Solutions Architect (Payments / Fintech Transformation)

We are supporting a newly formed, high-growth payments business backed by significant strategic investment and operating with a fintech mindset. This is a rare opportunity to join during a foundational phase, helping to design and deliver a clean, modern SaaS-first enterprise technology landscape as part of a large-scale transformation.

The organisation is creating a standalone payments acquiring business, combining the stability of an established payments operation with the pace, autonomy, and innovation culture of a fintech. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-moving, flat organisations and enjoys having genuine influence over architectural decisions., We are seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to lead the design and integration of a new enterprise applications estate, replacing a complex legacy environment with a streamlined SaaS architecture across Finance, Risk, HR and corporate functions., * Design and deliver end-to-end solutions that address complex business problems while balancing technology risk and delivery pace.

• Create SaaS-centric architectures that evolve over time and align with modern engineering and automated delivery practices.
• Lead targeted design activities that maximise the value of cloud capabilities such as elasticity, containerisation and serverless.
• Produce secure, resilient designs aligned to best-practice security principles and operational expectations.
• Ensure solutions balance risk, control, cost and business value appropriately.
• Drive adoption of standardised enterprise solutions, influencing their evolution where gaps exist.
• Support operational teams with fault-finding and performance investigations, using available tooling.
• Assess architectural impacts across risk, capacity and cost, including change and ongoing run costs.
• Produce architecture artefacts required for governance across architecture, security, privacy and records management forums.

You will bring senior-level architectural experience and be confident operating with autonomy in a transformation environment., * Proven experience designing SaaS-focused enterprise architectures spanning multiple business applications.

• Background in one or more of the following domains: Finance, Risk, HR, or corporate functions (e.g. Compliance, Legal, Procurement).
• Experience onboarding and integrating SaaS vendors within financial services or fintech environments.

Highly Valued

• Experience working in fintechs or smaller, scale-appropriate organisations.
• A highly proactive, self-sufficient mindset, comfortable making decisions and driving outcomes.

This is an 18-month fixed-term role, created to drive delivery.