VP Solutions Consulting, Embedded Finance & Digital Assets at Fiserv in New York, New York

Job description

• What does a successful, VP, Solutions Consulting, Embedded Finance & Digital Assets do at Fiserv?
• As a successful, VP, Solutions Consulting, Embedded Finance & Digital Assets, you will lead solution consulting for high-value, complex payment engagements partnering closely with Sales and Product teams to design scalable architectures and accelerate strategic deals across U.S. and regional markets. You will act as a senior solution architect and client-facing technical advisor who drives clear solution artifacts, shortens sales cycles and ensures handoffs to delivery teams for successful implementations and measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end solution design and technical due diligence for complex payment deals across U.S. and regional markets, ensuring technical feasibility, commercial alignment and client requirements traceability.
• Serve as the primary solution architect and trusted advisor on strategic pursuits; present solution options to clients, evaluate client environments and recommend architectures that reduce implementation risk and accelerate deal closure.
• Own Request for Proposal (RFP) response development in partnership with Sales, Product, Legal, and Pricing — coordinate technical inputs, validate commercial assumptions and ensure timely, high-quality delivery.
• Produce concise, consumable solution artifacts: architecture diagrams, integration flows, data mappings, business requirements documents (BRDs), Statement of Work (SOW) inputs, implementation roadmaps and proof-of-concept (POC) designs.
• Design and validate integration patterns and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), define security controls and data protection requirements, and establish implementation sequencing to support scalable delivery.
• Translate client requirements into prioritized product and engineering requests, provide release impact assessments and articulate trade-offs between client needs, product constraints and delivery timelines.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in pre-sales, solution consulting or solution architecture within payments or adjacent fintech, designing and selling complex, multi-component payment solutions to enterprise clients.
• Experience owning Request for Proposal (RFP) responses and coordinating cross-functional stakeholders to produce technical and commercial documentation on deadline.
• Experience designing and implementing APIs, integrations, data mappings, security controls, and implementation sequencing for payment platforms, gateways or processors.
• Experience presenting complex technical solutions to executive (C-level) and technical audiences and influencing commercial decision-making.
• Experience with cloud platforms, microservices-based architectures, RESTful APIs, OAuth or similar authentication frameworks, JSON-based data exchanges and CI/CD delivery practices.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, PMP, AWS/Azure cloud certifications, or equivalent professional credentials are a plus; or equivalent combination of education, related experience and/or military experience.
• Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in a technical or business discipline or equivalent combination of education, related experience and/or military experience.
• You must currently possess valid and unrestricted U.S. work authorization to be considered for this role. Individuals with temporary visas including, but not limited to, F-1 (OPT, CPT, STEM), H-1B, H-2, or TN, or any candidate requiring sponsorship, now or in the future, will not be considered for this role.
• Prior implementation, solution design, or pre-sales experience with payment platforms (for example Payfare, VisionNext or similar vendor solutions.)
• Experience with cross-border payment flows, regional regulatory requirements and regional payment schemes or settlement networks.
• Familiarity with modern observability, testing strategies for integrations and building reusable playbooks, accelerators or IP to scale solution delivery.

Skills

Required

• Solution architecture
• Pre-sales and solution consulting
• RFP response development
• API design and integration
• Cloud platforms
• Microservices-based architectures
• RESTful APIs
• JSON-based data exchanges
• CI/CD delivery practices

Preferred

• Cross-border payment flows
• Regional regulatory requirements
• Observability and testing strategies

Benefits

• $190,000.00 - $316,800.00
• These pay ranges apply to employees in New Jersey and New York. Pay ranges for employees in other states may differ.
• For incentive eligible associates, the successful candidate is eligible for an annual incentive opportunity which may be delivered as a mix of cash bonus and equity awards in the Company’s sole discretion.