Payments Solution Architect
Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires experienced Payments Solution Architects to be based at their client’s office in Milton Keynes, UK.
This is a hybrid role – you can work remotely in the UK and attend the Milton Keynes office 3 days per week.
This is a 6+ month temporary contract to start asap
Day rate: Competitive Market rate
Our client is seeking senior level Architects with deep experience in payments execution processing. You will be supporting the modernisation of the client’s payments estate and the migration of legacy platforms to the Payments Hub (PagoNxt). The right candidate must have strong payments scheme knowledge, deep understanding of ISO 20022, and proven experience designing solutions for core payment processing.
Key Requirements
Payments Domain expertise
- Strong experience across payments execution processes such as orchestration, order management, clearing, settlement, reconciliations, exception handling and returns
- Practical scheme knowledge in at least several of the following: Bacs, Faster Payments, CHAPS, SWIFT, SEPA, cheques
- Ability to discuss scheme rules, settlement cycles, messaging flows, operational constraints and compliance obligations in detail
ISO 20022
- Deep understanding of ISO 20022 including message structure, mandatory and optional elements, data modelling, mapping, validation and cross scheme differences
- Experience designing or reviewing solutions that implement ISO 20022 end to end
- Architecture and solution design
- Significant experience as a Solution Architect in complex financial services environments
- Ability to produce clear functional architecture, design logical components and define interactions between systems
- Experience balancing business outcomes with long term technical strategy
- Experience governing technical designs produced by engineering teams
Soft skills and behaviours
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement abilities
- Practical, delivery focused mindset
- Able to operate independently in a fast-moving environment
- Evidence of thought leadership, ownership and initiative
Desirable:
- Knowledge of BIAN, TOGAF, ArchiMate or C4
- Experience with Avolution Abacus or similar architecture tools
- Familiarity with microservices, API integration patterns and cloud concepts such as AWS
- Exposure to global banking environments or large scale payment transformations
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