Join us as a Solution Architect in Payments Technology
- This is an opportunity for an experienced Solution Architect to help us define the high level technical architecture and design for your assigned scope that provides solutions to deliver great business outcomes and meets our longer term strategy
- You’ll define and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision of end-to-end designs that may span multiple platforms and domains
- Take on this exciting new challenge and hone your technical capabilities while advancing your career and building your network across the bank
- We're offering this role at vice president level
We’ll look to you to influence and promote the collaboration across platform and domain teams on the solution delivery. Partnering with platform and domain teams, you’ll elaborate the solution and its interfaces, validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives, and creating the continuous delivery pipeline.
You’ll also provide analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using the relevant building blocks, as well as producing designs for features that allow frequent incremental delivery of customer value.
On top of this, you’ll be:
- Owning the technical design issues and driving resolution through the iteration of the technical solution design
- Working in Payments Technology with stakeholders and product owners to develop payments solutions
- Participating in activities to shape requirements, validating designs and prototypes to deliver change that aligns with the target architecture
- Working closely with engineers and other architecture disciplines within Payments spanning the SDLC
- Promoting adaptive design practices to drive collaboration of feature teams around a common technical vision using continuous feedback
- Working with Payment Technology vendors on integration designs and patterns
- Making recommendations of potential impacts to existing and prospective customers of the latest technology and customer trends
As a Solution Architect, you’ll bring expert knowledge of application architecture, and in business data or infrastructure architecture with working knowledge of industry architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or ArchiMate. You’ll also need an understanding of Agile and contemporary methodologies with experience of working in Agile teams.
You’ll need experience of defining application architectures and roadmaps for complex solutions working for all layers of the technical architecture. We’ll also look for knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering
In addition, you’ll bring:
- Knowledge of Payment schemes and the latest industry trends and regulations
- Experience in designing and delivering Microservices-based architectures
- Strong expertise in Kafka and event-driven system design
- Experience with Payments data models and key data relationships
- Knowledge of Payment processing functional architecture, the payments process and ISO20022
- A background in delivering solutions that securely span a complex infrastructure domain
- Experience of systems development change lifecycles, best practices and approaches
- The ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and leadership level colleagues
- Deep understanding of AWS cloud services and architecture patterns
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
30/01/2026Top Skills
What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate.
As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these.
Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence.
One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025.
We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
