Enterprise Architect – Payments / Digital / Banking
Posted Today by Robert Half
£85 Per hour
Inside
Hybrid
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Enterprise Architect focuses on leading a large-scale transformation in digital channels, UK payments, and credit-risk platforms for a major consulting partner. The position requires collaboration with C-suite stakeholders and involves overseeing architecture strategy, domain road-mapping, and regulatory design. The architect will provide senior oversight and design assurance across multiple program workstreams. This is a hands-on role that demands a strong background in enterprise architecture within the banking sector.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and oversee domain strategy across payments, digital channels, and risk.
- Support the Chief Architect with target-state modelling and integration approaches.
- Ensure data and API governance and alignment to regulatory and operational standards.
- Provide architectural oversight and design assurance to delivery teams.
- Govern architectural standards, patterns, and decision frameworks.
- Collaborate with senior business, engineering, and security stakeholders.
- Shape architecture roadmaps, capability models, and target-state domains.
- Complete contracts without jumping.
Key Skills:
- Strong background in enterprise architecture within banking.
- Experience with UK Payments (BACS, CHAPS, FPS, card issuing/acquiring, tokenisation, EMVCo, 3DS).
- Knowledge of digital channels (mobile/web architecture, identity, OAuth2, OIDC, RBA).
- Expertise in credit-risk architecture (decisioning engines, modelling platforms, governance).
- Demonstrable leadership in complex platform redesign and integration.
- Familiarity with architectural tooling such as Abacus, Sparx EA or equivalent.
- Ability to collaborate with senior stakeholders.
- Proven track record of completing contracts successfully.
Salary (Rate): £85.00/hr
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Enterprise Architect – Payments / Digital / Banking
Robert Half (an S&P 500 global staffing firm) is supporting a major consulting partner in sourcing senior Enterprise Architects to support a large-scale transformation across digital channels, UK payments, and credit-risk platforms. This work spans architecture strategy, domain road-mapping, complex regulatory design, and cross-platform integration. You will work directly with Chief Architect and C-suite stakeholders across a wide enterprise change agenda.
Assignment Details
- Initial Duration : 3 to 6 months
- Location : Hybrid with UK hours (flexible on-site as required)
- Day Rate : £600 to £700 per day via FCSA umbrella accredited company
- Start Date : January
Key Skills and Experience
- Strong background in enterprise architecture within banking is essential
- UK Payments (BACS, CHAPS, FPS, card issuing/acquiring, tokenisation, EMVCo, 3DS)
- Digital channels (mobile/web architecture, identity, OAuth2, OIDC, RBA)
- Credit-risk architecture (decisioning engines, modelling platforms, governance)
- Experience shaping architecture roadmaps, capability models and target-state domains
- Demonstrable leadership across complex platform redesign, integration, and regulatory uplift
- Proven ability to govern architectural standards, patterns and decision frameworks
- Strong familiarity with tooling such as Abacus, Sparx EA or equivalent
- Ability to collaborate with senior business, engineering and security stakeholders
- Track record of completing contracts without jumping
Role Overview
In this assignment, you will join a high-performing architecture function to define and oversee domain strategy across payments, digital channels and risk. You will support the Chief Architect with target-state modelling, integration approaches, data and API governance, and alignment to regulatory and operational standards. This is not a hands-off role. You will bring senior architectural oversight, provide design assurance, challenge delivery teams appropriately, and ensure architectural coherence across multiple programme workstreams.
Screening: All candidates must pass standard screening including Right to Work, employment verification and credit/criminal checks. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Enterprise Architect to influence high-value change at a pivotal point in the transformation agenda.