Enterprise Architect

Description

What you'll be doing

What We Need

Corpay is looking for an Enterprise Architect ( Modernisation Programme | International Corporate Payments) to join our Architecture team based in London. UK. This is a senior, hands-on architecture role within the Modernisation programme, responsible for replacing the legacy platforms that underpin International Corporate Payments. You will define the architectural direction for your domains and see it through delivery, making decisions that influence how the business operates, scales and evolves over the long term.

Core payment platforms must remain available to customers while capabilities, data and integrations transition to a modern, scalable architecture across data centre and cloud environments. Success requires an architect who can see the enterprise as a whole, design safe and reversible transition states, and protect quality when delivery pressure increases.

Reporting to the VP of Architecture, you will be a trusted technical adviser to product, engineering and delivery leaders, as well as executive and investment forums. Your influence will extend beyond your immediate domains.

Responsibilities

• What you'll be doing
• What We Need
• Corpay is looking for an Enterprise Architect ( Modernisation Programme | International Corporate Payments) to join our Architecture team based in London. UK. This is a senior, hands-on architecture role within the Modernisation programme, responsible for replacing the legacy platforms that underpin International Corporate Payments. You will define the architectural direction for your domains and see it through delivery, making decisions that influence how the business operates, scales and evolves over the long term.
• Core payment platforms must remain available to customers while capabilities, data and integrations transition to a modern, scalable architecture across data centre and cloud environments. Success requires an architect who can see the enterprise as a whole, design safe and reversible transition states, and protect quality when delivery pressure increases.
• Reporting to the VP of Architecture, you will be a trusted technical adviser to product, engineering and delivery leaders, as well as executive and investment forums. Your influence will extend beyond your immediate domains.

Requirements

• More than 10 years of IT experience, including senior architecture roles in mid-sized or large enterprises.
• A proven track record of leading large-scale legacy modernisation, including the incremental decomposition of a monolithic core platform.
• Experience changing mission-critical, highly available transaction systems while they remain live, without disrupting service.
• Deep expertise in integration and data architecture, including APIs, event-driven patterns, data migration and master data management.
• A strong grounding in hybrid environments spanning data centre and cloud, networking, security and resilience engineering.
• Practical command of architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman or equivalent.
• Sound judgement in ambiguous situations and the credibility to influence senior stakeholders without formal authority.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline; a Master’s degree is preferred.

Conditions

As an Enterprise Architect you will be expected to work in an onsite environment reporting to our London office location.

Corpay will set you up for success by providing:

Assigned workspace at our London office location

Company-issued equipment

Formal, hands-on training

Role Responsibilities

The responsibilities of this role will include :

Setting the direction

Defining target and transition architectures for your domains, together with a roadmap sequencing legacy replacement and decommissioning against business priorities, dependencies, and risk.

Contributing to the overall Modernisation architecture, bringing an enterprise perspective connecting your domains with divisional and group strategy.

Shaping the strategic data foundation across ingestion, transformation, and serving layers, ensuring master data management spanning each layer so the business can trust and reuse its data.

Evaluating emerging technologies, cloud services, and AI-assisted engineering for strategic fit, and making clear, evidence-based recommendations.

Making change safe

Leading the decomposition of core payment platforms into clearly bounded capabilities, using patterns such as strangler fig, anti-corruption layers, and event-driven integration.

Designing coexistence and migration approaches, including data synchronisation, replication, cutover, and rollback, to keep live services stable throughout change.

Simplifying the integration landscape by removing point-to-point dependencies on legacy systems and bringing acquired businesses onto standard patterns.

Embedding security, privacy, and PCI DSS compliance in every design, with particular attention to cardholder and personal data during migration.

Designing for operability so that new services are resilient, observable, and supportable from day one.

Raising the bar

Taking designs through architecture governance and design authority with clear, well-reasoned decisions, and helping delivery teams apply standards and patterns effectively.

Developing reusable patterns that improve architecture quality across the wider organisation.

Helping define how AI-assisted engineering is adopted safely and consistently across the programme.

Mentoring solution architects, technical leads, and engineers, strengthening architecture capability across delivery teams.

Communicating complex trade-offs clearly and confidently to engineers, executives, and investment forums, tailoring documentation to each audience.

Corpay is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation practices. Compensation decisions are based on objective, job-related factors including skills, experience, qualifications, and market benchmarks. Where required by applicable law, salary or compensation ranges will be included in the job posting or provided prior to the interview process, where required by applicable law. Additional compensation elements such as bonuses, incentives, benefits, or variable pay may apply where applicable.

Benefits

• 25 days’ annual leave plus 8 bank holidays
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days of annual leave annually through the benefits enrolment window
• Pension scheme with a minimum 3% employee contribution and up to 5% employer contribution from Corpay
• Private Medical Insurance through Vitality with no excess payable by employees; Corpay covers the standard £250 excess charge
• Access to the Gratitudes benefits platform, offering flexible discounts, supermarket savings of 4–5%, and a range of exclusive employee offers
• Free access to LinkedIn Learning, with thousands of courses to support ongoing professional and personal development
• CORPAY
• LI-DR1
• About Corpay
• About Corpay
• Corpay is a global technology organization that is leading the future of commercial payments with a culture of innovation that drives us to constantly create new and better ways to pay. Our specialized payment solutions help businesses control, simplify, and secure payment for fuel, general payables, toll and lodging expenses. Millions of people in over 80 countries around the world use our solutions for their payments.
• At Corpay, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and respectful workplace where employees are valued for their diverse perspectives, experiences, and contributions. We believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion strengthen our teams, drive innovation, and support our continued success globally.
• As part of our hiring process, offers of employment may be subject to the successful completion of pre-employment screening conducted by an authorized third-party provider, in accordance with applicable laws and Corpay policies. Screening requirements may include employment references, identity verification, criminal record checks, financial or sanctions screening, and other background checks relevant to the role and permitted by local law.
• Learn more about Corpay: https://www.corpay.com
• Transparency & Compliance