Enterprise Architect

We are partnered with a leading financial organisation undergoing significant growth and transformation and are seeking an experienced Enterprise Payments Architect to support the evolution of their technology landscape.

This is a high-impact role responsible for defining and driving architecture strategy across a complex payments ecosystem. The successful candidate will work closely with business, product, engineering, operations, and executive stakeholders to design scalable, resilient, and secure payment solutions that align with long-term business objectives.

• 6 Month Initial contract
• C2C or W2
• Competitive Hourly rate
• Onsite requirements in Boston, * Define and maintain enterprise architecture standards, principles, and target-state roadmaps.
• Lead architecture design for complex payments platforms and transaction processing systems.
• Drive integration architecture across internal platforms, third-party vendors, banking partners, and payment networks.
• Provide strategic guidance on modernisation, cloud adoption, scalability, resilience, and security.
• Evaluate existing architecture and identify opportunities for optimisation and technical improvement.
• Partner with engineering and delivery teams to ensure architectural alignment throughout implementation.
• Support regulatory, compliance, risk, and operational requirements within the payments environment.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior business and technology stakeholders.

• Extensive experience as an Enterprise Architect, Chief Architect, Solution Architect, or Payments Architect within financial services, fintech, or payments organisations.
• Deep knowledge of payments processing, payment gateways, transaction flows, settlement, reconciliation, and related ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of modern architecture frameworks and best practices.
• Experience designing large-scale distributed systems and integration platforms.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies, APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, and modern integration patterns.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to engage executive audiences.

Preferred Experience

• Card payments, merchant acquiring, issuing, digital wallets, ACH, RTP, wire payments,
• Enterprise transformation and modernisation programmes.
• High-volume transaction processing environments.
• Financial services and regulated industry experience.