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Barclays is seeking a Lead Solution Architect for its Acquiring & Payments division, responsible for developing and evolving the bank's technology architecture to align with business and technology objectives. The ideal candidate should possess deep expertise in payments architecture and experience in designing complex architectures across legacy and cloud-native platforms.
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Job Summary
The role is accountable for defining and assuring the end-to-end technology architecture across Merchant Acquiring and Payments platforms to enable secure, resilient, and scalable services globally.
Acting as a trusted advisor to Executive and C-suite stakeholders, the architect provides clear recommendations that balance business growth, cost, resilience, and regulatory compliance.
This position leads architectural strategy across complex legacy estates and modern cloud-native fintech platforms, guiding large-scale platform migrations and integration programmes.
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Barclays is seeking a Lead Solution Architect for its Acquiring & Payments division, responsible for developing and evolving the bank's technology architecture to align with business and technology objectives. The ideal candidate should possess deep expertise in payments architecture and experience in designing complex architectures across legacy and cloud-native platforms.
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Skills & Requirements
Must-have
Deep expertise in payments architecture
Merchant acquiring and gateway integrations
Legacy and cloud-native platform design
Microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems
Senior stakeholder engagement skills
Nice-to-have
PCI-DSS and operational resilience knowledge
DevOps and large-scale migration experience
Complex data architecture for reconciliation
Mentoring and team leadership capabilities
Strategic thinking and digital transformation
Key Requirements
Proven ability to engage with senior stakeholders
Experience designing complex architectures across legacy and cloud-native platforms
Deep understanding of regulatory and security requirements within payments