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TheAcquiring & Payments Lead Architect is accountable for defining and assuring the end‑to‑end technology architecture across Merchant Acquiring and Payments platforms, enabling Barclays to operate secure, resilient, and scalable payment services for clients globally.
The role leads architectural strategy across complex legacy estates and modern cloud‑native fintech platforms, guiding large‑scale platform migrations and integration programmes.
Acting as a trusted advisor to Executive and C‑suite stakeholders, the role provides clear, outcome‑focused architectural recommendations that balance business growth, cost, resilience, regulatory compliance, and technology modernisation.
This role plays a critical part in shaping Barclays’ long‑term payments landscape, ensuring architectural decisions support strategic objectives while reducing risk and technical debt.
To be successful as a Acquiring & Payments Lead Solution Architect you should have:
• Deep expertise in payments and merchant acquiring architecture, including POS, eCommerce, gateway integrations, and scheme connectivity within high-volume, low-latency environments
• Strong experience designing and delivering complex architectures across legacy and cloud-native platforms, including microservices, APIs, containerisation, and event-driven systems
• Proven ability to engage with senior stakeholders, including C-suite, translating complex architectural decisions into clear business outcomes
Some other highly valued skills may include:
• Strong understanding of regulatory and security requirements within payments, including PCI-DSS, operational resilience, and data governance
• Experience with modern engineering practices including DevOps, cloud adoption strategies, and large-scale platform migration programmes
• Expertise in complex data architectures, including transaction processing, reconciliation, auditability, and integration across distributed system
hackajob is partnering with Barclays to fill this position. Create a profile to be automatically considered for this role—and others that match your experience.