Senior Manager, Solution Architecture, Visa Commercial Solutions

VISA WORLDWIDE PTE. LIMITED; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Visa’s Emerging Products and Solutions Team in Asia Pacific is shaping new payment and digital experiences by turning opportunities into scalable, secure commercial solutions. The Senior Solution Manager role focuses on translating business needs into technical designs, leading API decisions, and collaborating with Product, Technology, Client Services and Sales to drive deployment across markets.

The role is hybrid with in-office days confirmed by the hiring manager, offering exposure to

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of payments experience with ability to design and architect solutions.
• Strong payments domain knowledge to design and architect solutions and develop new use cases.
• Experience as a solution architect for complex payment use cases for large client partners.
• Ability to build and maintain strong business relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Translate business needs into scalable technical designs for commercial and digital payments.
• Lead API and integration decisions and use AI tools to improve development.
• Develop technical requirements, functional specs, architecture diagrams and pilot criteria.
• Design APIs and interfaces using Visa platforms where appropriate.
• Partner with Product, Technology, Client Services and Sales to address risks.
• Support pre-sales activities through technical discovery and proposals.
• Conduct testing and pilots, incorporating feedback for improvements.
• Transition solutions to deployment and scale with production teams.
• Manage multiple initiatives with clear progress updates.

Skills

Payments domain knowledge

Solution architecture

Stakeholder relationship management

Analytical thinking / systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Payment APIs

Job description

About Us
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Job Description

TeamSummary

Visa’s Emerging Products and Solutions Team in Asia Pacific is part of Visa Commercial Solutions (VCS), within the broader Commercial and Money Movement Solutions (CMS)organisation. The team provides solution architecture and digital solutioning support across Visa’s ecosystem, working with issuers, acquirers, group service providers, merchants, e-commerce enablers, wallet providers, IoT partners and third-party payment processors.

The team works closely with cross-functional stakeholders across Product, Technology, Client Services, Risk,Salesand the markets, as well as directly with clients and partners. Its role is to translate business needs into scalable solutions, from discovery and architecture through pilot,implementationand production readiness.

This role will support the development and enablement of emerging VCS solutions by bringing together customers, industryparticipantsand internal stakeholders. The successful candidate will help turn new opportunities into intuitive,secureand scalable commercial solutions that can be adopted across clients,marketsand business verticals.

This is an opportunity to join a high-performing team focused on shaping new payment and digital experiences and bringing practical, differentiated solutions to market.

WhataSenior Solution Managerdoes at Visa:

• Combine strong solution architecture skills with a practical understanding of commercial and digital payments. The successful candidate will be able to translate business requirements into scalable technical designs, lead API and integration decisions, and use approved AI tools to improve the quality and speed of solution development.

• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions for commercial and digital payments.

• Develop technical requirements, functional specifications, architecturediagramsand pilot success criteria.

• Design APIs and technical interfaces, using existing Visa platforms and capabilities whereverappropriate.

• Use approved AI tools to support solution development, documentation,prototypingand testing.

• Partner with Product, Technology, Client Services and Sales to develop solutions and address technical risks.

• Support pre-sales activities through technical discovery, solutionproposalsand client discussions.

• Conduct testing and pilot activities, incorporating feedback to improve the solution.

• Transition completed solutions to implementation and support teams for production deployment and scale.

• Manage multiple initiatives and provide clear updates on progress, decisions,risksand dependencies.

Projectsyou will be a part of:

VisaCommercialSolutions is poised for growth as we embark on initiatives to drive new flows through specific vertical solutions including virtual cards, mobilecapabilitiesand other payment solutions.By working with our Issuers clients, partners, as well as both local and regional Visa teams, this role brings exciting opportunities for individuals looking for a challenging,innovativeandfast-pacedenvironment where solutions are new and potentiallygroundbreaking.You will get a holistic experience across research, product development, partner engagement,commercializationand sales. The solutions you build will not be client specific but scaled for an entire vertical ecosystem inAP.

This is a hybrid position with expectations for in-office days confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

What you will need:

• Minimum 10 years ofstrongpaymentsexperience,ability to designandarchitectsolutions,a strong payments domainknowledgeto be able to design and architect solutions,develop new use cases for customers and have a strong understanding of technical integrations for payments platforms

• Experience as a solution architectforcomplexpayment related use cases for large client partners;managing requirementsof various payment playerstobuildpayment tie-ups and prescribing simple workflows to make more convenient and simpler

• Ability to apply understanding of systems and processes coupled with analytical ability to solution architect complex projects involving interfaces between various systems within organization

• Ability to build andmaintainstrong business relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

What will also help:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

• Expert knowledge ofexisting and emergingAgenticAPI technologies and systems used in payments, mobile and e-commerce, authentication, 4-party payment model,authorizationand clearing process, near field communication (NFC) and tokenization while keeping step with market developments

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.