Hybrid Staff Solution Architect, Growth

at Airwallex

• Job title: Staff Solution Architect, Growth
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $150,000 - $210,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: ETL, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Staff Solution Architect leading technical strategy for Airwallex, a financial platform for global businesses. Responsible for designing scalable systems and architectures for revenue platforms including Salesforce and Marketo.

Responsibilities

• leading technical strategy as the Staff Solution Architect
• reporting to the Director of Growth and Revenue Systems
• closely working with the Director of Growth Engineering to design target architecture
• Own the end-to-end technical design for core revenue platforms, specifically Salesforce and Marketo
• Design the architecture for the revamped Growth tech platform, defining utilization of Hightouch and Databricks
• Architect technical patterns for integrating in-house AI agents and third-party tools into the ecosystem
• Lead technical assessment, architecture validation, and Proof of Concept for new tech vendors
• Work closely across engineering, commercial, product, and data analytics teams

Requirements

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

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• a 401(k) plan
• short-term and long-term disability
• basic life insurance
• well-being benefits
• 20 paid days of vacation
• 12 paid days of company holidays