• Manage a team of intermediate and senior Solutions Architects across Central & Eastern Europe UK, setting clear direction and enabling high-quality execution. • Act as a player-coach by partnering directly on strategic opportunities, building executive relationships, and coaching your team through complex sales cycles to help secure the technical win. • Guide regional strategy for technical evaluations, workshops, demonstrations, and proof-of-concept engagements, ensuring customer needs are translated into meaningful technical and business outcomes. • Work cross-functionally with global Solutions Architecture, Sales, Channel, Marketing, Sales Enablement, and Product Management to align on priorities and execute against regional goals. • Manage dotted-line relationships with Channel Solutions Architects and subject matter experts, driving accountability, collaboration, and alignment around common goals. • Maintain strong operational discipline across workload planning, resource allocation, headcount planning, opportunity forecasting, and field execution. • Define and track key performance indicators for the team, communicating progress, risks, and priorities clearly to your team, peers, and senior stakeholders. • Hire, develop, and retain high-performing Solutions Architects while strengthening team capability, encouraging innovation, and building a scalable regional organization for future growth.

• The Architect owns the decision making around high-level design choices and dictates technical standards, including software coding standards, tools, and platforms. • The ideal candidate will thrive in a collaborative environment and be engaged in the development process.

Role Description As a Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for taking the business requirements and turning them into a software design that can become a blueprint for the implementation team to follow. You will also ensure that the implementation team follows the design and delivers the project as per the agreed designs. - Participate in the presales, user experience design, sprint, development, and delivery phases of a project. - Review the overall proposal. - Provide valuable input and review the wireframes from a technical standpoint during user experience design. - Produce necessary artifacts to provide the team with direction before the actual development work starts. - Provide the development team with a Solutions Design Document. - Ensure that the design is followed during the development phase and document any changes in the design. - Review the work produced by the development team. - Provide necessary training to developers and be the sole go-to person for stakeholders and the team on all technical matters. Qualifications - Master's or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from a local or foreign reputable university. - 10+ years of hands-on experience, preferably as a full stack developer in multiple technologies. - Minimum of 4 years of experience making important architecture & design decisions, such as data domain modeling, application of design patterns, and design using third-party components. - Ability to work in a team in a diverse/multiple stakeholder environment. - Proven experience in engineering and software architecture design. - In-depth understanding of coding languages, sound knowledge of various operating systems and databases. - Strong organizational and leadership skills. Requirements - Superior communication skills to effectively communicate with stakeholders, project managers, developers, and software vendors involved in the software development process. - Project and resource management skills to ensure that project resources are being used efficiently and impactfully. - Technical skills and hands-on experience across all major areas of the software development process as well as hardware engineering expertise for software projects that rely on hardware. - Ability to analyze and identify potential short and long-term risks that may cause technical issues and impede business operations in the future.

Title: Associate Application Solutions Engineer Location: United States Job Description: Reports to: Technical Architect, Cloud Services Department: TRG Location: Remote Grade: 15 About Priority: Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. is a leading financial technology company on a mission to deliver a personalized, easy-to-adopt financial toolset that accelerates cash flow and optimizes working capital for businesses. Our vision is to eliminate the barriers to unlocking revenue - empowering businesses to grow faster and operate smarter. We achieve this through the Priority Commerce Engine, an innovative platform that combines payables, acquiring, and banking and treasury solutions. This unified approach allows businesses to streamline financial operations, reduce unnecessary costs, and uncover new revenue opportunities. At Priority, we're driven by results. We expect our people to be known for results - bringing expertise, momentum, and relentless focus to every challenge, helping our clients and each other thrive. About the Role: We are looking for a skilled Associate Application Solutions Engineer to join our Application Solutions team to support our rapid growth. As part of a dynamic global team, you will play a crucial role in providing and maintaining our technology infrastructure to cater to the evolving demands of the business. As an Associate Application Solutions Engineer, you will be responsible for owning the resolution of product issues throughout their entire life cycle and effectively communicating with various stakeholders. Your focus will be on maintaining process adherence and delivering high-quality output. Success in this role requires exceptional teamwork skills and self-motivation, allowing you to carry out your duties with minimal supervision. This position is full-time and offers the flexibility of being fully remote. Responsibilities: - Work in production support shifts and off hour production emergencies. - Monitoring the production environment and ensuring smooth functioning. - Develop complex queries for analysis, monitoring and report generation. - Analyze and identify root cause and resolve technical problems by understanding business operations, product features, and technical solutions. - Automate scheduled production processes. - Test and control the changes applied to test and production environments. - Document all processes, as appropriate. - Perform level of effort estimates for assigned tasks and change orders. - Work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors. - This role will require evening support and holiday time, but employees are made aware of their schedule weeks in advance. What Success Looks Like: Success in an Associate Application Solutions Engineer role typically means demonstrating both technical proficiency and collaborative problem-solving within a customer or internal solutions context. - Quickly gains proficiency in the company's applications, systems architecture, and integration frameworks. - Demonstrates the ability to configure, test, and deploy application solutions accurately and efficiently. - Contributes to successful implementation of application solutions that meet client or business requirements. - Ensures solutions are delivered with minimal defects and within agreed timelines. - Partners effectively with senior engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders to understand requirements. - Participates actively in code reviews, stand-ups, and team retrospectives. Candidate Requirements: Required: - Minimum of Associate's degree (A.A.) or equivalent from two-year College or technical school; or six months to one-year related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience. - Experience with utilizing REST APIs - Proven experience with setting and achieving challenging goals - Previous examples of demonstrating persistence and overcoming obstacles as well as taking calculated risks to accomplish goals Preferred: - Ability to balance team and individual responsibilities; exhibits objectivity and openness to others' views; gives and welcomes feedback; contributes to building a positive team spirit; puts success of team above own interests; able to build morale and group commitments to goals and objectives; supports everyone's efforts to succeed. - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; looks for ways to improve and promote quality; applies feedback to improve performance; monitors own work to ensure quality. - Basic understanding of MySQL/SQL Server/Oracle database programming/administration. Strong desire to grow his/her career in the technology space. Work Environment & Culture: We believe that performance and experience go hand in hand - an exceptional employee experience is earned through contribution. We are a results-driven team, grounded in our core values: ownership, authenticity, service, trust, innovation, and camaraderie. Our culture is built for those who want to make an impact. We challenge each other to grow, celebrate progress, and support one another through shared goals and real connection. Whether you're building technology, serving clients, or supporting internal teams, you'll be part of a company that empowers you to perform at your best and be known for results. Compensation and Benefits: Compensation range: $60,000-$65,000 We invest in the whole employee - personally and professionally. Our benefits package is designed to support your well-being, growth, and success - both inside and outside of work. Financial Wellness - Bonus programs - 401(k) match - Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) - HSA and FSA options - Financial wellness resources and employee discount programs Health & Well-being - Medical, dental, and vision coverage - Mental health support for employees and dependents through Lyra Health - Family planning and women's health benefits through Carrot - Gym membership reimbursement and virtual wellness programs (including yoga) Time Off - 3 weeks PTO to start, with unlimited PTO after year one Growth & Development - Education expense reimbursement - Leadership development programs - Certified Payments Professional (CPP) certification support We believe great performance starts with feeling supported - and we've built our benefits with that in mind. Traditional Physical Requirements: - Requires prolonged sitting, standing, bending, stooping and stretching. - Requires the ability to lift 10 pounds. - Requires eye-hand coordination, manual dexterity and a normal range of hearing and vision (with or without correction). Join our team at Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. and be part of a dynamic and innovative company that is transforming the financial technology landscape. Together, we can shape the future of payments and banking solutions while providing unmatched value to our clients.