Product Architect

Summary:

We are looking for a seasoned Payment Domain Subject Matter Expert (SME) and Solutions Architect to lead the design, integration, and optimization of payment routing and processing solutions. This role will act as a bridge between business stakeholders, technology teams, vendors, and third party partners, ensuring compliant, scalable, and efficient payment solutions. The ideal candidate brings strong payment domain expertise, solution architecture experience, and the ability to articulate complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes within a large enterprise environment.

Skills & Experience:

Proven experience working as a Payment Domain SME in large scale enterprise environments. Deep understanding of end to end payment processing workflows, including authorization, clearing, settlement, reconciliation, and dispute handling. Strong knowledge of payment routing engines, transaction decisioning, and rule based routing. Hands on experience with multiple payment methods, including cards, digital wallets, and alternative payment methods. Experience integrating with payment gateways, acquirers, processors, and third party payment service providers. Experience designing and solutioning payment integrations and platforms in complex ecosystems. Ability to architect secure, scalable, and highly available payment solutions. Strong analytical and problem solving skills, especially in high volume transaction environments. Ability to translate technical designs into business focused solutions for executive and operational stakeholders. Good understanding of PCI DSS standards and secure handling of payment data. Familiarity with industry regulations and compliance requirements related to payment processing. Experience working with security and compliance teams to ensure adherence to enterprise controls. Demonstrated experience in a solution leadership or technical leadership role. Strong communication and presentation skills, capable of engaging senior business and technology leaders. Ability to represent the IT organization in client, vendor, and third party engagements. Experience identifying team skill gaps and mentoring / training engineers on payment concepts and solutions. Prior experience supporting Telecom and/or Retail clients. Experience working with large, regulated enterprises similar in scale and complexity

Responsibilities:

Engage with Comcast business and technology stakeholders to understand payment processing and routing requirements. Act as the primary Payment Domain SME, providing solution guidance to business, engineering, and partner teams. Design and propose end to end payment routing and integration solutions aligned with Comcast standards, industry best practices, and platform capabilities. Collaborate with internal IT teams, business teams, vendors, and third parties to gather, analyze, and validate business and technical requirements. Represent the IT team in client, vendor, and third party meetings, ensuring clarity and alignment. Define requirements, acceptance criteria considering the edge cases and seniors in payment processing Recommend payment routing configurations, customization approaches, and integration strategies, including rules, workflows, and interfaces. Conduct solution walkthroughs, architecture reviews, and product demonstrations as needed. Support presales to post implementation handover, working closely with product, engineering, support, and operations teams. Identify knowledge gaps within the team and drive enablement and training initiatives. Develop and maintain documentation, including solution proposals, architecture diagrams, implementation plans, and customization specifications. Ensure payment solutions comply with security, PCI, and enterprise governance standards. Provides Technology Consulting with expertise in technology drivers and trends. Responsible for Product Architecture in the business division by providing guidance to Associate Product Architect I and II. 1. Leads the product team from a technical and architectural perspective to deliver desired services with associated service levels 2. Ownership and implementation of the technology vision across departments for given products/initiatives 3. Ensure execution plans are aligned with business goals 4. Enable the research and evaluation of new technology and new architectural and software designs 5. Keep abreast with the latest trends and knowledge within technology space and deliver meaningful user experiences 6. Drive technological innovation, enabling technology refreshes and selection of alternative technologies; leveraging changing usage and trends in the industry 7. Evangelize and drive change across the organization; influencing leadership both within the Product teams and rest of the organization 8. Drive the adoption of Architectural standards across the organization 9. Ensure identification, analysis and resolution of systemic technical issues 10. Lead creation and delivery of proof-of-concept and near production-ready code prototypes; demonstrating new technologies or design patterns to other technology teams 11. Leverage technical experience to mentor and coach team members; build next layer of Product Architecture leadership to attract and retain the best technology talent 12. Enable team collaboration working with cross-functional teams, demonstrated by working effectively with global /distributed teams building global applications 13. Enable efficient employment and recruitment activities, while providing coaching and guidance to a team of Product Architecture professionals and promoting staff training and development 14. Set OKRs and success steps for self/ team and providing feedback of goals for team members

Payment Processing:

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