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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Payments Solution Architect - **Company:** GFT - **Location:** Boadilla del Monte, Spain (Remote available) - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Online Banking, Payment Systems, Payment Gateway, Software Engineering, Test Execution Engine, Strategies of Testing, Information Technology, Api Management - **Published:** August 28, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.es/contact-us.html ## About the Role + 10+ years of deep payments experience, with strong knowledge of digital payment ecosystems such as mobile payments, online banking, payment gateways, digital wallets, and point-of-sale systems. + Strong quality engineering expertise, including a technical understanding of API integrations, software development methodologies, and testing practices within financial or transaction-heavy environments. + Proven solution architecture and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to analyze complex transaction flows, identify integration issues, and establish structured evaluation criteria. + Client-facing consulting or managed-services experience, ideally involving technical discovery, solution design, advisory work, and engagement with enterprise stakeholders. + Commercial and strategic acumen, including experience developing service offerings, understanding cost-to-serve considerations, and collaborating with sales, alliances, and partner organizations. + Strong systems-thinking and problem-solving abilities, with intellectual curiosity, creativity, adaptability, and a continuous-learning mindset. + Excellent communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly through written, visual, and verbal formats to both engineering teams and senior business executives. + Strong leadership and influencing capabilities, with experience motivating distributed, cross-functional teams without relying on direct people-management authority. + Master's degree in Finance, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline is preferred. + Experience with payments innovation, emerging transaction technologies, or agentic payment systems is advantageous. + Candidates should be comfortable working in a fully remote, globally distributed environment and collaborating effectively across time zones. ## Description This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Payments Solution Architect based in Spain. This is a strategic and hands-on role at the intersection of digital payments, financial technology, and quality engineering. You will shape and scale payment testing solutions for complex, enterprise-grade transaction environments. The role combines technical architecture, commercial strategy, client advisory, and delivery leadership. You will design offerings, methodologies, staffing models, and pricing while solving sophisticated payment-quality challenges. Working closely with clients, sales, delivery teams, and technology partners, you will influence high-impact business opportunities. You will also help define the future of payments testing through thought leadership, innovation, and industry engagement. This is an opportunity to make a measurable difference to digital experiences used by millions of people worldwide. Accountabilities + Shape the payments offering: Define, launch, package, and continuously evolve payment testing services, including the offering catalog, methodologies, staffing approaches, and pricing models. + Set strategic direction: Develop and communicate a forward-looking vision for payments testing, identifying market opportunities, competitive trends, and innovative approaches that can expand the business. + Drive commercial growth: Partner with sales teams on enterprise opportunities, participate in client conversations, advise prospects on payments testing strategies and ROI, and contribute expertise to pipeline development. + Build strategic partnerships: Work with alliances teams and external technology, payments, commerce, and consulting partners to develop joint go-to-market opportunities. + Design technical solutions: Analyze complex digital transaction architectures and create tailored quality engineering strategies for mobile payments, wallets, payment gateways, online banking, POS systems, and emerging agentic payment environments. + Provide hands-on delivery expertise: Act as a senior subject-matter expert and escalation point, supporting engagements from initial scoping through test execution and delivery reviews. + Resolve complex technical challenges: Troubleshoot payment integrations and quality-engineering roadblocks while protecting transaction integrity, security, compliance, and reliability across markets and payment instruments. + Elevate client and delivery capabilities: Introduce new technical approaches, methodologies, and best practices to help delivery teams and enterprise clients improve their payments testing maturity. + Lead thought leadership: Represent the payments testing vision through white papers, articles, webinars, conference presentations, industry discussions, and other external communications. + Influence without direct authority: Inspire and coordinate distributed, cross-functional teams while building strong relationships with technical specialists, business leaders, clients, and partners., reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. 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