Solution Architect, VCA Implementation Services, 24-Month Fixed-Term

Team Summary 

Visa 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. 

Our 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. 

We are seeking a Solution Architect to join one of our banking clients in Auckland on a 24-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. 

Role Summary & Responsibilities 

You 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. 

Highlights of your role include: 

• Drive 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. 

• Develop and implement API strategies and event-driven integrations to support extensibility and interoperability across platforms. 

• Architect end-to-end solutions for payments innovation, fraud-prevention and loyalty, with a focus on scalability, security, and compliance. 

• Present and champion architectural designs within governance forums, ensuring traceability and alignment to enterprise architecture principles, while remaining open to feedback to continuously improve solutions. 

• Foster collaboration across technology and business teams to maximise reuse and accelerate delivery of high-impact solutions. 

• Translate business requirements into solution options and provide the recommendations. 

• Produce high quality architecture artefacts including but not limited to diagrams, interface design and architecture decision records etc. 

• Collaborate 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.