# Solutions Architect

**Company:** [VGS](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/vgs)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $80k – $140k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Payment Tokenization, Payment Processing, Payment Orchestration, Pci Dss, APIs, Web Services, Python, JavaScript, Java, Ruby, Webhooks, Aws Solutions Architect, 3Ds, Account Updater
**Posted:** 2026-09-03

> Designs secure, scalable payment infrastructure integrations for prospective and existing enterprise customers, translating business requirements into technical architectures and implementation plans. Requires 5+ years in solutions architecture or a related technical customer-facing field, strong payment-domain knowledge, and software engineering experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Discovery & Solution Architecture
- Conduct technical discovery with customers, Sales, and Account Management to clarify business goals, requirements, risks, and product gaps.
- Map payment flows across merchants, PSPs, processors, acquirers, card networks, wallets, and third parties.
- Architect solutions using vaulting, card management, network and agentic tokens, Account Updater, 3DS, wallet payments, account validation, and data security capabilities.
- Advise customers on payment security, PCI scope reduction, credential portability, multi-processor setups, resiliency, and scaling.
- Identify technical and commercial risks, including scope, dependencies, and ownership issues.

### Deal Support & Delivery
- Lead technical strategy for qualified opportunities from discovery through architecture approval and implementation handoff.
- Create and deliver architecture diagrams, proposals, demos, and proofs of concept.
- Lead responses for RFIs, RFPs, security reviews, and architecture assessments.
- Collaborate with customer engineers on APIs, webhooks, authentication, data models, error handling, and integrations.
- Produce detailed handoffs covering solution architecture, assumptions, responsibilities, testing, success metrics, and out-of-scope items.
- Provide technical oversight through launch to ensure implementations match approved architectures.

### Product Influence & Enablement
- Translate customer and market feedback into actionable input for the product roadmap and go-to-market strategy.
- Develop reusable reference architectures, demos, integration patterns, and enablement assets.
- Serve as a payments and technology subject matter expert in workshops, executive briefings, and industry events.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in solutions architecture, sales engineering, technical consulting, payment implementation, software engineering, or a similar technical customer-facing role.
- Experience with large-scale card or credential migrations.
- Experience with multi-PSP, payment orchestration, processor routing, or payment portability strategies.
- Background at a merchant, PSP, processor, acquirer, issuer, card network, or payment infrastructure company.
- Knowledge of PCI DSS, data security, privacy, and compliance architecture.
- Proficiency with web services and APIs and full-stack development.
- Strong communication skills, including explaining complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, creating technical solution diagrams, and presenting sales and executive-level decks.
- Ability to write production-grade code examples and reference implementations in Python, JavaScript, Java, or Ruby.
- Strong collaboration, interpersonal, negotiation, and prioritization skills.

## Nice to Have
- Experience with tokenization, payment processing, or security products.
- BA/BS degree.
- Industry certifications such as PCI QSA, Certified Payments Professional, CISSP, or AWS Solutions Architect.
- Direct experience with Visa or Mastercard network programs, including network tokenization or Account Updater services.
- Out-of-the-box thinking and comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment.

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