IPF Solution Architect — Payments Platform & Architecture

Icon Solutions Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Icon Solutions is seeking a Solution Architect to lead end-to-end architecture for the Icon Payments Framework (IPF). You will drive solution roadmaps, review designs, and translate business needs into scalable technical architectures for complex, real-time systems.

You will collaborate with clients, product owners, and engineering squads, ensuring security and regulatory requirements are met. A strong backend (Java) background and hands-on architecture experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a Solution Architect/Technical Architect/Lead Engineer role within financial services or payments technology.
• Ability to design end-to-end architectures for highly concurrent, real‑time transactional systems.
• Experience in conceptual, application, integration, and physical modelling.
• Ability to translate functional and non‑functional requirements into architectures.
• Strong back‑end development background (Java) and familiarity with patterns and techniques.
• Experience with Agile, TDD, BDD, CI/CD, DevOps, Cloud, and Microservices Architecture.
• Interest in new technologies and architecture styles with security awareness.
• Familiarity with Payments Industry and regulatory landscape from technical/business perspectives.
• Excellent consulting and stakeholder management in multi‑team client environments.

Responsibilities

• Support pre‑sales proposals with architecture approaches and estimations.
• Review and enrich solution designs for engineering teams, including skeleton payment flows.
• Translate business requirements and non‑functional needs into technical designs.
• Collaborate with clients, squads and product owners to implement features.
• Conduct architecture reviews and communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Organise design authority workshops with clients and IPF stakeholders.
• Participate in technical governance committees and manage architectural risks.
• Create and maintain structured solution documentation and deployment views.
• Engage with product teams to validate feasibility and align with roadmaps.
• Track dependencies and keep the project informed of risks and issues.
• Contribute to IPF practice through knowledge sharing and pattern documentation.

Skills

Solution architecture leadership

Payments technology domain

End-to-end architecture design

Event-driven architectures

Back-end development (Java)

Agile, DevOps, CI/CD

Stakeholder management

Modelling (conceptual, logical, phys)

Tools

IPF connectors

Node design patterns

Job description

Icon Solutions is seeking a Solution Architect to lead end-to-end architecture for the Icon Payments Framework (IPF). You will drive solution roadmaps, review designs, and translate business needs into scalable technical architectures for complex, real-time systems.

You will collaborate with clients, product owners, and engineering squads, ensuring security and regulatory requirements are met. A strong backend (Java) background and hands-on architecture experience are essential.