Enterprise Architect (Payments), Greater Manchester

Job Title

Enterprise Architect (Payments, Digital Finance & Economic Crime)

Salary

£72,700 – £80,780

Location

Edinburgh, Leeds or Manchester

Hours & Working Pattern

Full time, hybrid (40% in office – 2 days a week)

About this opportunity

We are looking for an Enterprise Architect to join our Group Payments team and play a key role in shaping and delivering our Technology Strategy. Working closely with senior architects and business stakeholders, you’ll support the development of architectural direction that enables the Group’s strategic ambitions. You’ll help translate strategy into practical architecture outcomes, ensuring solutions are aligned to our technology principles, business priorities and risk appetite. Group Payments is a critical part of the Group’s growth strategy.

Responsibilities

• 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

Qualifications

What you’ll need:

• 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

Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• Annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid working, Job Share

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion, supporting our customers, colleagues and communities. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns, and we are a Disability Confident Leader.

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