Solution Architect – Payments / Digital / Banking
Posted Today by Robert Half
£75 Per hour
Inside
Hybrid
United Kingdom
Summary: The Solution Architect role focuses on delivering hands-on solution design and integration for digital channels, payments, and core banking systems. The position requires collaboration with engineering teams to create secure and scalable banking platforms. Candidates will be responsible for translating business requirements into technical solutions while ensuring adherence to architectural principles. This role is critical in supporting a major banking transformation project.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver solution architecture within banking.
- Design integration patterns and support digital and payments journeys.
- Shape API contracts and contribute to architectural governance.
- Work closely with engineering teams to embed robust solutions.
- Maintain high standards across security, performance, and compliance.
- Complete contracts without jumping and actively steer design decisions.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience in solution architecture within banking.
- Expertise in payments, digital channels, and core banking.
- Hands-on design of HLDs, LLDs, API specs, and sequence diagrams.
- Understanding of cloud-native architecture and microservices.
- Familiarity with architecture tooling (Sparx EA, Abacus or similar).
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to influence without authority.
Salary (Rate): £75.00/hr
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Solution Architect – Payments / Digital / Banking
Robert Half (an S&P 500 global staffing firm) is supporting a major consulting partner in sourcing experienced Solution Architects to support delivery across digital channels, payments, and core banking integration streams. The roles focus on hands-on solution design, integration patterns, API-led architecture, and working closely with engineering teams to deliver secure and scalable banking platforms.
Assignment Details
- Initial Duration : 3 to 6 months
- Location : Hybrid with UK hours (flexible on-site as required)
- Day Rate : IRO of £550 to £600 per day via FCSA umbrella accredited company
- Start Date : January
Key Skills and Experience
- Strong experience delivering solution architecture within banking
- Expertise across one or more of the following:
- Payments: card issuing/acquiring, tokenisation, EMVCo, 3DS, PSP integrations
- Digital channels: mobile/web journeys, authentication flows, API-led design
- Core banking: customer/account/transaction flows, integration, data models
- Hands-on design of HLDs, LLDs, API specs, sequence diagrams and solution options
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture, microservices and event-driven design
- Ability to work with engineering teams, security, data and ops to embed robust solutions
- Familiarity with architecture tooling (Sparx EA, Abacus or similar)
- Strong interpersonal style, adaptable, low ego, and able to influence without authority
- Track record of completing contracts without jumping
Role Overview
In this assignment, you will join an established architecture and engineering group to translate business and regulatory requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions. You will design integration patterns, support digital and payments journeys, shape API contracts, and contribute to architectural governance across the programme. This is not a tick-box role. You will actively steer design decisions, ensure engineering teams are aligned to architectural principles, and maintain high standards across security, performance and compliance.
Screening: All candidates must pass standard screening including Right to Work, employment verification and credit/criminal checks. This is an excellent opportunity for a seasoned Solution Architect to support a major banking transformation at a critical stage.