The Solution Architect - FinTech is responsible for defining, designing, and delivering end-to-end technical and business solutions across digital payments, mobile money, lending, KYC, digital identity, merchant solutions, and financial services platforms. This role requires strong financial domain knowledge, deep technical expertise, and the ability to work consultatively with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.The architect will lead solution scoping, requirement analysis, technical design, and deployment oversight while ensuring compliance, security, performance, and regulatory alignment across markets.
Key Responsibilities
FinTech Solution Design & Architecture
- Design scalable, secure, and regulatory-compliant solutions for digital payments, wallets, merchant transactions, lending, credit scoring, and financial ecosystem integrations.
- Analyze customer financial operations, transaction flows, risk controls, and compliance requirements to define optimized solutions.
- Translate business requirements into detailed technical designs spanning cloud, APIs, microservices, protocols, and core financial systems.
- Ensure solutions adhere to financial industry standards (PCI-DSS, ISO 8583, ISO 20022, AML/CFT, data privacy, etc.).
- Customer Engagement & Consultative Advisory
- Engage with banks, fintech operators, mobile money providers, and partners to understand business goals and technical landscapes.
- Lead workshops, requirement sessions, and technical deep-dives to define use cases and solution scope.
- Prepare and deliver technical proposals, architecture documents, and customer presentations.
- Support commercial teams with solution positioning, negotiation, and value articulation.
Project Delivery & Implementation Support
- Support implementation teams during development, integration, testing, and rollout of FinTech platforms.
- Provide architectural governance and ensure alignment with solution blueprint throughout delivery.
- Conduct infrastructure capacity planning, performance evaluation, and transaction throughput modeling.
- Work closely with product, engineering, risk, and operations teams to ensure successful deployment.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Collaborate with product roadmap teams, R&D, and engineering to translate market needs into platform features.
- Provide continuous feedback to improve solutions, architecture patterns, and product capabilities.
- Participate in design authority reviews and contribute to solution standards and best practices.
Knowledge Sharing & Market Insight
- Stay updated on emerging FinTech innovations - AI in finance, fraud prevention, automation, open banking, digital identity, CBDC, and interoperability frameworks.
- Share domain insights with customers and internal teams to build competence.
- Contribute to documentation, training materials, and internal knowledge base.
Required Skills & Competencies
FinTech Domain Expertise
- Strong understanding of digital payments, wallets, mobile money, merchant acquiring, lending platforms, KYC/AML, fraud systems, and transaction processing.
- Experience with financial protocols and integrations - ISO 8583, ISO 20022, REST/JSON APIs, SOAP, SFTP, OAuth2, JWT, Webhooks.
- Knowledge of financial compliance, risk controls, settlement processes, reconciliation, and transaction dispute flows.
Technical Skills
- Architecture design (cloud/on-prem), microservices, containerization, high-availability and DR setups.
- Performance tuning, capacity estimation, and infra planning for high-volume financial transactions.
- Experience with AI/ML and automation in financial use cases (fraud detection, credit prediction, operational optimization).
Business & Leadership Skills
- Strong consultative and customer-facing capabilities.
- Financial acumen to understand revenue models, pricing, ROI, and commercial impact.
- Ability to mentor, guide teams, and collaborate across multi-functional units.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and negotiation skills.
Why join Ericsson?
At Ericsson, you'll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what's possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world's toughest problems. You'll be challenged, but you won't be alone. You'll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.
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Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that's why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. learn more.
Primary country and city: India (IN) || Gurgaon
Req ID: 777145
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