Senior Enterprise Architect - Payments
Salary: Regional: £92,700 - £109,000 | London: £107,300 - £126,200.
Locations: London, Edinburgh, Leeds or Manchester.
Hours: Full time.
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the office.
About this opportunity
In this pivotal role, you'll define, uphold, and communicate the Technology Strategy to support the Group's vision and strategic goals. With a clear focus on the capabilities needed for long-term success, you'll align our Technology agenda with the Group's overarching strategy.
This opportunity is specifically aligned to our Group Payments Business Unit, an essential part of the Group's growth strategy where we already process around 20% of the UK's payments, from everyday payments between people, to paying salaries, paying bills and invoices, purchasing homes, and helping British businesses buy and sell goods and services around the world.
The strategic ambition in Group Payments is to transform domestic and international payments processing leveraging modern technologies. In addition, we influence the development of payment capabilities across domestic and international markets and are leading the Group's activities in using distributed ledger technologies, including blockchain and digital asset innovations, across multiple real world use cases.
Responsibilities
* Drive the strategic direction of architecture for Payments.
* Act as a trusted advisor and internal consultant to Technology and Business Platform Leads.
* Combine corporate governance, business control, and developing business solutions.
* Utilise technical skills in Public and Private Cloud, APIs, Traditional hosting, and event‑driven architectures.
* Create feasibility assessments and roadmaps.
* Embrace an agile and digital approach while showcasing strong communication and leadership skills.
Qualifications
* A proven track record in a Lead Architect role, having successfully helped drive the architecture vision and strategy.
* Experience in business skills such as corporate governance, business control, solution development, and design.
* Technical knowledge of Public/Private Cloud, APIs, traditional hosting, and event‑driven architectures.
* Architectural expertise, including feasibility assessments and road‑mapping.
* Personal strengths: agile mindset, digital approach, strong communication, leadership, and alignment with company values.
* Strong payments knowledge / background in Financial Services.
* Understanding of emerging technologies such as blockchain and digital assets, with an appreciation of their role in shaping future payment and financial services architectures.
Benefits
* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
* An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.
* Share schemes including free shares.
* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
* 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top.
* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
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