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Visa B2B Connect is an innovative multilateral payment network, offering banks an alternative cross-border solution that can address the unpredictability associated with the current cross-border payment flows. The Visa B2B Connect Product team is part of the innovative New Payments Flows group within Visa. This role supports bank enablement globally.

The Solution Design Consultant will play a critical role in the development of this rapidly growing business. Working as part of fast growing team and supported by strong strategy, global product and technology teams, this individual will be responsible for providing consultancy services to our banks to define and validate the overall integration design with the objective of driving significant growth for the Visa B2B Connect business. This role will have additional responsibilities in supporting bank engagements from pre-sales through implementation as well.

The role has direct responsibility for the enablement of our banks. This individual must possess a unique combination of technical skill, deep understanding of international wire payments, traditional SWIFT messaging, modern ISO 20022 messaging and bank payment systems. Of critical importance, this candidate must possess creative problem-solving skills to help our banks to find the “right fit” for each implementation to balance our bank’s speed-to-market goals with the overall soundness of the design.

Essential Functions:

• Lead collaboration sessions with our banks, their technology partners and other FinTech’s to create the solution that best meets the customer’s needs by factoring in not only technical requirements, but business requirements, cost, and time-to-market concerns.
• Lead strategically significant engagements with banks, internal product, engineering critical to the success of Visa B2B Connect
• Drive definition of technical solutions that meet bank and Visa objectives
• Create and present high-level solution designs based on implementation requirements, Visa B2B Connect implementation standards and bank or partner system/process interactions.
• Work closely with internal Sales, Product and Implementation teams throughout the pre-sales, solution design and implementation phases to help propose and validate the overall integration design and provide general subject matter expertise to these engagements.
• Contribute to the overall B2B Connect development lifecycle by helping to identify opportunities to improve how we integrate with banks and their technology partners and help inform the general roadmap
• Independent day- to-day working, self-directed based on a sound understanding of overall strategy

Basic Qualifications:

• 8 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 5 or more years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:

• 9+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3+years of experience with a PhD
• 5+ years professional experience in an Engineering and/or Technical Product role with client engagement experience for modern payment product technologies and services
• Ability to balance complex mix of interpersonal skills, technical proficiency, and business acumen to drive desired outcomes
• Significant experience in the international payments sector
• Passion for the future of payments
• Knowledge of predominant payment schemes in use globally (i.e., ACH, RTP, RTGS, etc.)
• Solid understanding of both modern (e.g. APIs, RTP, ISO 20022, etc.) and traditional (e.g., SFTP/FTPS, IBM MQ, ISO 15022, etc.) payments industry technologies and standards.
• Significant experience simplifying the complex and removing business and technical barriers to execution
• Driven, resilient, with attention to detail and positive under pressure
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, both written and verbal

Travel Requirements:

This position requires the incumbent to travel for work up to 10% of the time
 

Physical Requirements

This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers, and reach with hands and arms.

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.  Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.