For mission-critical payment workloads, regulatory deadlines, and strategic delivery. Everything in Sync, plus a senior architect who owns the technical roadmap alongside you.
Everything in Sync, plus your architect
Teams that need a senior architect, not just tooling.
You're accountable for payment infrastructure at a scale-up or mid-market firm. You need a trusted architect who knows payments, not just cloud — and who can translate technical risk into business language.
You're modernising a payment stack that was built over a decade. You need architectural direction, not just tooling — someone who can work with your team and hold the design.
You have a DORA deadline, an FCA application, or a Visa/Mastercard certification in flight. You need an architect who has been through this before and can accelerate your delivery.
You've grown faster than your architecture. Payment flows that worked at £1M volume are straining at £100M. You need an architect embedded in your team before you hit the next wall.
PCI-DSS QSA audit, FCA visit, or scheme certification. You need an architect who can own the technical evidence and respond to questions — not a junior consultant reading from a checklist.
Not a generalist cloud consultant. Your architect is a certified AWS Solutions Architect specialising in payment infrastructure — PCI-DSS, scheme certification, agentic payment flows, AWS payment rails, and FCA-regulated environments. They work alongside your team on a retainer, know your stack, and are available directly over Slack or Teams.
DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) became applicable to EU financial entities and their ICT third-party service providers in January 2025, requiring firms to maintain ICT risk management frameworks, conduct threat-led penetration testing, and document third-party dependency mapping — with direct board accountability. The FCA's own CP23/30 consultation on operational resilience sets impact tolerances that require architectural evidence, not just policy statements. Simultaneously, high engineering turnover in fintech is well documented — meaning most payment engineering teams will face a senior technical vacancy during a critical compliance window. An embedded architect bridges that gap without the 3–6 month cost and delay of a permanent hire.
3-month minimum commitment. Cancel with 30 days written notice after that. Includes everything in Sync plus your dedicated architect.