Senior Solutions Architect - Cards & Payments

Synechron; Dubai; On-site; AED 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Synechron in Dubai, UAE is seeking an experienced Solution Architect (Cards & Payments) to design end-to-end payment ecosystems, including card issuing, acquiring, e-commerce, and payments operations. The ideal candidate has 12+ years in payments technology, solution architecture, or presales and a track record of client-facing delivery.

You will translate business and regulatory requirements into target architectures, drive migrations with minimal live disruption, and collaborate with

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in payments technology, solution architecture, or presales, including client-facing roles.
• Proven experience designing or architecting payment platform solutions across issuing/acquiring processing and APIs.
• Experience with platform migrations or replatforming involving live production systems.
• Working knowledge of payment scheme rules, regulatory frameworks and local market considerations.

Responsibilities

• Develop end-to-end payment solution architectures spanning card issuing (debit, credit, prepaid, closed-loop, virtual) and acquiring.
• Translate client business requirements and regulatory context into a coherent target-state architecture and phased solution strategy.
• Migration & integration: assess existing client platforms and define migration, integration and interoperability approaches with minimal disruption to live operations.
• Regulatory alignment: factor in local regulatory, scheme and routing requirements as part of solution design, working with compliance and legal stakeholders.
• Strong end-to-end knowledge of payment ecosystems - card issuing, acquiring, e-commerce, and payments operations.

Skills

Payments architecture

Client-facing

Leadership

Payment platforms

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/IS

Job description

Synechron in Dubai, UAE is seeking an experienced Solution Architect (Cards & Payments) to design end-to-end payment ecosystems, including card issuing, acquiring, e-commerce, and payments operations. The ideal candidate has 12+ years in payments technology, solution architecture, or presales and a track record of client-facing delivery.

You will translate business and regulatory requirements into target architectures, drive migrations with minimal live disruption, and collaborate with