An overview of the role:

We’re looking to recruit several Banking Solution Architects to support our clients

At Capgemini Financial Services, we are passionate about bringing deep industry experience, innovative service offerings and next-generation global delivery to serve the financial services industry.

Working closely with our clients, our consulting professional's design, build and implement strategies that can help enhance business performance.

They develop specialized expertise strategic, industry, functional, technical in a diverse project environment that offers multiple opportunities for career growth.

While the specific type of consulting work they do can vary, it generally aligns with management consulting, systems integration consulting, or technology consulting.

Our Banking and Diversified Financials practice helps clients shape, define and deliver banking transformation initiatives across the entire span of the organisation (front office to back office).

This encompasses driving process improvement and process digitisation to enhance customer experience and delivery straight-through digital processing and self-service across the bank. Key areas of focus are around sales (origination) and servicing.

As a vital part of our business unit, you’ll contribute to first-class end-to-end solutions in your assignments.

You will play an active role in defining our practices, standards and ways of working and apply them to your role. Be open to working across organisation and team boundaries to ensure we bring the best to our customers_._

Why this role?

You’ll get involved in the following:

Deliver strategic business, information and technology service architecture development working as part of a multi-disciplinary team using the appropriate frameworks

To be responsible for the definition and delivery of the technical aspects of the projects, to include timely production of architectural designs and documentation

To participate in a Technical Design Authority to assess and quantify the risks associated with design decisions and communicate these to relevant parties

Support the business development activities; shape and design solution architectures for a proposal; attending client meetings with the sales team

Why you?

Your background will include:

• Good experience working within Banking, either Retail Banking, Commercial Banking, Corporate Banking or Business Banking.
• Strong background in solution architecture and/or enterprise architecture.
• Would be advantageous if you have experience with implementing core banking transformation programmes
• Any working experience with FIS, Fiserv, Temenos, Oracle or Infosys core banking solutions
• Strong consulting skills and experience – able to shape and drive consultative outcomes with clients.
• Experience in design and delivery of various Solution Architecture-led solutions in Banking (Core Banking, Payments, Mobile Banking, etc.).
• Consider yourself to be a subject matter expertise in at least one discipline for Solution Architecture.
• Rounded architecture experience including some or all aspects of programmes in terms of profession and technology (programme/project design & management, transformation, infrastructure and networking, applications, security, BI, content management, service provision, technology governance etc).
• Demonstrates and maintains broad knowledge of technology solutions, current trends and techniques and actively communicates new technology developments.
• TOGAF 9 or Open Group certification is desirable but not imperative.
• Experience in projects working with or managing offshore teams.
• Working knowledge of architecture development tools and techniques.
• Integration experience
• Ability to do end to end functional architecture for core banking transformation
• Ability to do integration architecture for core banking transformation programmes
• Ability to write patters and solution blue print, architecture vision documents

Specific Requirements

• Create a well-informed cloud strategy and manage the adaption process
• Regularly evaluate cloud applications, hardware, and software.
• Develop and organize cloud systems.
• Work closely with IT security to monitor the company's cloud privacy.
• Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.
• Offer guidance in infrastructure movement techniques including bulk application transfers into the cloud.
• Identify the top cloud architecture solutions to successfully meet the strategic needs of the company.
• Leverage on Cloud environment and service-oriented architecture principles to define and own Solution Architecture (applications and data technologies)
• Work with clients to design a full-stack solution using software that fully integrates with customer’s existing cloud infrastructure from data flow, security, DevOps, and other standpoints
• Propose suggestions and best practices to optimize customers’ cloud presence, performance, security, and cost
• Responsible for the evaluation of technical risks and map out mitigation strategies
• Develop new specs, documentation; and partake in the development of technical procedures and user support guides
• Responsible for the creation of a well-informed cloud strategy and administer the adaption process
• Evaluate cloud applications, hardware, and software at regular intervals
• Develop and organize cloud systems and work closely with IT security to monitor the company’s cloud privacy
• Provide prompt response to technical issues in a professional manner
• Direct infrastructure movement procedure, including bulk application transfers into the cloud environment
• Responsible for spotting the cloud architecture solutions to effectively meet the strategic needs of the company.