Solution Architect - Enterprise Technology - FTC - BPL

A fantastic opportunity to join us as we create a standalone Payments Acquiring business embracing afintechnology 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 design and integrate 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 anticipating a variety of permanent roles that will become available.

To be successful in this role, you will need the following:

• Demonstrable senior level experience designing SaaS‑focused 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.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

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

You may be assessed on 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, enhancing the experience for both existing and prospective clients.

Leveraging extensive client relationships and deep experience of UK payments, we will create an environment of continuous innovation - activated by Brookfield’s global private equity expertise in payments, technology, operational transformation and corporate carve‑outs - to ensure the business is strategically positioned for long‑term growth. 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. Barclays and Brookfield will work to create a standalone entity over time, continuing to use the Barclaycard Payments (BPL) brand and acting as the sole payments acceptance services provider to Barclays’ clients for a minimum of ten years. For more information on our partnership with Brookfield, please visit

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 and create solutions that balance 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 the 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…