Paysafe
Director, Consumer Architecture
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Director, Consumer Architecture
Paysafe is a global payments platform powering the experience economy, with a strong focus on the iGaming, video gaming, e-commerce, retail, travel, and hospitality sectors. With 30 years of expertise in payment technology, Paysafe helps businesses and consumers lift every experience through seamless, secure payment solutions, including card payments, digital wallets such as Skrill, eCash solutions like PaysafeCard, and a suite of local payment methods. With approximately 2,900 employees across 12 countries and annualized transactional volume of $167 billion in 2025, Paysafe connects people and businesses worldwide through innovative digital payment experiences. Further information is available at www.paysafe.com.
It starts here. Have a global impact on the world of payments.
As Director, Consumer Architecture, you'll lead the architecture for Skrill, NETELLER, paysafecard, and the platforms serving 10 million customers, while building and inspiring a talented architecture team. You'll translate complex technology decisions into meaningful customer and business outcomes and help create the scalable, resilient platforms that power Paysafe's future.
What Paysafe stands for:
- Being open and honest.
- Keeping focused.
- Operating with Courage.
- Pioneering the future.
Our values and culture are driven by Equality, Development, Social Responsibility, and Wellbeing.
How we work: We follow a hybrid working model, spending an average of three days per week at our office location. The office is located in Gresham Street next to St Paul’s cathedral with easy access and transport links via St Paul’s, Bank, Cannon Street, City Thameslink, Liverpool Street, Farringdon, Mansion House.
What you will own:
- Set the architectural vision and technology direction across Paysafe's Consumer portfolio.
- Lead, mentor, and champion a team of architects, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and accountability.
- Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to turn business priorities into practical technology strategies.
- Influence key technology investments, roadmaps, and architectural decisions across multiple products.
- Drive platform modernization, balancing innovation, speed of delivery, scalability, and resilience.
- Review complex designs and provide technical guidance on high-impact initiatives and challenges.
- Foster collaboration across Product, Engineering, Data, Risk, and Compliance teams to deliver seamless customer experiences.
- Keep a close eye on emerging technologies and industry trends, ensuring our architecture evolves with the needs of the business and our customers.
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Experience and expertise:
- Significant experience leading architecture, engineering, or technology teams in fintech, payments, digital platforms, or similarly complex environments.
- A proven people leader with a passion for coaching, developing talent, and building inclusive, high-performing teams.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trust and influence decisions across technical and non-technical audiences.
- The ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes and make thoughtful decisions that balance customer needs, risk, scalability, and commercial value.
- Experience defining technology strategy and architecture across multiple products, platforms, or business domains.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, APIs, and event-driven design.
- Strong technical credibility, with the ability to review code, challenge designs, and guide engineering teams without being hands-on day-to-day.
- Experience delivering large-scale modernization, transformation, or platform evolution initiatives.
A snippet of what you’ll get in return:
- Make your day work for you with our flexible working hours.
- You decide what your holiday looks like with the option to buy or sell your holiday and carry over up to 5 days into the next year.
- Enjoy social events on our rooftop terrace with views onto St Pauls Cathedral.
- Our fully equipped facilities include showers, hairdryers and straighteners and fresh towels.
- Start your day with a free breakfast, fresh fruit and snacks.
- Take a breather in our dedicated wellbeing room.
- Spend time with those important to you with our enhanced paid family policies.
- Test our products Skrill and Neteller. Upon joining we will award you £50 into each wallet.
- Enjoy our discounts on memberships via vitality including, gyms, leisure centres, yoga/Pilates across the country.
- Need a new Laptop or TV? We offer support purchasing Apple and LG products via Stormfront technology.
- Join our six employee-led equality communities and help foster a workplace that celebrates diversity and create opportunities to collaborate and learn.
- Give back to the community with four paid charity days.
- Kickstart your weekend early with our summer hours during the months of June, July and August with a 3pm finish every Friday.
- Let’s not forget, we also offer: Private health insurance (pre-existing conditions are included) & dental insurance, income protection, life assurance and more.
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If you’re successful joining the team, you’ll be meeting our CEO in person during our new joiners breakfast in London – a great opportunity to network with your peers.
Equal Employment Opportunity Paysafe is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to providing a work environment of mutual respect to everyone without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.
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