Payments Solutions Architect & Strategy Lead

Jobgether; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote work

Flexible paid time off

Stock options

Learning stipend ($300 annual)

Inclusive, purpose-driven culture

Global client exposure

Thought leadership opportunities

Job summary

Partner Company in the Netherlands is seeking a Payments Solution Architect to shape and scale payments testing solutions across enterprise environments. The role combines technical architecture, client advisory, and delivery leadership in a fully remote, globally distributed setting.

You will design offerings, staffing, and pricing while solving sophisticated payment-quality challenges and influencing high-impact opportunities with clients, sales, and technology partners.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of deep payments experience.
• Strong quality engineering expertise.
• Proven solution architecture and troubleshooting skills.
• Client-facing consulting or managed-services experience.
• Commercial and strategic acumen.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong leadership and influencing capabilities.
• Master's degree preferred.
• Experience with payments innovation or agentic payment systems advantageous.
• Comfortable working in a fully remote, globally distributed environment.

Responsibilities

• Shape the payments offering: Define, launch, package, and continuously evolve payment testing services, including the offering catalog, methodologies, staffing approaches, and pricing models.
• Set strategic direction: Develop and communicate a forward-looking vision for payments testing, identifying market opportunities, competitive trends, and innovative approaches.
• Drive commercial growth: Partner with sales teams on enterprise opportunities, participate in client conversations, advise prospects on payments testing strategies and ROI.
• Build strategic partnerships: Work with alliances teams and external technology, payments, commerce, and consulting partners to develop joint go-to-market opportunities.
• Design technical solutions: Analyze complex digital transaction architectures and create tailored quality engineering strategies for mobile payments, wallets, payment gateways, online banking, POS systems, and agentic payment environments.
• Provide hands‑on delivery expertise: Act as a senior subject‑matter expert and escalation point, supporting engagements from scoping through test execution and delivery reviews.
• Resolve complex technical challenges: Troubleshoot payment integrations and quality‑engineering roadblocks while protecting transaction integrity, security, compliance, and reliability across markets.
• Elevate client and delivery capabilities: Introduce new technical approaches and best practices to help delivery teams improve payments testing maturity.
• Lead thought leadership: Represent the payments testing vision through white papers, webinars, and industry engagements.
• Influence without direct authority: Coordinate distributed teams and build relationships with technical specialists, business leaders, clients, and partners.

Skills

Payments domain expertise

Quality engineering

Solution architecture

Client-facing consulting

Commercial & strategic acumen

Leadership without authority

Communication skills

Systems thinking

Problem solving

Continuous learning mindset

Education

Master's degree in Finance/CS/SE or related

Job description

Partner Company in the Netherlands is seeking a Payments Solution Architect to shape and scale payments testing solutions across enterprise environments. The role combines technical architecture, client advisory, and delivery leadership in a fully remote, globally distributed setting.

You will design offerings, staffing, and pricing while solving sophisticated payment-quality challenges and influencing high-impact opportunities with clients, sales, and technology partners.