Payments Solution Architect

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Payments Solution Architect based in Switzerland. This is a strategic and hands-on role at the intersection of digital payments, financial technology, and quality engineering. You will shape and scale payment testing solutions for complex, enterprise-grade transaction environments. The role combines technical architecture, commercial strategy, client advisory, and delivery leadership. You will design offerings, methodologies, staffing models, and pricing while solving sophisticated payment-quality challenges. Working closely with clients, sales, delivery teams, and technology partners, you will influence high-impact business opportunities. You will also help define the future of payments testing through thought leadership, innovation, and industry engagement. This is an opportunity to make a measurable difference to digital experiences used by millions of people worldwide. Shape the payments offering: Define, launch, package, and continuously evolve payment testing services, including the offering catalog, methodologies, staffing approaches, and pricing models. Set strategic direction: Develop and communicate a forward-looking vision for payments testing, identifying market opportunities, competitive trends, and innovative approaches that can expand the business. Drive commercial growth: Partner with sales teams on enterprise opportunities, participate in client conversations, advise prospects on payments testing strategies and ROI, and contribute expertise to pipeline development. Build strategic partnerships: Work with alliances teams and external technology, payments, commerce, and consulting partners to develop joint go-to-market opportunities. Design technical solutions: Analyze complex digital transaction architectures and create tailored quality engineering strategies for mobile payments, wallets, payment gateways, online banking, POS systems, and emerging agentic payment environments. Provide hands-on delivery expertise: Act as a senior subject-matter expert and escalation point, supporting engagements from initial scoping through test execution and delivery reviews. Resolve complex technical challenges: Troubleshoot payment integrations and quality-engineering roadblocks while protecting transaction integrity, security, compliance, and reliability across markets and payment instruments. Elevate client and delivery capabilities: Introduce new technical approaches, methodologies, and best practices to help delivery teams and enterprise clients improve their payments testing maturity. Lead thought leadership: Represent the payments testing vision through white papers, articles, webinars, conference presentations, industry discussions, and other external communications. Influence without direct authority: Inspire and coordinate distributed, cross-functional teams while building strong relationships with technical specialists, business leaders, clients, and partners. Requirements: 10+ years of deep payments experience , with strong knowledge of digital payment ecosystems such as mobile payments, online banking, payment gateways, digital wallets, and point-of-sale systems. Strong quality engineering expertise , including a technical understanding of API integrations, software development methodologies, and testing practices within financial or transaction-heavy environments. Proven solution architecture and troubleshooting skills , with the ability to analyze complex transaction flows, identify integration issues, and establish structured evaluation criteria. Client-facing consulting or managed-services experience , ideally involving technical discovery, solution design, advisory work, and engagement with enterprise stakeholders. Commercial and strategic acumen , including experience developing service offerings, understanding cost-to-serve considerations, and collaborating with sales, alliances,