Fintech Solution Architect – Payments & Open Banking

Hyperlayer; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

25 days annual leave + birthday off

Critical illness and life insurance

Health insurance

Job summary

Hyperlayer, the intelligent banking platform, seeks a Solution Architect to design scalable, secure payment and banking solutions for clients. You’ll translate business needs into robust technical designs, lead client workshops, and ensure governance and compliance across cloud-native architectures.

A strong fintech/payments background, client-facing experience, and excellence in communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect in fintech/payments.
• Experience with cloud-native or cloud-agnostic architectures (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Experience with API design, microservices and event-driven systems.
• Familiarity with security and PCI-DSS in financial services.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Experience in agile/DevOps environments.
• Experience using AI tools for design and discovery (Claude / Copilot).

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure payment and banking solutions.
• Engage directly with external clients to understand needs and propose architectures.
• Collaborate with product, engineering and compliance teams on solutions.
• Lead client solution workshops and architecture reviews.
• Evaluate third-party APIs and payment gateways for interoperability.
• Develop architecture documentation, diagrams, and standards.
• Provide technical leadership through delivery.
• Support pre-sales activity with technical input.

Skills

Solution Architecture fintech

Client-facing experience

Cloud-native / cloud-agnostic

API design & microservices

Security & PCI-DSS

Strong communication

Agile / DevOps

AI tooling (Claude / Copilot)

Tools

Terraform

Open Banking APIs

Card scheme integrations

Job description

Hyperlayer, the intelligent banking platform, seeks a Solution Architect to design scalable, secure payment and banking solutions for clients. You’ll translate business needs into robust technical designs, lead client workshops, and ensure governance and compliance across cloud-native architectures.

A strong fintech/payments background, client-facing experience, and excellence in communication are essential.