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# Solutions Architect

- **Company:** Hays plc
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £100,000.0 - £150,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Online Banking, Routing, PCI Data Security Standards, Api Design
- **Published:** October 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=3005740301-2

## About the Role

* Significant experience in Solution Architecture, Technical Consulting, Solutions Engineering or Technical Pre-Sales.
 * Strong payments industry background.
 * Experience working with payment orchestration, PSPs, acquiring and payment routing.
 * Strong understanding of Visa, Mastercard and alternative payment methods.
 * Experience designing and delivering API-based integrations.
 * Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
 * Proven ability to bridge technical and commercial discussions.

Highly Desirable

 * Experience with payment orchestration platforms.
 * Knowledge of PCI DSS, PSD2, Open Banking and 3DS2.
 * Experience within the travel, hospitality or airline sectors.
 * Previous experience supporting enterprise sales opportunities.

## Description

Join a high-growth payments technology business as a customer-facing Solution Architect, leading enterprise solution design for global merchants and helping shape complex payment integrations from discovery through to delivery. We're looking for a payments specialist with strong experience across payment orchestration, PSPs, acquiring, routing and API integration architecture, combined with excellent stakeholder and pre-sales engagement skills., * Lead technical discovery workshops and solution design sessions with customers.

 * Translate business requirements into scalable, enterprise-grade technical solutions.
 * Support enterprise sales opportunities, RFPs and customer presentations.
 * Design payment architectures across orchestration, acquiring, routing and payment methods.
 * Create API integration strategies and technical solution documentation.
 * Partner with Product and Engineering teams to ensure solutions are technically viable and aligned to product strategy.
 * Present technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership teams.
 * Act as a trusted advisor throughout the customer lifecycle.