Lead Solution Architect

Lead Solution Architect, Director

Join us as a Lead 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 that provides solutions to deliver great business outcomes and meets our longer term strategy
• You’ll influence the definition and communication of 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 director level

What you'll do

You'll be collaborating with platform and engineering teams to architect and deliver solutions. Together, you’ll elaborate on the solution and its interfaces, validate technology assumptions, evaluate implementation alternatives, and develop a pipeline of features and improvements to allow frequent and 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
• Leading in activities to understand requirements, validating designs and prototypes to deliver change that aligns with our target architecture. Helping to develop and communicate our target architecture, its principles, patterns and designs
• Working closely with engineers and other architecture disciplines within Payments
• 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 and ISO20022
• Making recommendations of potential impacts to existing and prospective customers of the latest technology and customer trends

The skills you'll need

You’ll bring expert knowledge of technical, data and infrastructure architecture. You will understand the principles of enterprise architecture and software engineering patterns, have deep experience of conceptual, logical and functional architecture and design approaches. You will need to understand business and functional process and data flows and be able to apply principles of design that avoid abstraction leakage and uphold separation of concerns wherever possible and where not, will be able to design the path to elimination of technical debt. You will be able to refer to anti patterns when justifying design decisions.

Understanding event driven, microservices architectures is essential on a highly accomplished level. It will not be enough to have worked on such architectures. The candidate will need to understand how these systems should be designed to scale, support continuous, low risk deployments and be cloud native. The ability to model designs based on data and functional abstractions is essential. Knowledge and experience of a wide range of tools and technologies is desirable.

In addition, you’ll bring:

• Knowledge of Payment schemes and the latest industry trends and regulations
• Experience of real time Payment processing approaches and their application
• Experience with Payments data models and key data relationships
• Knowledge of Payment processing functional architecture, the payments process
• 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

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

19/01/2026

Experience Level

Senior Level