Specialist Solutions Architect, Payments

Responsibilities

• Lead complex enterprise customer engagements from discovery through solution design, implementation planning, and measurement of business impact across Managed Payments, Adaptive Pricing, OCS, and local payment methods.
• Advise customers on scalable payments architecture, including payment orchestration, multi-currency flows, cards, wallets, local payment methods, fraud and risk systems, and money-movement rails.
• Conduct discovery with business and technical stakeholders, develop solution scopes and reference architectures, and guide trade-offs across conversion, authorization, cost, risk, customer experience, and implementation complexity.
• Provide APAC regional market insight, including cross-border and local payment-method considerations, to customers, sales teams, and product and engineering organizations.
• Scale organizational impact through reusable APAC assets, customer workshops, coaching on strategic opportunities, and collaboration with teams and customers across the region.
• Travel approximately 25% as needed.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in payments, fintech, financial services, or a related technology industry, including designing payment solutions or financial architectures for enterprise customers.
• Deep knowledge of payment flows and payments architecture, including cards, wallets, local payment methods, multi-currency payments, payment orchestration, fraud and risk systems, money movement, and relevant ISO payment standards.
• Experience advising large B2B and/or B2C enterprises on payment modernization, checkout optimization, conversion and authorization improvement, cost optimization, network compliance, or processing reliability.
• Strong understanding of the APAC payments landscape and cross-border payment considerations.
• Strong project management, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Professional fluency in English and Business Mandarin for business and technical conversations across Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and Greater China.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Stripe or integrating RESTful APIs into web or mobile applications.
• Experience with Optimized Checkout, payment orchestration, adaptive payment routing, or checkout-conversion optimization.
• Experience with online payments, marketplaces, subscriptions, platforms, or multi-party money movement.
• Experience in pre-sales, solutions architecture, technical consulting, or a payments-specialist role.
• Experience building a new regional function, creating repeatable operating practices, or succeeding as an early in-region hire within a globally distributed organization.