Solutions Architect (Payments)

TL;DR

Solutions Architect (Payments) (REST APIs/Financial Technology): Designing and delivering scalable payment solutions for strategic enterprise customers with an accent on pre-sales discovery, executive engagement, and end-to-end integrations. Focus on translating complex requirements into compliant architectures, developing proof of concepts, troubleshooting API interactions, and guiding successful enterprise implementations and go-lives.

Location: Sydney, Australia; approximately 10% travel is anticipated for in-person meetings.

Company

Airwallex is a global fintech company providing unified payments, financial infrastructure, business accounts, spend management, treasury, and embedded finance solutions.

What you will do

• Lead technical pre-sales discovery, RFP responses, solution design, and proof-of-concept development for strategic enterprise customers.
• Design scalable payment architectures and guide customers through technical onboarding and end-to-end integration delivery.
• Build trusted relationships with executive, business, and technical stakeholders while supporting enterprise commercial strategies.
• Troubleshoot complex API interactions and ensure implementations follow best practices for a strong developer experience.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, commercial, strategy, and marketing teams to address customer needs and identify product opportunities.
• Develop thought leadership materials, competitor studies, and technical narratives for go-to-market enablement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with strong academic achievements.
• At least 10 years of experience in a customer-facing engineering role such as Solutions Architect, Solution Consultant, or Sales Engineer within a global software enterprise or payments company.
• Strong executive engagement, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of at least one major programming language, such as PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, or Java.
• Experience integrating RESTful APIs into web applications.
• Ability to work with customers, partners, and engineering teams to develop scalable products and solutions.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of payments, financial services, or related technology.
• Ability to work independently and develop solutions under ambiguous circumstances.
• Strategic and creative thinking with a proactive approach to complex challenges.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a global team of more than 2,300 people across 27 offices.
• Opportunity to contribute to a rapidly expanding financial technology platform.
• High-impact work with strategic enterprise customers and cross-functional leadership.
• Approximately 10% travel for in-person customer and stakeholder meetings.