Payments Solution Architect
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TekWissen is a global workforce management provider throughout Uk and many other countries in the world. The below client is all about the journey helping you explore new challenges in a place where you can be your best self. With plenty of exciting twists turns and opportunities along the way
Job Title: Payments Solution Architect
Location: Fenchurch Street London EC3M 4BT
Duration: 4 Months
Work Type: Hybrid
Position Description:
- We are seeking an experienced Payments Solution Architect with deep hands-on expertise in payments migration scheme integration and core payment processing environments.
- This role requires a specialist architect with proven delivery experience across the country and international payment schemes rather than a generic enterprise architecture background.
- You will play a key role in delivering migration and transformation initiatives ensuring resilient and compliant payment processing with minimal disruption to live operations.
Key Responsibilities
Payments Migration & Transformation
- Lead architecture workstreams for complex payments migration programmes.
- Define target-state solution designs and migration approaches.
- Minimise risk to live payment processing during migration activities.
- Identify delivery risks early and drive mitigation plans.
Scheme Integration & Processing
Provide architecture leadership across payment schemes including:
- BACS
- Faster Payments (FPS)
- SWIFT
- SEPA
End-to-End Payment Flows
- Design and support components across the payment lifecycle including:
- Gateway / Connectivity layers (SWIFT MQ scheme interfaces)
- Clearing & Settlement flows
- Core Payment Engine / Processing Logic
- Message Transformation & Routing
- Reconciliation & Downstream Processing
Risk Controls & Assurance
- Ensure solutions align with regulatory and operational control standards.
- Apply frameworks such as CASS and CISA-aligned controls.
- Support audit readiness governance and assurance activities.
Legacy Systems & Technical Architecture
- Work within legacy and non-standard environments.
- Reconcile documented versus actual production behaviour.
- Deliver practical solutions within technical constraints.
- Support mainframe-integrated messaging architectures and MT/MX transformation layers.
Stakeholder Management
- Collaborate with SMEs engineering teams operations and programme leadership.
- Document architecture decisions assumptions dependencies and risks.
- Ensure alignment across delivery architecture and operations teams.
Mandatory Skills & Experience
- Senior-level experience leading Payments Migration within PMI programmes.
- Strong architecture/design experience in core payments processing systems.
- Deep expertise in client location payment schemes: BACS FPS.
- Strong international payments experience: SWIFT SEPA.
- Proven leadership in payments risk controls and assurance frameworks.
- Strong understanding of real-world payment lifecycles and production flows.
- Experience with legacy systems and constrained environments.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Desirable Skills
- Mainframe integration experience
- IBM MQ / Messaging Middleware
- MT/MX message standards
- High-volume transaction systems
- Large-scale transformation programmes
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity
