Director, Professional Services Solution Consulting Architect

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

Visa’s Acceptance Solutions Professional Services (ASPS) solves problems and accelerates innovation and growth for merchants, acquirers, partners, and payment technology providers by providing a range of services including consulting, technology, and business transformation, developing target state architectures, customer journey mapping, solution development, product acceleration, development, testing, migration, implementation, and value realization.

We are looking for a passionate, dynamic and customer focused Client Solution Architect to join Visa’s Acceptance Solutions Professional Services team. The Director, Solution Architect role will report into the Sr. Director within the Acceptance Solutions Professional Services team.

The ideal candidate is a motivated self-starter who can work independently in a fast paced, ambiguous environment with limited supervision, a fast learner, a highly effective communicator with strong ability to influence the solution architecture with internal stakeholders and external clients and be able to provide direction when needed to junior architects, consultants, and analysts in the project team.

Job Scope

· Conduct workshops, identify client needs, elicit insights and drivers behind the needs, design solutions that meet the client needs considering all vectors that might impact the solution including but not limited to Visa’s Acceptance Platform strategy and direction, client ecosystem, desired time-to-market, and global market applicability.

· Understand current state architecture, define future state vision, and target state architectures, define solutions, and build roadmap of prioritized features to meet client requirements both on and off the Visa Acceptance Platform

· Understands our clients’ needs and business outcomes and can act as the technical champion within Visa to advocate for their clients, while mindful and respectful of competing product development priorities and backlogs, to effectively manage client …