Retail Core Banking Solution Architect - Payments/Mortgage
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Retail Core Banking Solution Architect - Payments/Mortgage
Company: [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]
Location: Milton Keynes, UK
Job Type: Contract (Inside IR35)
Work Type: Hybrid (2-3 Days onsite per week)
Posted: 05 May 2026
Contact: Sevaga Perumal - [contact hidden]
Job Description
The Role: Retail Core Banking Solution Architect
Location: Milton Keynes, UK
Position Type: Contract Inside IR35
Remote work option Available: Hybrid (2-3 Days onsite in a week)
Required Skills: Payments, Cards, Mortgage and Lending
Essential Skills
- Solution Architecture and Design Significant experience as a Solution Architect, ideally within complex financial services environments
- Domain knowledge in Retail Banking products e.g. - Unsecured loans Personal Accounts – banking & savings and Bonds (fixed term deposits)
- Business Segmentation – Retail, business banking, private
- Onboarding processes for Personal account
- Core Banking products (customers, accounts, pricing, transactions, etc) and related services essential to the operations of a bank Domain driven design, with working knowledge of the BIAN framework, TOGAF, ArchiMate
- Proven experience in defining & documenting As-Is & Target Architecture, working with stakeholders to help define & deliver strategic objectives & roadmaps, being embedded into the functional domain, balancing business requirements with functional & technical.
Strategy Experience
- Defining and evolving RESTful APIs following best practices for scalability, versioning and documentation
- Experience with event-driven architectures
- Ability to produce clear functional architecture, design logical components and define interactions between systems, whilst delivering decommissioning and archival initiatives
- Experience balancing business outcomes with long term architecture strategies
- Experience in working with engineering teams to align technical designs with the published architecture.
- Peer review designs produced by other team members, ensuring architectural integrity and compliance with standards.
- Experience in creating practical, workable architectures that can be aligned to IT principles/standards, whilst following the bank’s architecture governance processes.
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