Solutions Consultant - BPL; Secondment​/FTC)

Join us as a Solutions Consultant within Barclaycard Payments on a 12 month secondment/ FTC where you will be responsible for leading the technical qualification, solution design and pre-sales engagement activities for complex payment acceptance opportunities across Gateway, Acquiring and Fraud solutions.

Acting as the technical authority throughout the sales lifecycle, the role partners with Coverage, Product, Professional Services and client technical teams to understand business and technical requirements, design scalable payment architectures, and validate solution fit.

The individual will conduct detailed discovery sessions, produce solution designs, identify technical and commercial risks, and support customers through architectural decision-making. They will ensure opportunities are appropriately qualified and that proposed solutions are achievable, commercially viable and aligned to Barclaycard's strategic product capabilities.

The role combines technical consultancy, payments expertise and commercial awareness to accelerate solution adoption and drive successful customer outcomes.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Experience with in the Payments sector.
• Technical pre-sales, solution consulting, solution engineering or solutions architecture experience.
• An understanding of payment gateway architecture and transaction processing.
• Experience designing API-based solutions and integrations and working with external development teams designing workflows and messages.
• Working knowledge of REST APIs, JSON, webhooks, authentication frameworks, POS providers and ISV’s.
• Experience producing solution architecture diagrams and technical documentation.
• Knowledge of ecommerce platforms such as Adobe Commerce, Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Big Commerce or Woo Commerce.
• Understanding of payment ecosystem participants including:
  Acquirers, Issuers, Processors, Payment Schemes, PSPs and Fraud Providers.

Desirable skills include:

• Knowledge of Barclays product solutions
• Experience in the Business to Business Financial Services Sector
• Previous experience in a data analytics role or data consultancy role
• An understanding of how consumer spending behaviours can support client growth strategy.
• An awareness of how consumer spend is changing in the current economic landscape.

This role can be based out of Northampton, London, Birmingham or Glasgow and is a 12 month secondment/ FTC.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Barclays’ payments acceptance business provides critical infrastructure to the UK economy, processing billions of pounds of payments annually for both small businesses and domestic and international corporate clients.

In April 2025, we announced a long-term partnership with Brookfield Asset Management to grow and transform the payments acceptance business by broadening the range of services offered, enhancing the experience for both existing and prospective clients. Leveraging extensive client relationships and deep experience of UK payments, we will create an environment of continuous innovation - activated by Brookfield’s global private equity expertise in payments, technology, operational transformation and corporate carve-outs - to ensure the business is strategically positioned for long-term growth.

Barclays will invest approximately £400m in the new business, the majority of which will be incurred during the first three years. Performance-linked incentives will drive greater alignment between the partners, underpinning the long-term commitment to the transformation. Barclays and Brookfield…