Senior Payments Infrastructure Architect- London

FDM Group Ltd.; City of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm in the UK is seeking a Senior Payments Infrastructure Architect for a hybrid role based in London. This position involves leading the design and development of retail payments infrastructure solutions and requires at least 10 years of experience in a similar role. The successful candidate will exhibit strong leadership and collaboration skills, ensuring alignment with business goals. Join a rapidly growing organization that values diversity and offers career growth opportunities.

Benefits

Career coaching and mentoring

Assignments with global companies

Annual leave

Work-place pension

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience in a similar role.
• Proven track record as a Payments Infrastructure Architect.
• Strong understanding of enterprise-level payments systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of retail payments infrastructure solutions.
• Define and enforce technical standards and architectural frameworks.
• Collaborate closely with domain experts and stakeholders.

Skills

Payments Infrastructure Architecture

Leadership

Collaboration

Stakeholder Engagement

Technical Standards Definition

Job description

About The Role

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Senior Payments Infrastructure Architect to work for our client within the professional services sector. This is initially a 6 month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in London, though the client is open to candidates across the UK for the right fit.

Our client is seeking a Senior Payments Infrastructure Architect to support a high-priority RFP engagement. This role requires deep technical expertise in designing and leading retail payments systems architecture, with a strong emphasis on leadership and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of retail payments infrastructure solutions
• Define and enforce technical standards and architectural frameworks
• Act as a design authority, guiding technical decisions and ensuring alignment with business goals
• Collaborate closely with domain experts and stakeholders to deliver robust, scalable solutions
• Provide architectural leadership across solution and enterprise domains

About You

• Minimum 10 years of experience in a similar role and proven track record as a Payments Infrastructure Architect, ideally in retail payments
• Experience setting architectural standards and frameworks
• Demonstrated leadership in architecture roles (e.g., Head of Architecture, Architecture Lead)
• Strong understanding of enterprise-level payments systems
• Ability to distinguish between solution and enterprise architecture and operate effectively in both
• Collaborative mindset with excellent stakeholder engagement skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in account-to-account payments, real-time schemes, cross-border payments
• Familiarity with both acquiring and issuing sides of card payments

About Us

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 2,500 employees. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.

Why join us

• Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
• Annual leave and work-place pension