Core banking consulting solution director

Responsibilities

• Partnering with and acting as a trusted advisor to partners in both Consulting Sales and Delivery to assist in defining and delivering high quality enterprise capable solutions
• Working closely with team members to develop practical roadmaps to move the enterprise towards the future state vision, while taking into account business, technical and delivery constraints
• Analyzing partner requirements, current state architecture, and gaps to create a future state architecture vision for one or more parts of the enterprise with a focus on reduced complexity, cost efficiencies, reuse, convergence, reduced risk and/or improved business capabilities
• Participating in defining and operating the architecture governance process to ensure change initiatives align to the vision and roadmaps
• Working closely with Domain Architects across key initiatives and projects to apply architecture principles and standards, and develop reference architectures and design patterns
• Communicating the principles, standards, vision and roadmaps to partners and proactively addressing any questions / concerns identified
• Providing thought leadership on architectural or other topics, developing a forward looking view of current and emerging technologies and their impact on the Enterprise Architecture
• Embedding Platform Thinking in everything
• Owning and enhancing workflows and processes, and delegates with clear accountabilities across the teams to meet objectives / outcomes
• Promoting an environment of learning and development. Understand and develop team members and others to achieve their professional growth

Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent Master's degree in Business or Technology is an advantage
• Formal architecture certification (TOGAF or equivalent)
• At least 15 years experience in the IT industry, preferably in large, complex enterprises
• At least 7 years experience in Enterprise Architecture in a large, complex, multi-location, multi-national environment
• Deep experience delivering critically important, enterprise scale IT solutions in a heterogeneous technology environment
• Demonstrate deep domain expertise in Application Architecture in EAI, Microservices and Cloud native technologies
• Experience in Domain driven and Event driven architecture and in technologies such as Kafka and Spark
• Experience architecting, designing and developing large scale dedication retail business banking solutions utilizusingture of Open systems and messaging and dedication DB solutions. Experience in log analysis and log based monitoring (e.g. ELK) and metrics driven monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus)
• Direct experience with highly scalable enterprise applications, designing dedication, low latency solutions with high availability and near or no data loss.
• Familiarity with:
  • standard process methodologies and tools for the entire solution lifecycle from ideation to requirements, design, development, testing, deployment and operations
  • one or more formal Architecture frameworks / methodologies (TOGAF, Zachman, BIAN, etc.)
  • architecture governance frameworks
  • heterogeneous technology platforms such as AS400, Unix/Linux, Windows
• A deep understanding of all domains of Enterprise Architecture, including the business, data, application, infrastructure and security domains
• Possess solid understanding of business strategies and able to translate them into concrete achievable action plans
• Practical experience in:
  • data modelling, object modelling, design patterns and Enterprise Architecture tool or other software modelling tools.
  • business capabilities model
• Advanced Relational Database Experience (RDBMS) in Oracle Multi-tenant database is an advantage
• Functional Expertise preferred (but not a mandatory requirement) in at least two of the below domains:
  • Branch Banking
  • CRM and e-CIF
  • Transaction Banking - Cash Management and Payments
  • Lending Origination and Servicing
  • Trade Finance & Supply Chain Finance
  • e-Channels, eco-system partnerships and API (Open Banking)
• Demonstrable experience leading teams resulting in the successful deployment of applications built on Cloud or on-prem enterprise environments for large Tier-1 Banks and Financial institutions
• Candidates having experience with migrating from legacy applications to a solution applying methodologies and Platforms that will ensure least down-time, reduced risk and excellent customer experience both the customer and end-users of those services will be preferred.
• IT Strategy consulting experience will be an added advantage
• Comfortable in working in an environment which is mix of several parties and teams from customer as well from Oracle where collaboration is key.
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills to partners at all levels
• Ability to communicate complex topics in an understandable way using a level of detail and terms appropriate to the situation
• Capability to think conceptually and identify patterns across seemingly unrelated situations
• Must be a good teammate and able to drive consensus among partners with conflicting viewpoints and objectives
• People and team management in a transversal function
• Able to collaborate and drive motivation across a diverse slate within and across teams and can deal with difficult conversations effectively

Career Level - IC5