Senior Enterprise Architect

Senior Enterprise Architect – Payments

Full‑time, hybrid (40% in office) in London, Edinburgh, Leeds or Manchester.

Salary:
Regional £92,701 – £109,060.

In this pivotal role you will define, uphold, and communicate the Technology Strategy to support the Group’s vision and strategic goals. You will align the Technology agenda with the Group’s overarching strategy and drive architecture for the Payments Business Unit, which processes around 20% of the UK’s payments.

• Drive the strategic direction of the 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.

• Proven track record in a Lead Architect role with a successful architecture vision and strategy.
• Experience in 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.
• Strong Payments knowledge or background in Financial Services.
• Understanding of emerging technologies such as blockchain and digital assets and their role in payment and financial services architectures.
• A strong agile mindset, digital approach, communication, leadership, and alignment with company values.

• Generous pension contribution up to 15%.
• Annual bonus award subject to Group performance.
• Share schemes including free shares.
• 30 days’ holiday with bank holidays on top.
• Well‑being initiatives and generous parental leave policies.

We are an equal opportunity employer.