Senior Solution Architect - Payments | S4

Santander; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Santander seeks a Senior Solution Architect to enhance its Payments & Cards Architecture Team. This role is vital for guiding the functional architecture of payment applications, ensuring alignment with business strategies, and driving change through innovative solutions. Join a community dedicated to transforming banking technology to meet evolving customer needs. This position supports hybrid arrangements, providing flexibility while maintaining a minimum office presence.

Benefits

Discretionary performance-related annual bonus

8% salary contribution to pension

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

£6,000 car allowance annually

Company funded private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Experience with payments processing, gateways, and industry standards like ISO 20022.
• Proven track record in architecture design and stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and lead teams.

Responsibilities

• Produce functional architecture for payment projects.
• Review engineering designs and validate alignment with strategies.
• Work with the engineering community to deliver sustainable solutions.

Skills

Payments processing

Architecture design

Stakeholder management

Project management

Team leadership

Education

Relevant degree (e.g., Computer Science)

Tools

Architecture tools like Avolution Abacus

Job description

Senior Solution Architect - Payments | S4

Senior Solution Architect - Payments | S4Country: United Kingdom

Interested in part-time, job-share or flexible working? We want to talk to you!

Join our community.

A fantastic opportunity is available to join the Payments & Cards Architecture Team as a Senior Solution Architect. This is an exciting time for the payments technology teams, as we transform how we operate within the Bank alongside the Payments Centre of Excellence and key suppliers to meet evolving customer expectations and industry changes.

The team concentrates on the functional architecture of applications and how they interact with other systems and works as an architecture community across domains, sharing reusable patterns and solutions learnt on projects, independently of projects and domains.

We are building a motivated team with big goals, so we seek individuals who are truly passionate about their work and possess the enthusiasm to make things happen. If you share our passion for technology and payments, come join us and deliver!

The difference you’ll make:

• Producing functional architecture for projects
• Reviewing the designs that have been produced by engineering teams, using guidance and patterns that have been provided to them by architecture
• Validating that solutions align to the strategies of Santander UK and Group
• Balancing business requirements with functional and technical strategy
• Working with the wider engineering community to deliver sustainable solutions

What you’ll bring:

These are the essential requirements you need to be successful in this role:

• Knowledge and experience of payments processing, covering all stages, including execution, gateways, MT Swift Messaging and industry standards, including ISO 20022
• Significant experience of architecture design, defining and documenting pragmatic architectures, that balance business requirements with functional and technical strategy
• Experience working with stakeholders to help define and deliver strategic objectives and roadmaps
• A passion for driving change by creating practical, workable architectures aligned to IT principles and following appropriate governance
• Knowledge of planning and organizing concepts and best practices with the ability to manage multiple projects
• Experience in line management or team leadership

It would also be nice for you to have:

• Knowledge & experience of international payments and CBPR+
• Working knowledge of the BIAN framework, TOGAF, ArchiMate and the C4 model
• Experience of using architecture tools such as Avolution Abacus
• Knowledge & experience of APIs and microservices

What else you need to know:

Our preferred location for this permanent role is Unity Place - Milton Keynes, but we’ll also consider locating the role in Bradford or Glasgow.

We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).

If you apply for this role in this location, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location.

We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.

If you’re interested in this role but with part time hours or a job-share we would still love to hear from you and discuss these.

Application process

If your application is successful a member of our recruitment team will be in touch. We will arrange a short call with you to learn more about you and what you are looking for from your next career move, as well as answer any questions you have about working in the Santander tech team. If both sides agree we will send your CV to the hiring manager to review. For this position, the interview process will be :–

1st Stage – A 60 minute virtual interview consisting of competency and some technical questions

2nd Stage – A 60 minute face to face, or virtual interview (depending on your circumstances), consisting of technical questions and covering you Payments domain knowledge

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, please let us know.

Inclusion

At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.

How we’ll reward you.

As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus.
• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.
• £6,000 car allowance per year.
• Company funded individual private medical insurance.
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, and health assessments.
• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.
• Share in Santander’s success by saving or investing in our share plans.
• As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services.

Learn more about our benefits and family friendly policies

What to do next:-

If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through telephone, email, or face to face. You can contact us at [e-mail] or call 0870 414 9080.

About the company

Our work touches 140 million lives every day. How? By always innovating, sharing our experiences, questioning how we do things and adapting to new challenges.As we keep reinventing ourselves for the digital age, you’ll find that with us, even your smallest action will have a massive impact. That’s the Santander Effect.

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