Fintech Solution Architect: Payments & Open Banking Leader

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

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

25 days leave

Health insurance

Cycle-to-work

Referral bonus

Nursery scheme

Job summary

Hyperlayer in London is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to shape and scale our fintech payment and banking infrastructure. This office-based role involves collaborating with clients and internal teams to translate business needs into robust, compliant architectures.

You’ll lead design workshops, oversee the end-to-end technical delivery, and guide solutions through RFPs, ensuring security, interoperability, and regulatory alignment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect or Software Architect, fintech/payments.
• Experience working with external clients or in pre-sales capacity.
• Hands-on cloud-native or cloud-agnostic architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Expertise in API design, microservices, and event-driven systems.
• Familiarity with security and compliance requirements in financial services (PCI‑DSS).
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Comfort in agile, DevOps, or product‑driven environments.
• Comfort using AI tools to draft architecture docs and support discovery.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure, and compliant payment and banking solutions spanning card processing, payments, and open banking.
• Engage directly with external clients to understand their business and technical needs, translate them into feasible architectures, and present solution proposals.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and compliance teams to align business goals with technical solutions.
• Lead client solution workshops, technical discovery sessions, and architecture reviews.
• Evaluate and design for third‑party APIs and payment gateways, ensuring interoperability and resilience.
• Develop architecture documentation, diagrams, and standards (APIs, microservices, cloud infra).
• Provide technical leadership through delivery and ensure adherence to best practices.
• Support pre‑sales activity, including RFP responses and technical input on client proposals.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Cloud Architecture

API Design

Open Banking

PCI-DSS

Client-facing

DevOps

AI tools

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Hyperlayer in London is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to shape and scale our fintech payment and banking infrastructure. This office-based role involves collaborating with clients and internal teams to translate business needs into robust, compliant architectures.

You’ll lead design workshops, oversee the end-to-end technical delivery, and guide solutions through RFPs, ensuring security, interoperability, and regulatory alignment.