Staff Solution Architect, Growth

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you're ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

Attributes We Value

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you're motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.

You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you "get stuff done" end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you'll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let's build what's next.

About the Team

The Growth and Revenue Systems team is a cross-functional team in the Growth department comprising engineers, marketers, and revenue operations. We are responsible for maintaining and improving our sales and marketing tooling such as our CRM and our marketing automation platform. We also spearhead innovation in tooling using AI, such as developing in-house AI agents to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of sales and marketing teams.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will be leading technical strategy as the Senior Solution Architect. You will report to the Director of Growth and Revenue Systems and work closely with the Director of Growth Engineering to design our target architecture. Your focus will be on designing scalable systems while other teams handle the hands-on build and implementation phases.

• Revenue Stack Architecture: Own the end-to-end technical design for our core revenue platforms, specifically Salesforce and Marketo. You will ensure these systems are architected to handle hyper-growth and complex product portfolios.
• Data & AI Ecosystem Design: Design the architecture for our revamped Growth tech platform, defining how we utilize Hightouch and Databricks for intent signals, data enrichment, and campaign audience data modeling.
• Integration Strategy: Architect the technical patterns for integrating in-house AI agents and third-party tools into our ecosystem, ensuring seamless data flow and system stability.
• Technical Assessment: Lead the technical assessment, architecture validation, and Proof of Concept (POC) for new tech vendors, working closely with stakeholders in Data, Engineering, Commercial, and Marketing.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely across engineering, commercial, product, and data analytics teams to ensure that technical designs translate into great customer outcomes.

Who you are

• Experience: At least 7 years' experience in software engineering, systems engineering, or solution architecture roles.
• Platform Expertise: Deep experience designing solutions within Salesforce and Marketo is highly preferred. Experience with other CRM/MAP platforms will be considered.
• Data Proficiency: Strong understanding of data warehousing principles and SQL databases. Familiarity with modern data tools like Databricks and Reverse ETL (e.g., Hightouch) is advantageous.
• Systems Thinking: A track record of providing architectural guidance across all phases of software development from initiation to deployment.
• Communication: Exceptional communication skills, enabling you to deeply understand customer needs and navigate to successful solutions.
• Outcome Focused: A bias towards outcomes and customer success, with relentless focus and creativity to achieve our objectives.
• Domain Knowledge: Knowledge of the payments domain / financial services will be advantageous.

This role can be based in Singapore or San Fran

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To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @ email address. Please apply only through or our official LinkedIn page.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.

Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don't regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Compensation Range: $160K - $230K

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