job summary:
Our West Michigan Client has a long term contract opportunity for a Domain Architect with payments experience. This is a remote role for some in EST or CST time zones.
location: Telecommute
job type: Contract
salary: $65 - 100 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
Domain Ownership Own the domain's architecture, technical roadmap, and key decisions
Define domain boundaries, domain model, and shared vocabulary
Decide which service or workflow owns each business operation
Write ARB-ready specs and ADRs
Architecture & Design Design idempotent, exactly-once operations (sagas, compensation, outbox/inbox, reconciliation)
Define API and event contracts with peer domains (OpenAPI, JSON Schema, Protobuf)
Establish trust boundaries: who computes data, who validates it, and what consumers can rely on
Workflows & Messaging Build durable workflows on Temporal, including Nexus cross-domain calls
Set versioning standards for long-running workflows (patching, build IDs, replay testing)
Design Kafka domain events with schema governance, retries, and dead-letter queues
Payments Architect payment workflows across the order lifecycle: create, edit, cancel, finalize, refund
Design multi-tender orchestration across credit/debit, EBT SNAP, and EBT WIC
Architect processor and benefit-provider integrations: auth, capture, void, refund, reversal
Handle gateway timeouts and unknown outcomes without double-charging or leaving ghost charges
Ensure EBT SNAP and WIC compliance with USDA FNS and state program rules
Lead PCI DSS scope reduction, tokenization (network tokens, DPAN), encryption, and key rotation
Extend the domain to new tenders such as Apple Pay, Google Pay, and split tender
Support 3P marketplace payments: multi-capture, over-capture rules, and split settlement
Partner with Finance on reconciliation, TLOG reporting, and general-ledger accuracy
Define payment SLOs: auth rate, capture success, refund success, and compensation failures
Reliability & Quality Build resilience with Polly and Temporal retry policies
Keep payment authorization well within checkout timeout budgets across Azure and Google Cloud Platform
Instrument tracing across HTTP, Kafka, and Temporal with OpenTelemetry
Set the testing strategy: unit, contract, replay, gateway simulation, and load
Leadership Review production code and mentor senior engineers
Lead feature-flagged migrations off legacy paths
Use AI coding agents and context engineering to speed up delivery
qualifications:
Must-Have
10+ years engineering, 5+ years building payment systems
Domain-driven design: bounded contexts, domain events, context mapping
Expert C# / .NET 8+ and still codes
Temporal (preferred) or similar durable workflow engine in production
Kafka in production
Azure PaaS: App Service, Cosmos DB, APIM, Key Vault --> similar technology on Google Cloud Platform
Containerization, running code in Kubernetes
Idempotency, saga, and reconciliation patterns in production
PCI DSS and tokenization
OpenTelemetry or APM observability design
Track record of aligning multiple teams on a shared architecture
Nice-to-Have
Temporal Nexus or Worker Versioning
EBT SNAP / WIC processing
Digital wallets: Apple Pay, Google Pay
Gateway APIs: Aurus, Adyen, Fiserv, Worldpay, Chase
Network tokens, DPAN, multi-capture, marketplace split settlement
Multi-cloud: Azure + Google Cloud Platform
LaunchDarkly-driven migrations
.NET Aspire, Testcontainers, Mockoon/WireMock
Retail finance feeds (TLOG, sales audit, GL)
Grocery/omnichannel retail
Google Cloud Platform experience
skills:
.NET,Kafka,APIM,API,APIs,Azure PaaS,C#,Nexus,Containerization,Cosmos DB,Domain-driven,domain model,Google Cloud Platform,Google Pay,JSON,Key Vault,Kubernetes,versioning,Azure,Multi-cloud,OpenAPI,PCI DSS,payment systems,production code,Protobuf,testing strategy,point of contact,resilience,Reliability,Architecture & Design,architecture,audit,budgets,Retail finance,prototype,encryption,debit,Worldpay,general ledger,Finance,vocabulary,tender,tenders,mentor,omnichannel,payment processors,retail,sales,simulation,Pricing,technical direction,OpenTelemetry,workflows
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