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# Enterprise Architect

- **Company:** DAVIES TALENT, LLC
- **Location:** Boston, MA, United States
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Application Integration Architecture, Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Payment Systems, Transaction Processing (Computing), Event Driven Architecture, Integration Frameworks, Cloud Migration, Microservices
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_5e5b4e4dc224030c77780aa4e293a9b9

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

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.