Fare Payments Solutions Architect

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This Opportunity

Are you ready to elevate your career in fare payments?

If you’re eager to enhance your technical skills and explore new growth opportunities, WSP is the place for you.

Our fare collection practice empowers transit agencies nationwide to adopt a fare collection-centric approach, making them more agile, secure, and prepared for the future.

Join our team and become a key player in providing expert guidance, executing innovative solutions, and managing their implementation.

By collaborating with our forward-thinking team, you'll have the unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge payment technologies, allowing for rapid career advancement, both vertically and horizontally.

This is your chance to be part of our fare payments team and accelerate your professional journey.

WSP USA seeks a dynamic Fare Payments Solution Architect to design and oversee fare payment projects throughout North America.

This position may sit out of the following WSP USA offices: **New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Chicago, IL; Houston, TX.**

Your Impact

+ Leverage your technical expertise and strategic thinking to seamlessly integrate all components, including onboard validators and mobile apps, into backend payment processing and data analytics.
+ Lead the design of integrated fare collection systems, incorporating account-based ticketing, smart cards, mobile apps, and open-loop (credit card) payments.
+ Work with transit agencies and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications.
+ Guide development teams to ensure solutions meet architectural designs and quality standards.
+ Identify and troubleshoot issues during the implementation and post-deployment.

Who You Are

**Required Qualifications**

+ You possess a Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field, and a minimum of 10 years of experience in a Solution Architect, Systems Integration, or similar role, with specific expertise in fare collection, ticketing or payment systems.
+ Proven experience as a solution or systems architect leading large, complex fare payment system projects integrating software, electrical, mechanical, and civil engineering—from design to delivery.
+ You have extensive experience managing software development initiatives, including crafting requirements and overseeing fare payment system development, testing, and deployment in live production environments.
+ Expertise in payment processing, EMV (Europay, Mastercard, Visa) standards, and contactless/open-loop payment technology.
+ Strong understanding of cloud architecture and services, with certifications like AWS or Azure.
+ Excellent communication skills to translate complex technical concepts for technical teams and non-technical business leaders.

**Preferred Qualifications**

+ A Master’s degree in engineering or an MBA with experience in providing technical leadership to development and project teams.
+ In-depth knowledge of integration patterns, APIs, and microservices architecture.

WSP Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation:
Expected Salary (all locations): $170,000 - $210,000

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location.

WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

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**About WSP**
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms.

Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals.

WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets.

With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs.

Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base.

Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges.

Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

**NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:**

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services.

Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand.

Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.

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