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Progress starts with you.\nJob Description\nTeam Summary\nVisa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) is Visa's advisory division, working with Visa's clients on a broad range of key business initiatives including strategy, operational optimisation, customer engagement and overall business profitability.\nOur Implementation Services squads are embedded at client sites leading long-term engagements and delivering value primarily through implementation and execution services. We deliver objectives from a shared value agenda but are also closely connected to the broader VCA team, sharing knowledge, and bringing the best of Visa to the client.\nWe are seeking a Solution Architect to join one of our banking clients in Auckland on a24-month fixed-term contract. In this embedded role, you’ll be a part of our client’s cross-disciplined architecture team, supporting the multiple tech squads dedicated to digital initiatives benefiting Visa cardholders, designing and implement technology solutions to support the delivery of business goals.\nRole Summary & Responsibilities\nYou will be a key driver in our client’s tech programme for Cards experiences, responsible for designing and delivering secure, scalable, and compliant solutions that enable seamless customer experiences. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect innovative systems across different workstreams of the programme, covering payments innovation, fraud prevention and loyalty, leveraging modern technologies and best practices to support the bank’s strategic objectives.\nHighlights of your role include:\nDrive architectural design for strategic digital initiatives in our client's Cards programme, working within their established governance frameworks to ensure solutions align with enterprise standards and business goals.\n\nDevelop and implement API strategies and event-driven integrations to support extensibility and interoperability across platforms.\n\nArchitect end-to-end solutions for payments innovation, fraud-prevention and loyalty, with a focus on scalability, security, and compliance.\n\nPresent and champion architectural designs within governance forums, ensuring traceability and alignment to enterprise architecture principles, while remaining open to feedback to continuously improve solutions.\n\nFoster collaboration across technology and business teams to maximise reuse and accelerate delivery of high-impact solutions.\n\nTranslate business requirements into solution options and provide the recommendations.\n\nProduce high quality architecture artefacts including but not limited to diagrams, interface design and architecture decision records etc.\n\nCollaborate closely with engineering leads in the programme, working together to bridge the gap from solution architecture to detailed designs, providing the technical leadership to ensure architectures are realised and are deliverable.\n\nQualifications\nKey Requirements\nExtensive experience in financial services architecture, ideally within the cards domain and customer-facing digital experiences.\n\nDemonstrated ability to operate within established enterprise architecture governance frameworks, navigating decision processes collaboratively.\n\nProven expertise in designing enterprise solutions using APIs (Java Microservice), Gateways (Kong gateway), event streaming (Kafka).\n\nDeep understanding of API security including Network security, Gateways, OAuth TLS, encryption etc.\n\nUnderstanding of API Mesh and Event Mesh and other loosely coupled and decoupled integration patterns.\n\nUnderstanding of digital channels and their integrations including Mobile apps and web app and third party integrations.\n\nStrong stakeholder engagement at multiple levels. Demonstrated ability to influence, collaborate and negotiate with stakeholders to inform their decision making.\n\nUnderstanding of identity, CIAM and digital security.\n\nAbility to solve a complex business problem with a pragmatic solution.\n\nDesirable\nHands-on experience with modern cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).\n\nFamiliarity with BIAN standards and API governance. Interest in modern data architectures.\n\nHighly aware of cybersecurity threats, Identity, and security standards and technologies\n\nExposure to open banking, digital identity verification (eKYC), and Agile delivery methodologies.\n\nExperience with the container technologies and container orchestration platform (e.g. Kubernetes, Openshift, EKS and AKS)\n\nRelevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, AWS Certified Solutions Architect).\n\nNote, you’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. If you have most of the skills required and this role sounds exciting to you, we'd love to hear from you!\nVisa is an EEO Employer\nQualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. 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