Card Solutions Architects - Contract role - Sheffield - Immediate

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We are seeking two highly experienced and Senior Solution Architects with deep expertise in card processing platforms to drive architecture and design across a large-scale commercial cards ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities Own and deliver end-to-end solution architecture for card-based systems, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles and platform roadmaps

Translate business requirements (BRDs) into solution designs , decomposing into MVPs, epics, and detailed technical stories

Design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure architectures across distributed systems

Define integration patterns (REST APIs, messaging, event-driven architecture) across internal platforms and external partners

Provide hands-on architectural leadership to engineering teams, ensuring design consistency and adherence to standards

Govern solutions through architecture review boards , ensuring compliance with security, data, and infrastructure standards

Identify and mitigate technical risks , including performance, scalability, and security concerns

Collaborate with vendors and third parties to define interoperability models and integration contracts

Contribute to technology strategy , including cloud adoption, modernization, and legacy transformation initiatives

Promote adoption of modern engineering practices including microservices, API-first design, and domain-driven design

Required Experience 15+ years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture , with a strong focus on banking and payments systems

Deep domain knowledge of card processing systems (e.g., authorization, clearing, settlement, dispute management)

Proven experience designing high-throughput, low-latency transactional systems

Experience operating within large-scale, matrixed enterprise environments

Strong background in cloud-native architecture (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including relevant certifications

Demonstrated ability to handle complex, ambiguous technical problems and translate them into structured solutions

Strong stakeholder engagement across business, engineering, and infrastructure teams

Technical Skills Architecture & Design: Microservices, event-driven architecture, domain-driven design (DDD), layered architecture

Integration: RESTful APIs, OpenAPI specs, messaging systems (Kafka, MQ), asynchronous processing

Cloud & Infrastructure: Cloud-native design, containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines

Data: Distributed data systems, RDBMS/NoSQL, data modelling, data consistency patterns

Security: Secure-by-design principles, IAM, encryption, threat modelling, regulatory compliance

Resilience: High availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, observability (logging, monitoring, tracing)

Channels: Experience designing across web, mobile, API gateways, and backend orchestration layers

Legacy Integration: Exposure to mainframe systems (desirable but not essential)

Additional Capabilities Strong focus on cybersecurity and secure architecture practices

Experience designing mission-critical systems with strict uptime and performance SLAs

Ability to mentor engineers and architects, driving technical best practices and governance

Comfortable working across global teams with distributed stakeholders

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Location:
Sheffield
Salary:
not provided
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
IT

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