Payment Solution Architect

Ascendion

Bromley, Greater London

Job Description:

* We are seeking a Payment Solution Architect with deep experience in banking and payments to own architecture decisions for a suite of payment applications. The role focuses on defining end-to-end solution designs, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards, and guiding delivery teams to build scalable, secure, and high-performance payment systems.

Key Responsibilities:

Own and drive architecture design and decisions across multiple payment applications.

Define solution vision, system interactions, interfaces, and non-functional requirements.

Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, governance standards, and regulatory requirements.

Lead architecture trade-off decisions covering scalability, security, resilience, and availability.

Act as a trusted advisor to technology leadership, product owners, and delivery teams.

Drive adoption of architecture standards, patterns, and roadmaps.

Mentor junior architects and collaborate with global delivery teams.

Required Experience & Skills:

20+ years in IT with 10+ years in Solution Architecture.

5+ years in Banking / Financial Services, preferably Payments.

Strong expertise in microservices architecture, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), containers, Kafka, and distributed systems.

Proven experience designing high-throughput, low-latency applications.

Strong background in architecture governance, design reviews, and decision documentation.

Experience working across Agile and Waterfall delivery models

Posted 2026-02-24

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