Payments Solution Architect

Job Title: Solution Architect

Location: Knutsford

Type of role: Permanent (Hybrid work)

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Overview:

'We are looking for a payments Architect to design, build, and integrate secure, efficient payment systems by analysing business needs, defining technical solutions, and ensuring compliance with regulations. Key responsibilities include creating architectural blueprints, collaborating with cross-functional teams, recommending technology stacks, and ensuring solutions meet client requirements for payment processing, tokenization, and transaction authorization.

Your Role:

• Meet with stakeholders to understand business objectives and translate them into comprehensive technical designs for payment systems.
• Develop and maintain the overall architectural structure of payment systems, including data models, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Oversee the integration of payment platforms and gateways with existing client systems and third-party services.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to development teams, ensuring adherence to best practices and architectural standards.
• Ensure all payment solutions comply with industry regulations, such as PCI certification, and implement robust security measures.
• Research and recommend emerging technologies to build scalable, future-proof payment solutions.

Your Profile:

• Deep knowledge of payment transaction types, authorization, acquiring processes, card-present and card-not-present payments, and tokenization.
• Proficiency in areas like Java, Spring Boot, microservices, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), and containerization (Docker).
• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD), Unified Modelling Language (UML), and modern architectural patterns.
• Experience with logical data modelling, building common data models, and using data modelling tools.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into effective technical strategies and solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to interact with business stakeholders, technical teams, and clients.

Common Technologies & Tools:

• Cloud Platforms: AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure.
• Programming & Frameworks: Java, Spring Boot.
• Containerization: Docker.
• Modelling Tools: UML.
• Payment Technologies: APIs, Payment Gateways, POS systems.'

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 350,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market-leading capabilities in AI, cloud, and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.

Ref. code

333477-en_GB

Posted on

30 Oct 2025

Experience level

Experienced Professionals

Contract type

Permanent

Location

Manchester

Business unit

FS

Brand

Capgemini

Professional communities

Architecture