Senior Solution Architect: Payments & Cloud for Government

scrumconnect ltd; Swansea; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Scrumconnect Consulting, a UK-based digital transformation partner, seeks a Senior Solution Architect to lead design for a major UK government client. The role operates in a complex estate, balancing legacy systems with modern cloud services to deliver secure, scalable citizen-focused solutions.

You will collaborate with multidisciplinary agile teams, shaping patterns and governance while ensuring security and long-term maintainability for millions of users.

Qualifications

• Hands-on architecture experience with payment systems and Open Banking.
• Practical understanding of data integrity, idempotency and webhook reliability in high-volume services.
• Experience architecting across mixed estates, integrating core systems with cloud services.
• Strong delivery lifecycle architecture experience from discovery to live.
• Ability to document decisions using ADRs and trade-off analyses.
• Translate business needs into technical directions.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform and modern integration patterns.

Responsibilities

• Own the solution design for a complex service and its dependencies.
• Design migration and integration approaches between legacy systems and cloud services.
• Design and assure end-to-end payment journeys including banking integrations.
• Produce high-level designs and decisions for squads to implement.
• Collaborate with engineering squads through design reviews and planning.
• Engage senior stakeholders across the engagement, including security functions.
• Shape reference architectures and govern design assurance.
• Frame problems clearly to select appropriate delivery paths.

Skills

Payment systems

Open Banking

ADR decisions

Cloud platforms

Stakeholder communication

Security & data protection

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Scrumconnect Consulting, a UK-based digital transformation partner, seeks a Senior Solution Architect to lead design for a major UK government client. The role operates in a complex estate, balancing legacy systems with modern cloud services to deliver secure, scalable citizen-focused solutions.

You will collaborate with multidisciplinary agile teams, shaping patterns and governance while ensuring security and long-term maintainability for millions of users.