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Blackbaud

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1001 - 5000 employees

☁️ SaaS

🤝 Non-profit

🤝 B2B

💰 $6.5M Series A on 2000-02

SaaS • Non-profit • B2B

Blackbaud is a cloud software company that builds intelligent solutions for social impact, focusing on nonprofit organizations. It provides products and services for fundraising, donor management, engagement, and sector-specific cloud solutions to help charities, educational institutions, and other mission-driven organizations move faster and work smarter. Blackbaud also offers training, support, developer resources, a partner marketplace, and industry research through the Blackbaud Institute. The company emphasizes privacy, security, and corporate social responsibility.

📋 Description

• Define and evolve the solution architecture for the Payments Operations value stream, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and business strategy. • Establish and maintain a long-term architectural roadmap supporting end-to-end payment lifecycles including authorization, settlement, reconciliation, refunds, chargebacks, and reporting. • Drive modernization using cloud-native, API-first, and event-driven architectures to improve scalability, resiliency, and observability. • Partner with Finance, Risk, Compliance, Product, and Engineering teams to translate business and regulatory requirements into secure, scalable technical solutions. • Lead architectural design across payment gateways, billing and invoicing platforms, ERP and general ledger integrations, and financial data pipelines. • Ensure architectural alignment and dependency management across multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs). • Design highly available and fault-tolerant systems supporting mission-critical financial workflows with strict SLAs. • Guide teams in implementing auditable, idempotent transaction flows and real-time event processing. • Identify and mitigate technical and operational risks related to PCI DSS, SOX, fraud, data privacy, and financial compliance. • Participate in PI Planning, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt events to ensure architectural alignment and continuous improvement. • Collaborate with Enterprise, Cyber, and Solution Architects to ensure interoperability across adjacent value streams.

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of industry experience designing and implementing solutions. • 8+ years of experience in solution or enterprise architecture roles. • 3+ years of experience working in a SAFe environment or other scaled Agile frameworks. • SAFe® Architect Certification (or willingness to obtain). • Deep expertise in payments, billing, reconciliation, and financial operations architectures. • Experience with Integration & Event Hubs, Event Streaming & Pub/Sub, and AI orchestration. • Strong understanding of PCI DSS, SOX controls, auditability, and financial compliance requirements. • Demonstrated ability to deliver solutions meeting quality, security, availability, and operability standards.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Remote-flexible workforce • Wellness Programs • 401(k) program with employer match • Flexible paid time off • Generous Parental Leave • Donations for Doers • Pet insurance, legal and identity protection • Tuition reimbursement program