# Director, Solution Architect, Tech Partnership

**Company**: Visa
**Location**: Beijing
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Visa's Tech Partnerships Team is a client-facing organization that sets Visa's public digital narrative. This team develops commercial partnerships and investments with industry-leading digital brands and platform providers and manages ongoing engagement with large and small FinTech players across the region.

As a Director, Solution Architect, Tech Partnership, you will serve as the primary technical partner to the Tech Partnerships team, collaborating closely with BD/Sales counterparts to pursue strategic partnerships with leading Chinese digital ecosystem partners and key AI players.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead solution architecture efforts across strategic partner engagements in Greater China, driving technical discovery, end-to-end solution design, architecture governance and delivery excellence.

- Possess deep expertise in AI ecosystems and Agentic AI application development, translating emerging technologies into scalable, compliant payment and commerce solutions aligned with Visa's product portfolio.

- Engage and influence senior technical decision-makers, product leaders and engineering stakeholders at strategic partners, leveraging strong presentation and whiteboarding capabilities to position Visa as a trusted technology partner.

- Lead and actively contribute to the design and development of end-to-end solution prototypes with client technical teams, leveraging Visa product capabilities and partner applications to rapidly validate business opportunities and accelerate implementation.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related technical field.

- 12+ years of professional experience, including significant experience in solution architecture, platform architecture, technical consulting, cloud architecture or other customer-facing technical leadership roles.

- Deep expertise in AI ecosystems, Agentic AI application development and modern cloud architecture, with demonstrated success translating emerging technologies into commercial solutions.

- Proven track record of partnering with Sales, Business Development and Product organizations to engage technical decision-makers and drive strategic customer or partner engagements.

Nice to have:

- Experience working with large-scale internet platforms, cloud service providers, AI technology companies, digital ecosystem players like leading online-advertising or FinTech organizations.

- Hands-on experience with Large Language Models (LLMs), AI agents, orchestration frameworks, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Model Context Protocol (MCP), tool calling or agentic application architectures.

- Familiarity with modern AI development platforms and cloud ecosystems such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Volcengine or Tencent Cloud.

This role offers a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of one of the most significant technology shifts in decades. You will work with industry-leading partners, explore emerging AI technologies, influence real-world commerce experiences and help shape the future of Agentic Commerce and digital payments at global scale.

## Skills

### Required
- solution architecture
- AI ecosystems
- Agentic AI application development
- cloud architecture
- technical consulting

### Nice to have
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- AI agents
- orchestration frameworks
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- tool calling
- agentic application architectures

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