Solution Architect (Global Payroll & EU Pay Transparency)- 6 months | Reading/Dublin, UK (Hybrid - 3

Project overview

Solution Architect (Global Payroll & EU Pay Transparency)- 6 months | Reading/Dublin, UK (Hybrid - 3 days/week in office)

We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect to join a leading international fashion retailer on a 6-month hybrid contract. You will design and govern end-to-end solutions for a global payroll transformation and EU Pay Transparency reporting, acting as the bridge between business needs and technical execution. You will lead design decisions, partner with the product owner and project manager, and guide up to five contract or supplier architects and senior engineers. The role is hybrid in Reading or Dublin, with 3 days per week on-site.

Responsibilities

What You Will Ideally Bring:

• Lead the end-to-end design of global payroll and reward solutions that meet business and non-functional requirements
• Lead architectural governance: guardrails, standards and design forums
• Define global payroll templates and operating models, managing country-specific variations
• Design payroll integrations and finance flows: journals, costing, accruals, reconciliation and GL posting
• Architect solutions for EU Pay Transparency Directive reporting, pay equity analysis and compensation reporting
• Define canonical payroll and compensation data models, ETL pipelines and a single source of truth
• Design secure integration across SFTP, managed file transfer and Azure services
• Document blueprints and design decisions, and guide supplier architects and engineers
• 8+ years in technology, including 5+ years designing enterprise-scale solutions, with TOGAF
• Global payroll solution design across multiple countries, providers and legislative jurisdictions
• Payroll expertise: gross-to-net, tax, statutory deductions, pensions, benefits, controls and reconciliation
• Payroll transformation: vendor consolidation, platform replacement and country migrations
• EU Pay Transparency Directive, pay equity and compensation reporting across European markets
• Workday HCM, Compensation and Prism, and integrating Workday with external payroll providers
• ETL, data enrichment and payroll file ingestion and harmonisation
• GDPR, payroll data security, audit and segregation of duties

Project details

• Duration: 6 months
• Rate: £600 per day
• Inside IR35
• Location: Reading/Dublin (Hybrid)
• Start Date: ASAP
• Start: ASAP
• Location: Reading/Dublin, UK, GB
• Rate: 75-75 EUR/h