellence. The **Payment Platforms** area aims to build, evolve, and sustain payment platforms that enable essential company capabilities, ensuring all payment-related flows operate in a unified, reliable, and scalable manner. We organize cross-cutting capabilities in a structured, reusable, and product-oriented way, ensuring architectural consistency, governance, and continuous evolution of solutions supporting **Vivo's** channels, systems, and financial services. Our goal is to build an increasingly digital company with robust and sustainable value propositions for our customers. Do you identify with this? Then this opportunity is for you. **Responsibilities and Duties** * Act as technical leader in defining, implementing, and evolving platforms. * Lead end-to-end technical initiatives: discovery, design, implementation, and maintenance. * Define, develop, and institutionalize architectural standards, specifications, and references. * Design end-to-end technical solutions for high-scale transactional environments. * Ensure reliability, scalability, security, and high availability. * Guarantee idempotency, consistency, resilience, and low latency in workflows. * Define testing strategies for critical workflows and ensure technical quality. * Implement observability with metrics, logs, tracing, and alerts. * Collaborate closely with product, operations, and corporate architecture teams. * Support strategic technical decisions. * Serve as a technical reference for the team and elevate engineering maturity. **Requirements and Qualifications** * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related fields. * Proven experience in solution architecture on public or hybrid cloud. * Strong foundation in distributed systems, high availability, scalability, and resilience. * Experience with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes). * Experience with microservices architecture and best practices for decoupling. * Experience designing and implementing REST APIs and event-driven architectures. * Experience with messaging and event streaming (queues, pub/sub, retries, dead letter queues, eventual consistency). * Solid full-stack development experience, with backend expertise in highly critical transactional systems. * Experience with modern languages and frameworks such as Java (Spring Boot), Node.js, Python, and React. * Experience with relational, non-relational, and graph databases, including domain-driven data modeling. * Experience with automated testing, quality assurance strategies, and definition of critical workflows. * Experience with CI/CD practices, deployment automation, and DevOps culture. * Experience with observability, logging, metrics, and monitoring in high-scale environments. * Ability to industrialize technological solutions—from concept to operation. * Ability to translate complex business rules into robust technical solutions. * Hands-on profile with architectural vision and ability to serve as a technical reference. * Knowledge or experience with TM Forum standards and their Open APIs will be considered a differentiator. * Practical experience applying AI (LLMs, RAG, agents, or intelligent automation) will be considered a differentiator. **Additional Information** At Vivo, we spare no effort in supporting and valuing our employees! These are not just excellent benefits—they’re also flexible. Here’s what we offer\* you: * Choose the ideal benefit for you and your dependents via a digital platform offering various categories: Gym, VR, VA, Pharmacy Assistance, Medical Assistance, Dental Assistance, and Life Insurance; * Corporate mobile phone. Yes, a brand-new smartphone for you! * Unlimited voice and data plan! Yes, unlimited! Vivo’s 5G is up to 10 times faster! * An exclusive Vivo offer with special discounts on landline, broadband, TV, and apps; * Eligibility for annual Bonus or PPR; * Plan your future through our Private Pension Plan; * Have children? You’ll receive a subsidy to help cover school, daycare, or babysitter expenses; * Work in an environment that respects your personality, dress style, individuality—you can be authentic. \#VemdeVocê * Remote work up to two days per week. \#Mobility * Flexible working hours; * Enjoy a day off (Day off) to celebrate your birthday; * Participate in one of the largest corporate volunteer programs to transform the world; * Access our Educational Development Program, featuring partnerships with educational institutions offering discounts; certifications and online courses; * Accelerate your career through our Internal Recruitment Program, available in Brazil or abroad—we operate in over 17 countries! \#VivoMinhaCarreira And much more! But you must apply to find out... * Subject to company-defined eligibility policy. **\#VEMPRAVIVO** All our positions are open to persons with disabilities and/or rehabilitated individuals. We foster a culture that values diversity, differences, and people’s potential! We are part of Telefônica Group, Brazil’s telecommunications leader. Our purpose is to **Digitalize to Connect** people, businesses, and society—building a more connected nation and transforming the lives of Brazilians. We aim to expand autonomy, personalization, and real-time choices for our customers, placing them in control of their digital lives—with security and reliability—all delivered with Vivo’s unique quality. To make this possible, we lead a digital transformation process and are revolutionizing our company from within. We’ve implemented agile methodologies across the organization, connecting us with the most innovative and collaborative ways of working. We foster a diverse and inclusive environment that stimulates creativity, drives innovation, and increases engagement. We believe **diversity**—in people, experiences, cultures, behaviors, skills, and attitudes—is a competitive advantage reflecting the society we live in. We have a robust internal program grounded in five pillars: Gender, LGBTI\+, Race, Persons with Disabilities (PcD), and 50\+, ensuring a more inclusive culture and a more diverse, representative workplace. We are a **technology** company inspired by diversity and **innovation**, providing space for everyone, supporting and embracing differences. We believe delivering the best customer experience starts with delivering a great employee experience. **\#VemPraVivo**