Solutions Architect

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We are seeking experienced Payments Solution Architects to support a major UK banking payments modernisation programme. The successful candidates will play a key role in transforming and migrating legacy payment platforms into a modern Payments Hub, enabling scalable, compliant and ISO 20022-native payment processing across multiple UK and international payment schemes.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and govern end-to-end payments architecture across orchestration, clearing, settlement, reconciliation, exceptions and returns.
• Define and document functional and logical architecture for modern payment platforms and integrations.
• Support the migration of legacy payment systems into a modern Payments Hub environment.
• Design solutions aligned to ISO 20022 standards across multiple schemes and payment types.
• Ensure compliance with scheme rules, settlement cycles, messaging flows and operational controls.
• Review and govern technical designs produced by engineering and delivery teams.
• Collaborate with business, delivery and operations stakeholders to ensure scalable and fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Support large-scale transformation programmes across multiple payment rails and banking platforms.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong Payments domain expertise is essential.
• Extensive experience across payment orchestration, order management, clearing, settlement, reconciliations, exceptions and returns.
• Hands-on scheme knowledge across Faster Payments, CHAPS, SWIFT, Bacs, SEPA and Cheques.
• Deep expertise in ISO 20022, including message structures, validation, data models and scheme-specific variations.
• Proven experience designing or reviewing end-to-end ISO 20022 implementations.
• Strong Solution Architecture experience within complex banking or financial services environments.
• Ability to create architecture models, define system interactions and govern delivery.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Delivery-focused mindset with the ability to operate independently.

Desirable Skills

• Exposure to Pagonext would be highly beneficial.
• Knowledge of BIAN, TOGAF, ArchiMate or C4.
• Experience with APIs, microservices and cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Exposure to large-scale banking or payments transformation programmes.

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