Director, Solution Architect, Global Growth Initiatives

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid work with at least 3 days in the office

Company

hirify.global is a global payments technology company connecting consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and governments through digital payment infrastructure.

What you will do

• Design scalable government growth platforms, commercial solution frameworks, reusable architecture patterns, integration approaches, and deployment models.
• Lead technical feasibility, implementation complexity, risk, and scale-readiness assessments for strategic opportunities.
• Shape solution architectures, ecosystem models, go-to-market approaches, and partner pathways for government propositions.
• Combine hirify.global products, Value Added Services, and partner capabilities into cross-capability solutions.
• Create reference architectures, solution patterns, and deployment playbooks for reuse across markets.
• Support lighthouse deployments, define technical success criteria, and influence future platform and product direction.

Requirements

• 10+ years of work experience with a bachelor’s degree, 8+ years with an advanced degree, or 3+ years with a PhD.
• Significant experience in solution architecture, pre-sales, technical consulting, payments, fraud and risk, digital identity, cybersecurity, or government technology.
• Experience combining technical architecture expertise with commercialisation and go-to-market thinking.
• Proven ability to translate client needs into scalable solution designs and product requirements.
• Strong understanding of APIs, integration patterns, ecosystems, SaaS platforms, cloud architectures, and modern digital infrastructure.
• Experience with governments, regulated industries, or large public-sector programmes.
• Experience supporting strategic partnerships, evaluating partner capabilities, designing ecosystem-led solutions, and working with systems integrators, GovTechs, and multi-party delivery models.
• Strong communication, presentation, stakeholder-management, problem-solving, and ambiguity-navigation skills.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams in complex matrix environments and lead initiatives across multiple stakeholders and geographies.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement with at least 3 days in the office, with exact expectations confirmed by the Hiring Manager.
• Work across global and regional teams, governments, partners, product, technology, risk, advisory, and regional stakeholders.
• Opportunity to contribute to financial inclusion, digital payments, fraud prevention, digital identity, AI-enabled government services, and resilient public infrastructure.
• Employment with hirify.global as an equal opportunity employer.