Solution Architect

We're seeking a Solution Architect to lead end-to-end architecture for mobile financial services (digital wallet, mobile money, payments). You will define and govern solution designs, integrating with telecom and financial ecosystems to deliver secure, scalable, and compliant services. The role works across the Ericsson Fintech Platform / Ericsson Wallet Platform (EWP) and its open API architecture to enable robust mobile financial solutions.

Ericsson Inc. does not sponsor US work authorizations for this job position including H-1B, O-1, and TN. Ericsson also does not hire F-1's working on EAD for this position.

• Discovery & Requirements
• Elicit business and non-functional requirements; translate into architecture principles, patterns, and interface contracts.
• Architecture & Design
• Own E2E solution architecture: domain models, service decomposition, integration patterns, security zones, data flows, and scaling strategies.
• Leverage microservices and containerized components to build resilient, cloud-ready deployments.
• Security & Compliance
• Design for security-by-default (encryption in transit/at rest, secrets handling, IAM), fraud management, and regulatory adherence (AML/KYC, PCI-DSS, PSD2).
• Integration & APIs
• Define and govern API-first integrations (REST, events) across wallets, charging/billing, merchant acquiring, remittance, identity, and risk engines; ensure open ecosystem extensibility.
• Cloud & Infrastructure
• Guide target-state on Kubernetes, hybrid/public cloud, networking, and observability; ensure HA/DR, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Data & Reliability
• Architect for auditability, idempotency, exactly-once / at-least-once processing where required; design data retention and lineage.
• Delivery Governance
• Produce and maintain HLD/LLD, sequence diagrams, interface specs, security and compliance traceability; run design reviews and gate approvals.
• Stakeholder Leadership
• Partner with product, engineering, operations, security, compliance, and customer teams; provide pre-sales support (RFI/RFP, SoW scoping) and solution costing.
• Continuous Improvement
• Benchmark platform capabilities; drive roadmap inputs for scale, security, and ecosystem growth aligned to Ericsson Mobile Financial Services strategy.

• 8+ years in solution architecture for fintech/payments/mobile money; 3+ years leading complex integrations across telecom/financial ecosystems.
• Hands-on with API-first platforms; experience with EWP / wallet platforms strongly preferred.
• Deep knowledge of payments domains: wallet, P2P, merchant payments, collections/disbursements, remittance, savings/loans.
• Expertise in cloud-native design: Kubernetes, service mesh, ingress/egress, secrets, CI/CD, SRE, and observability.
• Security/regulatory: PCI-DSS, AML/KYC, PSD2/Open Banking, data privacy; threat modeling and fraud controls.
• Integration: REST/JSON, events/streaming, message queues, OAuth/OIDC; patterns (saga, outbox, CQRS).
• Data: relational/NoSQL, ledgering, reconciliation, reporting/BI.
• Strong communication; able to simplify complexity for non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred skills:

• Deployments with CSPs and large enterprises; scaling agent networks and merchant ecosystems.
• Performance tuning for high-transaction platforms and real-time risk.
• Familiarity with Ericsson Mobile Financial Services portfolio and reference architectures.
• Certifications: CISSP/CCSP, CISA, AWS/Azure Architect, CKA/CKAD.
• 10-15% travel for customer workshops, design reviews, and launches. only as needed.