Solution Architect

Job Title: Solution Architect (Payment Gateway) - Northampton

About the Job you are considering:
Provides architectural governance, design assurance, and hands-on support across Change and Run the Bank throughout the delivery lifecycle. Acts as a trusted advisor to business and delivery stakeholders, shaping solutions, influencing strategy, and guiding sourcing and commercial decisions. Drives complex technical decision-making, roadmap definition, and enterprise alignment while maintaining deep expertise and industry best practice awareness.

Hybrid working:
The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Job Role:

• Own the development of conceptual, functional, and technical architectures for the portfolio, ensuring complete end-to-end solution accountability
• Ensure alignment of end-to-end designs across the full application delivery lifecycle, covering both application and infrastructure design and delivery
• Represent projects and solutions at Architecture Councils, driving review, challenge, and formal approval of proposed designs
• Review, challenge, and approve high-level and detailed business requirements, non-functional requirements, and detailed component-level designs
• Provide ongoing architecture guidance and hands-on support throughout the delivery lifecycle to Change the Bank and Run the Bank teams, including investigation support and root cause analysis for major issues
• Support detailed design activities where required to ensure solutions remain aligned to approved architectures and standards
• Work closely with Project Managers and Global Technology Sourcing to advise on supplier options, cost models, and sourcing strategies
• Ensure solution integrity, technical validity, and commercial considerations are fully represented in RFI/RFP processes and Proof of Concept evaluations
• Provide advice and guidance to business stakeholders in shaping the technology portfolio to meet business outcomes
• Deliver consultancy support for Stage 0 initiatives, including early solution shaping and indicative cost estimation
• Contribute to architectural governance by participating in peer reviews and supporting the broader solutioning community within Barclaycard COO
• Maintain a detailed understanding of, promote compliance with, and contribute to the evolution of relevant statutory, regulatory, internal, and external standards and codes of practice.
  

Job Skills:

• Define technology strategy, vision, and roadmaps for the portfolio within the Merchant Services Transaction Cycle, aligned to business priorities
• Apply enterprise architecture techniques to translate strategic business and technology objectives into a prioritized set of initiatives and delivery projects over a 3–5 year horizon
• Support the Systems Planning process by identifying interdependencies and ensuring proposed plans are technically viable and coherent
• Influence business strategy to maximize value realization through effective use of technology
• Maintain expert-level knowledge of relevant technical specialists through industry research, conferences, professional bodies, and engagement with leading practitioners
• Build and sustain strong relationships with technology vendors, manufacturers, system integrators, and supply partners
• Stay current with industry trends and best practices, both within financial services and across adjacent industries, and articulate these effectively
• Act as a recognized authority in the relevant technical specialism where appropriate
• Own and clearly articulate complex business and technical challenges, leading structured evaluations of solution options
• Assess internal and external solutions to identify the most cost-effective and compliant approach aligned with architectural principles
• Drive decision-making by presenting clear, evidence-based recommendations to senior executives
• Ensure all decisions support internal policy, external regulation, architectural resilience, and non-functional requirements.
  
  

We are a Disability Confident Employer:

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and 
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you):

• You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation.  We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. 
  To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard Manage Mentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.
  
  

Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.  We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible.  It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future.  By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
Make it real | www.capgemini.com.