Senior Manager, Solution Architect Open Banking and Account to Account solutions

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

What we expect of you, day to day

• Keeping up to date with product developments in Visa and industry working groups e.g. Open Banking, Digital Identity, FIDO, to ensure that the solution architecture is appropriately aligned.
• Work in a cross-functional team of product managers, propositions leads, designers, developers and project managers that are developing solutions to client / market problems.
• Lead development of the vision for the technical dimension of the solution (the “solution architecture”) by using inputs from the cross-functional team to:

• Take a user journey as a starting point and identify the “below the line” Visa and client capabilities / resources required to support that journey.
• Create sequence / collaboration / process models & diagrams that describe how those resources and capabilities work together, paying particular attention to the data items passing between tasks / activities and the roles / responsibilities of Visa and clients in making the technical dimension of the solution work.
• Translate these models and diagrams into a set of architecture user stories that can be added to the product backlog.
• Refine the stories further by leading ideation / backlog grooming sessions with the Visa / partner development teams that will implement them.   

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

• A deep knowledge of the card payment industry and Open Banking in particular.
• 5+ years’ experience of solution architecture in the Banking/card payment/Digital Identity/Open Banking industry.
• Extensive experience of being a member of teams that operate using agile working methodologies and principles; and in particular experience of creating user stories according to the INVEST methodology.
• Strong stakeholder management and negotiation skills with clients/vendors/internal teams and experience of procurement processes and contract management.
• Strong technical skills, including the ability to code to APIs and prove out the early stage technical feasibility of an architecture. Other technical skills to include, MS Office (particularly MS Visio), PowerPoint, JIRA/Wiki, EA Sparx.
• Proactive, enthusiastic and passionate about emerging technologies and trends, with extensive experience in working with developers and technical teams.
• A good understanding and willingness to apply Human Centered Design (Design Thinking, sprints, etc.) principles to your work.
• A self-starter who is able to work well in a fast-paced, fun and creative team environment but is able to work independently as well.
• A passion for solving the problems of the future through innovation, technology & design to build better businesses for the future.
• Program /project management skills would be preferred but not mandatory.

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.