Payments & Treasury Architect

Cash and Banking Lead Solution Architect

Employment type: Contract

Duration: 12 months (extensions thereafter confirmed)

IR35 status: INSIDE IR35

We will only consider candidates with strong domain knowledge within Payments and ideally Treasury Management, you must also have a foundation in IT Solution Architecture.

Role Responsibilities

• Architectural Leadership: Define and implement end-to-end architecture solutions for IT initiatives, ensuring they meet functional, non-functional, and security requirements.
• Collaboration: Work with requirement owners, domain architects, and IT engineers to build high-quality solutions.
• Integration: Bridge the gap between Enterprise Architecture and IT delivery teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and domain target architectures.
• Community Contribution: Develop reusable solution patterns and building blocks and actively participate in the evolution of Solution Architecture and Software Engineering practices.
• Technology Expertise: Apply hands‑on technology and delivery experience to contribute to the definition of business capability (Domain) target architectures and roadmaps focussed on EB Cash & Banking domain.
• Knowledge Sharing: Engage in communities of practice with other architects to share standard methodologies and lessons learned.

Profile Requirements

• Must have Proven experience working in Payments and Treasury domain as a business or solution architect who is easily able to converse with business (product management, business analysts etc).
• Must have Sufficient background in IT to be able to assimilate unfamiliar technologies quickly and apply to the end‑2‑end solution, converse with IT SMEs.
• Nice to have Extensive experience in the IT industry, particularly as a solution architect on large-scale transformation projects.
• Agile and DevOps: Experience with large-scale agile projects and DevOps practices, including CI/CD. Knowledge of agile working at scale and methods such as Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) would be beneficial.
• Architectural Skills: Proficiency in Event Driven and Service-based architectures, microservices, and RESTful APIs would be advantageous but not essential

Technical Knowledge

• Familiarity with Mainframe technologies in general would be nice to have
• Complex Problem Solving: Ability to handle complex systems and problems across functions, locations, and organizations.
• Autonomy: Capable of conducting architectural analysis and providing pragmatic suggestions with guidance / mentorship and know when to accelerate.
• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical abilities to break down complex problems and provide actionable solutions.
• Pragmatism: Focus on delivering fit‑for‑purpose results using a pragmatic approach.
• Innovation and Change: Identify the need for change and propose innovative solutions to improve IT delivery processes.
• Communication: Strong communication skills to advocate for architectural recommendations to project teams and senior management.
• Relationship Management: Ability to build positive relationships.
• Industry Knowledge: Strong domain knowledge in Payments (domestic and cross‑border) and Treasury Management in post‑trade market. Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks (e.g. Open Agile Architecture or TOGAF) is a plus.
• Financial Services: Experience in the Financial Services industry and a good understanding of Payments or Treasury processes is must and the related regulatory environments understanding is desirable.
• This role offers the chance to define a significant impact on the IT landscape while working in a collaborative and innovative environment.

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