BUSINESS ARCHITECT in London

We are looking for an Architect with overarching capabilities to work with various business workstreams and senior business stakeholders within the bank. The ideal candidate will have experience in current account journeys, including lending account switching, and will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing technology solutions for complex core banking current account business problems, ensuring that systems are scalable, resilient, and secure. This role also requires alignment with overall business and IT strategies by translating business requirements into actionable technical designs and maintaining the current and target state architecture.

Working conditions: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your Role:

• Leading design and technical architecture for loans, banking accounts, current and savings along with operational platforms with focus on scalability, resiliency, security, and regulatory compliance.
• Developing solutions and designs that align with business goals and enterprise architecture strategies.
• Collaborating with project managers, product owners, and business analysts to align solutions with business requirements and risk controls for current accounts.
• Translating business requirements into comprehensive architectural designs functioning as a blueprint for successful solution implementation.
• Advising business and product teams supporting technical delivery and innovation in the banking landscape.
• Making decisions about suitable technologies for projects within the domain, often challenging vendor solutions to ensure alignment with organizational strategy.
• Driving consistent innovative solutions that meet both strategic and operational goals for current account core banking functions.
• Designing and facilitating end-to-end solutions, defining integration patterns, and ensuring processes within the domain are efficient and aligned with business needs.

Your Skills:

• Deep knowledge of core banking systems, with platforms like Temenos Transact being a plus.
• Proficiency with data technologies including real-time data streams and batch processing.
• Ability to assess and manage risks related to solution design and delivery.
• Understanding of banking cost drivers and ability to optimize solutions for cost effectiveness.
• Strong ability to communicate complex architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

We are a Disability Confident Employer. Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government's Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who declare they have a disability and meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Make It Real: You'd be joining an accredited Great Place to Work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce as a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing, we have trained 'Mental Health Champions' across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini's 'learning for life' mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from think tanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications, and much more.

You will be joining one of the World's Most Ethical Companies, as recognised by Ethisphere for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Why you should consider Capgemini: Growing clients' businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you'll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs, and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what's possible. It's why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world's leading businesses, and it's how you'll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you'll build the skills you want. You'll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini: Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology, and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering, and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.