Managing Business Architect

Job Title: Core Banking Transformation Program Director / Delivery Lead

Location: London

About the Job you are considering:

Lead and own the end-to-end test automation strategy, governance, and delivery across the software development lifecycle. Drive automation excellence by establishing enterprise-wide frameworks, integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring high levels of quality, reliability, and deployment assurance.

Hybrid working:

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

• Own end-to-end delivery across mobilization, design, build, integration, testing, migration, cutover, operational readiness, go-live, and service transition.
• Manage scope, integrated plans, resources, dependencies, risks, quality, and benefits realization across client teams, vendors, and implementation partners.
• Lead recovery and remediation activities for challenged or at-risk transformation programs.
• Govern Core Banking platform configuration, releases, and integrations across:

• Customer & CRM
• Deposits & Savings
• Lending & Credit
• Payments
• Digital Channels
• Finance & General Ledger
• Risk & Compliance
• Financial Crime & AML
• Data & Reporting

• Oversee data migration strategy, rehearsal cycles, reconciliation activities, testing execution, cutover planning, contingency measures, and rollback procedures.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, security, resilience, audit, and operational requirements.
• Lead executive steering committees, governance forums, and stakeholder management activities.
• Manage program financials including budgets, revenue, costs, margins, forecasts, contractual obligations, and change requests.
• Support business development activities including opportunity shaping, solution definition, proposals, estimations, and delivery roadmaps.
• Coach, mentor, and lead multidisciplinary delivery teams while contributing to recruitment, workforce planning, and development of reusable transformation assets.

Your Skills

• Proven leadership and accountability for large-scale Core Banking implementation, replacement, modernization, upgrade, or migration programs.
• Hands-on delivery experience with one or more leading Core Banking platforms:

• Temenos Transact (T24)
• Mambu
• Thought Machine Vault
• Finacle
• Equivalent enterprise Core Banking solutions

• Demonstrated success delivering full lifecycle transformation programs including:

• Solution design
• Complex integrations
• Data migration
• Data reconciliation
• Cutover planning
• Go-live execution
• Hypercare and stabilization

• Strong understanding of banking architecture, products, processes, and operating models.
• Extensive experience managing multiple vendors, system integrators, and third-party suppliers.
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, governance, and commercial management capabilities.
• Experience mobilizing delivery teams and contributing to solution shaping, proposals, and transformation planning.

Desirable Experience

• Experience across multiple Core Banking platforms.
• Delivery of both traditional and cloud-native/SaaS Core Banking solutions.
• API-led architecture, event-driven platforms, and microservices ecosystems.
• Program turnaround and recovery leadership.
• Agile delivery at scale combined with formal governance frameworks.
• UK-regulated banking programs and international transformation experience.
• Development of Core Banking propositions, accelerators, and reusable assets.

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.

Please opt in during the application process.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you):

• 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 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 thinktanks 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.
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