Product Architect-Fintech Domain(No Banking domain Profiles please)

Role: Product Architect-Fintech Domain(No Banking domain Profiles please)

Location: Denver-Hybrid 3 days onsite

Rate:$85/Hr

Mandatory Skills

• Payment systems, routing engines, and payment processing workflows
• Payment Processing: (Fintech (retail & payment).Please focus on profiles from a fintech background rather than banking.

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.