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Head of Solution Architecture - Digital Payments | Virginia

Lead the future of digital payment solutions.

We're partnering with a global technology leader that is transforming the payments industry through innovative digital payment platforms used by some of the world's largest financial institutions.

This is a rare opportunity for an experienced Head of Solution Architecture to build and lead a high-performing team responsible for shaping customer solutions, influencing product strategy, and acting as the technical bridge between customers, Product Management and Engineering.

The Opportunity

As Head of Solution Architecture, you'll own the technical customer engagement model across the entire solution lifecycle—from solution design and implementation through to production support and continuous product improvement.

You'll lead a team of Solution Architects, ensuring customers receive exceptional technical guidance while driving architectural consistency, operational excellence and product innovation.

This is a highly visible leadership role where you'll work closely with executive stakeholders, customers and engineering leadership to deliver world-class digital payment solutions.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead, mentor and develop a team of Solution Architects supporting an enterprise digital payments portfolio.
• Own the technical customer engagement model across pre-sales, implementation and post-production support.
• Act as the key technical interface between customers, Product Management and Engineering.
• Drive solution quality, architectural governance and best practice across multiple customer programmes.
• Translate customer requirements, operational challenges and enhancement requests into actionable product improvements.
• Lead technical discussions during major customer escalations and critical incidents.
• Champion standardisation, solution reuse and continuous improvement across the product portfolio.
• Define and monitor KPIs relating to solution quality, customer satisfaction and implementation success.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience leading Solution Architecture or Technical Consulting teams.
• Strong background delivering complex enterprise software or SaaS solutions.
• Experience working closely with Product Management and Engineering organisations.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage both executive customers and technical teams.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, solution design and software delivery lifecycles.
• A collaborative leader who enjoys developing people and building high-performing technical teams.
• Experience within payments, financial services, fintech or another highly regulated technology environment would be highly advantageous.

Why Join?

• Executive-level leadership opportunity with significant strategic influence.
• Work on market-leading digital payment technologies used globally.
• Lead a talented technical organisation with real ownership and autonomy.
• Collaborate with senior executives, major enterprise customers and product leaders.
• Competitive compensation package including bonus and comprehensive benefits.

If you're passionate about leading technical teams, shaping product direction and delivering exceptional customer outcomes, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today or contact us for a confidential conversation.

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Senior Solution Architect - Authentication & Digital Identity

Location: Paris, France (Hybrid)

Salary: Up to €90,000 + Benefits

 

We're supporting an international organisation as they continue to invest in their architecture capability. Operating across large-scale enterprise and digital transformation programmes, they deliver secure technology solutions for customers across a range of regulated industries.

 

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Solution Architect who enjoys combining customer engagement with technical leadership. You'll work closely with customers and internal stakeholders to understand business challenges, shape solution designs and provide architectural guidance throughout the delivery lifecycle.

 

The Role

Working as part of a collaborative architecture team, you'll lead discovery workshops, capture technical and business requirements, and design secure, scalable solutions that align with both customer objectives and industry best practice.

 

You'll act as a trusted technical advisor, working across engineering, product and delivery teams to ensure successful implementation while supporting technical proposals and customer engagements where required.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead customer workshops and technical discovery sessions.
• Design end-to-end enterprise solutions for complex digital environments.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical architectures.
• Produce high-level solution designs and technical documentation.
• Work closely with engineering and delivery teams throughout project implementation.
• Support customer presentations, solution definition and bid activities.

 

Skills & Experience

We're keen to speak with Solution Architects who have experience in several of the following areas:

• Enterprise Solution Architecture.
• Identity & Access Management (IAM) or enterprise security solutions.
• Secure digital platforms, cloud technologies and API-based architectures.
• Modern authentication and access management concepts.
• Enterprise integration and systems architecture.
• Customer-facing consultancy or technical leadership.
• Producing architecture documentation and solution designs.
• Experience with leading identity or access management platforms (such as Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, ForgeRock, Ping Identity or similar) would be advantageous.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

 

What's on Offer

• €85,000-€90,000 basic salary plus benefits.
• Hybrid working based in Paris.
• Exposure to enterprise-scale transformation programmes.
• Collaborative and supportive technical environment.
• Excellent opportunities for career progression and professional development.

 

If you're an experienced Solution Architect looking for your next challenge, we'd be delighted to discuss the opportunity in confidence.

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Salesforce Data Architect
London based role (on site initially), 6 month contract initially (outside IR35)

We are looking for an experienced Salesforce Data Architect to help shape the next phase of a large-scale Salesforce transformation. Following the successful delivery of several major platform initiatives, the focus is now on optimising the existing Salesforce environment by improving data quality, refining integrations and establishing a scalable architecture that supports future growth and AI capabilities.

The successful candidate will work closely with technical and business stakeholders to assess the current platform, identify architectural improvements and implement best practices across data, integrations, security and platform operations.

Required Skills & Experience

•Proven experience as a Salesforce Solution Architect, Salesforce Technical Architect or similar senior Salesforce architecture role.

•Strong expertise in Salesforce Data Architecture, including designing scalable data models, improving data quality and implementing robust deduplication strategies.

•Experience reviewing existing Salesforce environments, identifying architectural issues and delivering pragmatic, scalable improvements.

•Strong understanding of Salesforce Integration Architecture, including analysing existing integration patterns, troubleshooting data flows and recommending more efficient approaches for integrating internal and external systems.

•Experience working with complex customer data, ensuring accurate, governed and reliable information across the Salesforce platform.

•Knowledge of preparing Salesforce data and metadata to maximise AI capabilities, including experience with Salesforce AI technologies such as Agentforce or Einstein AI (or similar AI enablement initiatives).

•Experience implementing platform best practices around scalability, monitoring, observability and operational resilience.

•Strong understanding of Salesforce security architecture, including permissions, access controls and platform governance.

•Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage technical teams and business users to capture requirements and translate them into architectural solutions.

•Experience working within enterprise Salesforce environments supporting multiple business functions and integrations.

Desirable Skills & Experience

•Salesforce certifications such as Application Architect, System Architect or Certified Technical Architect (CTA).

•Experience supporting large-scale Salesforce transformation or CRM modernisation programmes.

•Knowledge of enterprise data governance and master data management principles.

•Experience working with API-led integration architectures and middleware platforms.

•Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD and Salesforce deployment best practices.

•Experience operating within fast-paced, agile product or technology environments.

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