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Solution Architect - Payments Enterprise Technology

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A fantastic opportunity to join us as we create a standalone Payments Acquiring business embracing a fintech culture from our new offices alongside our Brookfield partners. This is an exciting time to join a unique project well suited to candidates who thrive in a fast paced, flat organisation with significant autonomy. Enterprise Technology will be replacing a complex, largely on-premise technology stack with a clean new SaaS landscape for Finance, Risk, HR and Functions IT. We require an exceptional Solutions Architect to drive design and integration across that landscape.

Job Responsibility:

  • Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling
  • Targeted design activities that apply an appropriate workload placement strategy and maximise the benefit of cloud capabilities
  • Best practice designs incorporating security principles
  • Solutions that appropriately balance risks and controls to deliver the agreed business and technology value
  • Adoption of standardised solutions where they fit
  • Fault finding and performance issues support to operational support teams
  • Solution design impact assessment in terms of risk, capacity and cost impact
  • Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the banks governance processes

Requirements:

  • Demonstrable senior level experience designing SaaS focussed architectures
  • Experience in one or more of Finance, HR or Functions technology domains
  • Experience onboarding SaaS vendors and deploying SaaS products in financial services or fintech

Nice to have:

  • Experience in fintech / smaller organisations for scale appropriate solutions
  • Highly pro-active and self sufficient
What we offer:
  • Competitive holiday allowance
  • Life assurance
  • Private medical care
  • Pension contribution

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 06, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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