Payments Enterprise Architect: Strategy, Cloud & APIs

Company: Jobtailor
Apply for the Payments Enterprise Architect: Strategy, Cloud & APIs
Location: City of Edinburgh
Job Description:

• Support the development and evolution of architecture within the Payments domain, ensuring alignment to Group strategy• Work closely with Lead Architects to create and maintain architecture roadmaps, patterns and guardrails• Act as a trusted partner to technology and business teams, providing architectural guidance and insight• Contribute to architecture governance, ensuring solutions meet standards, risk requirements and strategic objectives• Develop and maintain architecture artefacts, including designs, roadmaps and feasibility assessments• Apply knowledge of cloud, APIs, traditional hosting and event-driven architectures to support solution design• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in an agile environment to deliver end-to-end outcomes

Requirements

  • Experience working in an Architecture role, contributing to strategy, solution design and delivery
  • Knowledge of architecture practices including governance, roadmapping and solution development
  • Technical understanding of cloud platforms, APIs, traditional hosting and event-driven architectures
  • Ability to support business and technology stakeholders, translating requirements into architectural solutions
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with an agile and delivery-focused mindset
  • An understanding of Payments within Financial Services
  • Awareness of emerging technologies such as blockchain and digital assets and their potential application

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Hard Skills

  • architecture
  • solution design
  • cloud platforms
  • APIs
  • traditional hosting
  • event-driven architectures
  • architecture governance
  • roadmapping
  • feasibility assessments

Soft Skills

  • communication
  • collaboration
  • agile mindset
  • delivery-focused

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Posted: July 13th, 2026