Solution Architect | Payments

Job description
• Role: Solution Architect - Payments Value Stream

Function: CIO

Salary: Competitive salary plus generous benefits package

Location: Edinburgh, Bristol, London or Gloucester - hybrid working

Closing Date: 24 September 2026

At TSB, we’re transforming the service we provide our customers, and technology will be at the forefront of that change. It’s an exciting transformation to an agile environment and we’re investing in a new in-house engineering capability to deliver it – so, if you’re a forward-looking and innovative IT professional, this is your opportunity to be in on the ground floor and help us build the future of banking.

How You’ll Make a Difference

This role will be responsible for designing and implementing payments technology solutions. Working closely with stakeholders, including business leaders, project managers, and other architects, to ensure that technology solutions are aligned with the overall enterprise architecture. You’ll evaluate new technologies and make recommendations on which ones to adopt and how to integrate them into existing systems. Additionally, you’ll ensure that systems are secure, reliable, and scalable. You will have responsibility for ART/Feature Teams and Ideally have worked in a Scaled Agile context.

What you’ll bring
• Operating at Senior Solution Architecture level, specifically within UK low value domestic Payments scheme implementation (Faster Payments, NPA, BACS)
• Ideally SEPA and SEPA instant payments experience too
• ISO-20022 data modelling
• Experience designing Payments solutions covering - fraud, sanctions screening, case management, Treasury, Reconciliation, API gateway design
• Familiar with UK Payments vendor community, have connections and worked with pay.uk and UK Finance entities
• Experience of Cloud Architecture, ideally certified in AWS to Solution Architect level
• Experience of designing event driven microservices architecture
• Strong communication and presentation skills with stakeholders and demonstrable decision making

What We Offer In Return
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements to support a healthy work/life balance
• An attractive reward and benefits package through myTSB, giving you more of what matters to you
• A diverse, energising, and collaborative working environment
• A career that’s enriching and full of opportunities

So if this sounds up your street, come join our team, we make things happen!

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