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Visa Usa Inc Director, Professional Services Solution Architect in Eastgate, Washington
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 Visa's Acceptance Solutions Professional Services (ASPS) solves problems and accelerates innovation and growth for merchants, acquirers, partners, and payment technology providers by providing a range of services including consulting, technology, and business transformation, developing target state architectures, customer journey mapping, solution development, product acceleration, development, testing, migration, implementation, and value realization. We are looking for a passionate, dynamic and customer focused Client Solution Architect to join Visa's Acceptance Solutions Professional Services team. The Director, Solution Architect role will report into the Sr. Director within the Acceptance Solutions Professional Services team. The ideal candidate is a motivated self-starter who can work independently in a fast paced, ambiguous environment with limited supervision, a fast learner, a highly effective communicator with strong ability to influence the solution architecture with internal stakeholders and external clients and be able to provide direction when needed to junior architects, consultants, and analysts in the project team. Job Scope Conduct workshops, identify client needs, elicit insights and drivers behind the needs, design solutions that meet the client needs considering all vectors that might impact the solution including but not limited to Visa's Acceptance Platform strategy and direction, client ecosystem, desired time-to-market, and global market applicability. Understand current state architecture, define future state vision, and target state architectures, define solutions, and build roadmap of prioritized features to meet client requirements both on and off the Visa Acceptance Platform Understands our clients' needs and business outcomes and can act as the technical champion within Visa to advocate for their clients, while mindful and respectful of competing product development priorities and backlogs, to effectively manage client expectations and delivery timeline while ensuring the feasibility of solutions by mapping components to actual existing capabilities and assets. Provides thought leadership on all payments and commerce-related matters to develop a vision for specific areas of solution with an eye toward applicability across the greater client base. Initiates solution ideation and execution to drive the creation of new solutions with CyberSource solution owners and product managers, as well as 3rd-party technology providers. Turns ideas into proof of concepts, prototypes, and technical artifacts to highlight our innovations, or to solicit client feedback on new product features or functionality. Produce Solution Documents and other artifacts that detail functional and non-functional requirements, solution design including flows, business architecture diagrams, user experience, impacted components, relative prioritization of desired feature sets, acceptance criteria etc., encompassing all relevant parts of the ecosystem of merchants, partners, and 3rd party technology providers. Partners with Product Development Systems Architects to ensure all client solutions align with long-term platform architecture strategy. Collaborates with the Client-facing teams and coordi