Solutions Architect – Payments Integration

About the role

A leading Swiss payments company is replacing its core outsourced payment processing platform and needs a Solutions Architect to own the integration architecture and migration path. You will own two key domains: multi-payment rails and fraud management, and act as technical lead with partner banks and payment suppliers. This is a hands-on, high-visibility role, from presenting options to the executive team to challenging engineers on integration details.

Key responsibilities

• Design how payment, fraud and banking systems connect in the new platform, using APIs and event streaming
• Lead the move away from legacy systems, uncoupling them step by step
• Own the technical relationship with external suppliers and partner banks
• Make architectural decisions within your domains and bring cross-domain topics to the architecture board
• Work with security to keep designs compliant with FINMA and PCI DSS, including threat modelling and Zero Trust principles
• Document applications and interfaces (LeanIX) and support teams working in SAFe and project setups

Required profile

• Solid background in integration or solution architecture for large distributed systems, ideally in payments, banking or insurance
• Degree in computer science or a related field
• Confident communicating with both executives and engineers
• Fluent German and English; Italian is a bonus

Required skills

• Domain-driven design, API design (REST, OpenAPI, gRPC) and event-driven systems such as Kafka
• Hybrid environments: on-premises, Kubernetes and some cloud (GCP, Azure or AWS)
• Payment processing, card/EMV or fraud detection experience is a strong plus