Enterprise Architect – Cards & Payments - Consumer Banking*
Posted 2 weeks ago by GIOS Technology
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Northampton, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Enterprise Architect will define and own the technology strategy and architecture for Consumer Banking & Payments, focusing on Cards and Payment Gateways. This role involves collaborating with senior stakeholders to align business and technology goals, while delivering innovative solutions and ensuring compliance with group standards. The architect will also evaluate technology trends and lead technical investigations to support the organization's strategic objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define technology strategy, roadmaps, and vision aligned with wider Group standards.
- Collaborate with business units to ensure technology services are customer-centric, delivering innovative and progressive products.
- Evaluate technology trends and market changes to determine architectural impact.
- Lead technical investigations, conduct briefings, and create proofs of concept for emerging technologies.
- Deliver architecture services including developing domain-specific technology strategies and architectures.
- Create target and transition architectures to enable business success.
- Review end-to-end solutions including functional and technical designs with architectural governance.
- Evaluate current environments to identify deficiencies and recommend resilient, scalable solutions.
- Ensure compliance with group policies, regulations, and standards.
- Partner with Engineering, Architecture, Operations & Technology (O&T), and business teams to coordinate technology investments.
- Manage technical debt and ensure alignment with target state architecture.
- Maintain deep knowledge of relevant core-level technologies to serve as a Subject Matter Expert.
- Define and promote best practices and anti-patterns in technology application.
Key Skills:
- In-depth expertise in the Cards & Payments industry, including market trends and future developments.
- Proven ability to architect and deliver end-to-end commercial solutions, including cross-technology and infrastructure integrations across Consumer Banking & Payments domains.
- Strong strategic mindset with focus on cost efficiency, innovation, collaboration, and customer experience.
- Extensive hands-on enterprise architecture experience in banking or financial services environments.
- Deep technical expertise with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure), microservices architecture, APIs, messaging systems, data transformation, ETL, infrastructure, monitoring tools, and security solutions.
- Ability to distil complex technical topics for non-technical stakeholders in a clear and concise way.
- Knowledge of secure system design, resilience, and high-availability for mission-critical applications, including multi-data centre deployments.
- Strong experience working across distributed technologies, with hands-on involvement in technical issue resolution alongside Lead Architects, Solution Architects, and Development teams.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Northampton
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Role Description: As an Enterprise Architect , you will own and define the technology strategy and architecture for one or more domain areas in Consumer Banking & Payments , with a particular focus on Cards and Payment Gateways . You will apply enterprise architecture techniques to align business and technology goals, working closely with CIOs, Business Architects, and senior stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define technology strategy, roadmaps, and vision aligned with wider Group standards.
- Collaborate with business units to ensure technology services are customer-centric , delivering innovative and progressive products .
- Evaluate technology trends and market changes to determine architectural impact.
- Lead technical investigations , conduct briefings, and create proofs of concept for emerging technologies.
- Deliver architecture services including: Developing domain-specific technology strategies and architectures.
- Creating target and transition architectures to enable business success.
- Reviewing end-to-end solutions including functional and technical designs with architectural governance.
- Evaluating current environments to identify deficiencies and recommend resilient, scalable solutions .
- Ensuring compliance with group policies, regulations, and standards .
- Partnering with Engineering, Architecture, Operations & Technology (O&T) , and business teams to coordinate technology investments .
- Managing technical debt and ensuring alignment with target state architecture .
- Maintaining deep knowledge of relevant core-level technologies to serve as a Subject Matter Expert .
- Defining and promoting best practices and anti-patterns in technology application.
Required Skills & Experience:
- In-depth expertise in the Cards & Payments industry, including market trends and future developments.
- Proven ability to architect and deliver end-to-end commercial solutions , including cross-technology and infrastructure integrations across Consumer Banking & Payments domains.
- Strong strategic mindset with focus on cost efficiency, innovation, collaboration , and customer experience .
- Extensive hands-on enterprise architecture experience in banking or financial services environments.
- Deep technical expertise with: Cloud platforms (AWS / Azure) Microservices architecture , APIs, messaging systems Data transformation , ETL Infrastructure , Monitoring tools , and Security solutions
- Ability to distil complex technical topics for non-technical stakeholders in a clear and concise way.
- Knowledge of secure system design , resilience , and high-availability for mission-critical applications, including multi-data centre deployments.
- Strong experience working across distributed technologies , with hands-on involvement in technical issue resolution alongside Lead Architects, Solution Architects , and Development teams .