Manager - Solution Architect - Payments , Tech Consulting FS

London, England, United Kingdom

12/20/2024

Solution Architect – Financial Services – Manager – Payments – London, Edinburgh

EY is the only major professional services firm with an integrated financial services practice across Europe, the Middle East, India, and Africa (EMEIA). We connect our asset management, banking and capital markets, and insurance clients to 6,500 talented people from 12 countries and 35,000 financial services colleagues around the world.

In EY FS UK, we are expanding our Consulting practice and building our Technology Consulting team as a key component of our All In Strategy. All In is EY’s global strategy and ambition to deliver long-term value to clients, people and society. It is inspired by the way innovations spread through society. We are actively recruiting high achieving individuals with systems analyst expertise on technology-enabled transformation projects/programmes within payments for Financial Services.

The opportunity

The EY Financial Services Payments team is continuing to grow and develop unique advisory propositions aligned to market needs and demand. We are currently looking for an exceptional Manager to deliver on our Payments offering for the financial services sectors. This role requires an individual who understands the payments domain and can deliver on the most innovative and challenging engagements, with strong system analytical skills.

By joining the Payments Team, you will work in high-performing teams and collaboratively with our clients to enhance their ability to solve complex business problems by exploiting strategies and solutions unique to the payments domain. You will provide expertise and delivery in the following focus areas, playing your part to shape the future with confidence:

• New Payments Platforms and Market Infrastructure Transformation – Working with our clients to design, build, and integrate key capabilities to enable large scale changes for payment infrastructures
• Payments Modernization and Tech & Ops Transformation – Helping our client with Front-to-back digitization of payments processes and journeys and E2E transformation delivery from strategy to implementation
• Payments Innovation and New Payment Methods Transformation – Supporting our clients on the development of innovative services and propositions to drive new revenue growth lines
• Emerging Payments – Helping our clients with the adoption of digital currencies, and digital assets
  
  

Your Key Responsibilities

• As a Solution Architect, you will work closely with other solution architects, developers, and associates to lead, design, and develop technical solutions for banking clients. You will ensure alignment with target architectures, principles, patterns, and standards
• Conduct thorough systems analysis in the current state of client systems, identifying fundamental challenges in payments, and providing solution and services that align with the client’s business objectives and technical requirements.
• Lead engagements with organisations to harness technology and innovation, shaping their technology visions and payment strategy, executing the digital transformation journey and reinventing businesses to create sustainable value
• Lead on innovative proposals to clients focused on solving the right business problems with our broad consulting capabilities
• Drive our Payments offering across the financial services industry, working in collaboration with our competencies and Account teams to bring innovative thought leadership and solutions to our clients
  
  

People Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for your own self-development and maintain an educational programme to continually develop personal skills
• Support the development of our people and broader payments capability with a strong focus on diversity and inclusiveness, encouraging open communication and knowledge sharing
• Build and support high performing teams, coaching, mentoring and serving as a role model for our people
• Collaborate with internal and external team members to unlock the full power of EY
  
  

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Strong experience in payment areas, having worked with consulting, PSPs/FinTechs, market infrastructures, and/or challenger banks, and can bring new perspectives to our team
• Experience delivering across multiple methodologies, including agile, scaled agile, DevOps, etc
• Experience working on large technology implementations from a technical perspective within the payment domain
• Relevant knowledge and experience in retail/commercial and wholesale payments
• Advanced system analytics skills to analyse and interpret complex data, identify trends, and provide actionable insights
• Proven track record of successful delivery working in large regulatory driven & strategic change
• A deep understanding of working with financial services clients to develop and deliver innovative payment solutions
• Experience of building high performing teams and exceptional leadership and interpersonal skills
• Ability to successfully deliver multiple engagements, exceed client expectations, manage commercial aspects (e.g. contracts, billing and budgets), and manage quality and risk
• Ability to engage with senior stakeholders and manage large cross functional projects
• Intellectual strength / flexibility to rapidly understand complex problems and rationalize these into workable solutions which can then be delivered
• Exceptional storytelling, communication, presentation, business writing and professional skills, including being able to liaise with both technical and business contacts at our clients
  
  

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Demonstrable experience of complex payment programme delivery including an expert level knowledge of the payment requirements and design issues associated with the delivery of payment projects
• A track record in building market presence, selling, and delivering large scale end-to-end payment transformations across the payments industry
• Deep understanding of the emerging technology trends including adoption of cloud-based and advanced payment solutions with a clear perspective and vision to lead the market
• Experience on working on the most innovative payment projects using cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), cloud-native architectures, microservices, and implementing security measures to ensure compliance with industry standards
  
  

What We Look For

If you have a keen interest in technology consulting, are a team player with excellent communication and presentation skills, possess an analytical mind with problem-solving skills, and have experience with various systems and solutions, then the EY UK Technology Consulting team could be exactly the right place for you.

What Working At EY Offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development. With FlexEY, you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings, and a wide range of discounts, offers, and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching, and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you
  
  

Additionally, EY is now one of the first global companies to offer our employees access to an externally accredited Technology MBA – a truly unique opportunity to develop yourself and others.

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, strategy & transactions, and consulting services, we are using the finance products, expertise, and systems we’ve developed to shape the future with confidence. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities, and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we’ll make our ambition to be the best employer a reality.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Join us and shape the future with confidence.

Apply now.