Visa

Director, Solution Architecture - Rewards & Benefits Platforms, China

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23 hours ago
Beijing, ChinaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead discovery with product, benefits, client-facing, and operations teams to clarify user journeys, business rules, and platform needs.
  • Translate business requirements into functional specifications, process flows, data models, interface requirements, and acceptance criteria.
  • Design end-to-end solution blueprints spanning consumer interfaces, rules engines, transaction data, partner services, and operational tools.
  • Define reusable capabilities for eligibility, campaigns, entitlements, rewards, fulfillment, traceability, resilience, and maintainability.
  • Partner with technology leaders and engineering teams to assess architecture options, integrations, dependencies, and non-functional requirements.
  • Support roadmap prioritization by evaluating technical feasibility, business value, delivery effort, and platform dependencies.
  • Define critical test scenarios, support business acceptance, and investigate issues across rules, data, interfaces, and fulfillment.
  • Improve platform reliability, reward accuracy, user experience, and speed to market using performance and operational feedback.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of relevant experience in solution architecture, systems analysis, or technical product roles for complex platforms.
  • Technical foundation through software engineering, systems design, or equivalent hands-on experience, with demonstrated solution architecture capability.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous business needs into functional designs, data flows, interface specifications, and testable requirements.
  • Working knowledge of APIs, databases, system integration, rules-based processing, and batch or event-driven architectures.
  • Experience partnering with technology leaders and engineering teams to assess trade-offs and resolve design issues.
  • Strong business analysis, stakeholder management, and communication skills in Mandarin and English.
  • Prior experience with rewards, loyalty, points, cashback, membership, benefits, card-linked offers, payment transaction data, or multi-party financial services integrations is helpful.
  • Experience with points accrual and redemption, entitlement management, reward ledgers, reversals, reconciliation, or partner fulfillment is helpful.
  • A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline is helpful.

Benefits

  • Visa requires at least 4 days in the office, with expectations confirmed by the Hiring Manager.

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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About Visa

10,000+ employees

Visa builds and operates a global digital payments network that connects consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and governments. It earns fees for processing card transactions and offering risk, data, and value‑added services through VisaNet and products like tokenization and tap‑to‑pay. Founded in 1958 and headquartered in Foster City, California, Visa is a public company (NYSE: V) serving clients in more than 200 countries and territories.

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