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Payments Solution Architect
£41,000 - 81,000
Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
Triton Street 20, Knutsford
£41,000 - 81,000
Requirements
Must:
- Strong domain expertise in cards and payments, including card issuance and authorisation journeys.
- Broad understanding of core banking, current account operations, and payment schemes.
- Experience designing solutions across payments, core banking, and card systems, with a focus on cloud, APIs, DevOps, and security principles.
- Ability to manage architectural governance, including privacy, records management, and risk-aligned design artefacts.
- Strong stakeholder management and the ability to influence strategy across multiple teams.
- Familiarity with delivery and reporting tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, JIRA, Tableau, and Confluence.
- A blend of technical depth and business acumen to align architecture with operational and strategic goals.
Responsibilities
- Operate as a Core Banking Solution Architect specialising in current accounts, payments, and cards.
- Design end-to-end technology solutions for complex banking journeys such as loans, savings/current accounts, and account switching.
- Lead architectural design and guide integration strategies.
- Ensure solutions meet standards for scalability, resiliency, security, and regulatory compliance.
- Collaborate with product owners, project managers, and business analysts.
- Produce governance artefacts and support innovation across the banking ecosystem.
Description
We are a large, well-established financial institution undergoing significant transformation in our core banking and current-account landscape. Our environment is highly regulated and technology-driven, focusing on modernising legacy platforms while adopting cloud, automation, and scalable architectural patterns. Joining our team means engaging in strategic banking capabilities and gaining exposure to cloud adoption, automation initiatives, and vendor integrations, all within a large-scale financial environment.
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