Sr Manager - Solution Architect - Gcc Lead

Visa Visa · Fintech · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia

Visa is seeking a Sr. Manager, Solution Architect for their Government Payments team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role involves supporting pre-sales engagements, co-creating innovative capabilities with partners, and developing comprehensive government solutions by leveraging Visa's digital technologies. The candidate will work with business partners, influence product development, and manage project dashboards. Fluency in Arabic is a must.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work with the dedicated VGS sales teams to support the pre sales engagement with key distribution partners for Visa solutions (issuers, enablers, service providers), gaining deeper understanding of government needs, priorities and use cases to support the sell in cycle.
  2. Ideate and co-create innovative capabilities and features with digital partners and enablers combining Visa capabilities and partner capabilities to test new use cases, product features and recommended deployment approaches using a digital-first mindset and the contemporary product management techniques of digital native companies (e.g., human centered design, minimum viable product, rapid prototyping, etc.
  3. Support the development of Government technology needs or partnership integration requirements into Visa Technology requirements for prioritization, scoping and build
  4. Support developing joined up solutions that leverage Visa digital technologies including VisaNet, CyberSource, Visa Secure, Tokenisation, Click to Pay, Visa Risk Manager, Visa Developer Consumer Control APIs etc.
  5. Support thought leadership on Government payment processing options that blend Visa and partner capabilities with broad government agendas and national payments infrastructure.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 6+ years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/MBA/JD/MD) or at least 4 years of work experience with a PhD
  • 5+ years of solution architecture experience in companies serving governments.
  • Proven ability to translate client needs into product requirements by adapting existing products and solutions
  • High degree of competence in RESTful APIs, various architecture patterns, API and SDK integration, mobile/web application development, RTP payment architecture and Open Banking exposure
  • Design thinking product development methodology experience
  • Strong client and executive-facing communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence multiple stakeholders across a matrixed environment
  • Proven ability to work on complex and often ambiguous problems, to drive results.
  • Must have a mindset that embraces creativity, optimism, ambiguity and learning quickly.
  • Product person at heart
  • Fluency in Arabic language is a must for this position

Nice to have

  • technology and ideally pre-sales experience in one or more of the following industries - retail banking, payments, technology, consulting.
  • Experience in business development or partnership development in payments industry is a plus.

What the JD emphasized

  • Fluency in Arabic language is a must for this position