Senior Manager, Solutions Architect, Visa Government Solutions (Payments)

Location: Sydney, Australia. Hybrid role with at least 3 days per week in the office; exact office-day expectations will be confirmed by the Hiring Manager.

Company

hirify.global is a global payments technology company serving consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories.

What you will do

• Partner with Sales to provide pre-sales solutioning for priority government opportunities across Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands.
• Lead end-to-end solution architecture by combining hirify.global products, platforms, and ecosystem capabilities into scalable government payment solutions.
• Assess technical feasibility, dependencies, implementation readiness, scalability, and solution-market fit.
• Co-create solutions with ecosystem partners using human-centred design, MVP approaches, and rapid prototyping.
• Contribute solution expertise to go-to-market strategies, market roadmaps, and commercialisation plans across cross-functional teams.
• Adapt global solution architectures, tools, and playbooks to regional requirements and identify product and capability gaps.

Requirements

• 8 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree, or 6 years with an Advanced Degree, or 4 years with a PhD.
• 5+ years of experience in solution architecture, solution engineering, technical consulting, or a related client-facing solutioning role.
• Strong pre-sales and solution-design experience translating complex client needs into viable architectures, capability requirements, and implementation approaches.
• Strong knowledge of digital and payments architecture, including APIs, SDK integration, platform and application integration, mobile and web technologies, and payment infrastructure.
• Experience combining proprietary products and platforms with third-party or ecosystem-partner capabilities.
• Ability to evaluate technical feasibility, integration dependencies, implementation considerations, and scalability.
• Proficiency in applying AI tools to research, analysis, solution development, documentation, and other workflows with appropriate judgement and validation.
• Strong client- and executive-facing communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts and influence stakeholders in a matrixed organisation.
• Ability to navigate complex and ambiguous problems, balance commercial and technical considerations, and drive solutions toward execution.

Nice to have

• Experience with real-time payments, Open Banking or Open Finance, digital identity, or digital platforms.
• Experience with human-centred design, MVP, rapid prototyping, or similar solution-development approaches.
• Experience working with governments or public-sector clients, government payments, digital government, or national payments infrastructure.
• Experience in ecosystem partnership development or commercial solutioning within payments or technology.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a global hirify.global Government Solutions team and cross-functional groups including Sales, Product, Client Services, Risk, Legal, Privacy, and Government Engagement.
• Hybrid working arrangement requiring at least 3 office days per week.
• Opportunity to develop solutions with regional impact across Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands.