The role of “Senior Director, Solution Architect” is part of the Client Engagement team within Visa Developer, and in Visa’s broader Innovation & Strategic Partnerships organization. This role is a member of a team that is responsible for driving the adoption and success of the Visa Platform by Visa’s key clients and partners. This client experience oriented role will be a unique combination of technology architecture and client facing relationship management skills. This role will develop a deep working knowledge of payments API technology and solution selling. This role reports to the Head of Demand Generation and Client Engagement for the Visa Platform.

They should not be afraid to get hands-on with technology teams or deep-dive into user flows with clients. In addition, he/she must be highly collaborative, bring a structured approach to client engagement and documentation, employ moderation and facilitation skills, have a passion for payments, and have an ability to communicate complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Qualifications
Have deep knowledge and passion around emerging payments technologies and their potential to change commerce. Think like, communicate with, and inspire business leaders and developers to build their new products using Visa APIs and SDKs.
Have a strong engineering or architecture background focused on Web technologies, APIs, and machine-to-machine communication over the Internet.
Be willing and able to get hands-on with technology teams or deep-dive into user flows with clients.
Be as comfortable working with an institutional developer at one of Visa’s large banking clients as with a developer at a payments startup.
Highly collaborative, bringing a structured approach to client engagements and documentation, employing moderation and facilitation skills.
Be conversant in the predominant programming languages used by our target developer communities. Be equally at home in SOAP/XML as you are in REST/JSON.
Disciplined approach to client engagement management and reporting.
10+ year track record of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree in Business,
Information Systems, Computer Science or related technical discipline is required. An MBA/MS is a plus.
Outstanding verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and interaction skills.
Independent judgment and mature decision-making skills to deal with projects that often have enterprise-wide scope and may have significant cost and time-to-market impacts.
Great time management and a passion for making commitments happen. Collaborative approach in order to seamlessly integrate activities with other teams when needed.
Financial services and/or payments processing industry experience is a plus.

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