Solution Architect - Enterprise Technology - FTC - BPL

Solution Architect - Payments Enterprise Technology - FTC 18 months - BPL

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A fantastic opportunity to join us as we create a standalone Payments Acquiring business embracing a fintech culture from our new offices alongside our Brookfield partners. This is an exciting time to join a unique project well suited to candidates who thrive in a fast paced, flat organisation with significant autonomy.

Enterprise Technology will be replacing a complex, largely on‑premise technology stack with a clean new SaaS landscape for Finance, Risk, HR and Functions IT. We require an exceptional Solutions Architect to drive design and integration across that landscape.

This is an 18‑month Fixed Term Contract role to drive the build out of the new stack. During this time, we will be defining the go‑forward model for Enterprise Technology and anticipate a variety of permanent roles will become available.

• Demonstrable senior level experience designing SaaS‑focussed architectures.
• Experience in one or more of Finance, HR or Functions technology domains.
• Experience onboarding SaaS vendors and deploying SaaS products in financial services or fintech.

• Experience in fintech or smaller organisations for scale‑appropriate solutions.
• Highly pro‑active and self‑sufficient.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.

The successful candidate will be based in London
. Our offices are located at 1 Churchill Place and 7 Westferry Circus (new BPL office). We support a hybrid working pattern with 3 days per week office‑based presence expected.

Barclays’ payments acceptance business provides critical infrastructure to the UK economy, processing billions of pounds of payments annually for both small businesses and domestic and international corporate clients.

In April 2025, we announced a long‑term partnership with Brookfield Asset Management to grow and transform the payments acceptance business by broadening the range of services offered and enhancing the experience for both existing and prospective clients.

Barclays will invest approximately £400m in the new business, the majority of which will be incurred during the first three years. Performance‑linked incentives will drive greater alignment between the partners, underpinning the long‑term commitment to the transformation.

To design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements, and design and implement solutions that meet those needs while balancing technology risks against business delivery, driving consistency.

• Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling. This includes identification and implementation of technologies and platforms.
• Targeted design activities that apply an appropriate workload placement strategy and maximise the benefit of cloud capabilities such as elasticity, serverless, containerisation etc.
• Best practice designs incorporating security principles (such as defence in depth and reduction of blast radius) that meet the Bank’s resiliency expectations.
• Solutions that appropriately balance risks and controls to deliver the agreed business and technology value.
• Adoption of standardised solutions where they fit. If no standard solutions fit, feed into their ongoing evolution where appropriate.
• Fault finding and performance issues support to operational support teams, leveraging available tooling.
• Solution design impact assessment in terms of risk, capacity and cost impact, including estimation of project change and ongoing run costs.
• Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the banks governance processes, including design artefacts required for architecture, privacy, security and records management governance processes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Mid‑Senior level

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Engineering and Information Technology

Banking and Financial Services