Solution Architect - Senior Manager, GCC Lead
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About the Role
Visa seeks a Senior Manager, Solution Architect to lead the GCC government solutions team in Riyadh. The role involves pre-sales support, co-creating innovative capabilities with partners, and developing government payment solutions using Visa's digital technologies.
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Responsibilities
- Work with dedicated VGS sales teams to support pre sales engagement with key distribution partners for Visa solutions
- Ideate and co create innovative capabilities and features with digital partners and enablers
- Support development of Government technology needs into Visa Technology requirements
- Support developing joined up solutions that leverage Visa digital technologies
- Support thought leadership on Government payment processing options
- Work closely with business partners including Risk, Client Services, Legal, Privacy, Government Engagement
- Ensure Visa solution delivery documentation is fit for purpose for Government clients
- Liaise with product owners to influence product development based on Government needs
- Prepare and manage dashboards to track ongoing projects and ensure delivery and revenue realization
Requirements
- 8+ years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 6+ years with an Advanced Degree
- 5+ years of solution architecture experience in companies serving governments
- Proven ability to translate client needs into product requirements
- 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
- Fluency in Arabic language is a must
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About Us
- Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions across more than 200 countries and territories.
Job Description
- Visa’s strategy on capturing a share of new flows focuses on Government payments as a key pillar.
- As the new VGS team, we will be leading the company efforts in developing our strategy, leverage expertise and develop comprehensive government solutions.
Responsibilities
- Work with the dedicated VGS sales teams to support the pre sales engagement with key distribution partners for Visa solutions.
- Ideate and co create innovative capabilities and features with digital partners and enablers combining Visa capabilities and partner capabilities.
- Support the development of Government technology needs or partnership integration requirements into Visa Technology requirements.
- 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.
- Support thought leadership on Government payment processing options.
- Demonstrate in depth knowledge of Visa’s capabilities.
- Work closely with business partners including Risk, Client Services, Legal, Privacy, Government Engagement.
- Ensure that Visa solution delivery documentation is fit for purpose for Government clients.
- Liaise with product owners within the global and regional Visa teams to influence product development.
- Prepare and manage dashboards to track ongoing projects and ensuring delivery and revenue realization of signed deals.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 6+ years with an Advanced Degree or at least 4 years with a PhD.
- 5+ years of solution architecture experience in companies serving governments.
- Proven ability to translate client needs into product requirements.
- 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.
- Experience in business development or partnership development in payments industry is a plus.
- Strong client and executive facing communication and interpersonal skills.
- Proven ability to work on complex and often ambiguous problems.
- Must have a mindset that embraces creativity, optimism, ambiguity and learning quickly.
- Fluency in Arabic language is a must for this position.
Workplace
- This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
- Visa requires at least 3 days in office.
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