Associate Lead Consultant
ABOUT TEMENOS
Temenos powers a world of banking that creates opportunities for billions of people and businesses everywhere. We do this through the pioneering spirit of 7500+ Temenosians who are passionate about making banking better, together.
We serve 3000 banks from the largest to challengers and community banks in 150+ countries. We collaborate with clients to build new banking services and state-of-the-art customer experiences on our open banking platform, helping them operate more sustainably.
At Temenos, we have an open-minded and inclusive culture, where everyone has the power to create their own destiny and make a positive contribution to the world of banking and society.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
You will be in charge of installing, configuring, and upgrading the Datalake, Analytics & FRM applications at client site
You will provide advice for choices and implementation of interfaces / surrounding system, including advice and support on how to develop client reporting
You will provide training, guidance and support to client technical teams
You will propose and imagine solutions to address client challenges
You will handle and follow up specific technical issues (wide diversity and complexity), and perform corrective actions
You will interact with Datalake, Analytics, FRM development, architecture, product and support teams
RESPONSIBILITIES IN DETAIL:
Acting as an TDH architectural leader and trusted advisor to Clients
Engage at a detailed level in Install / Design / Build / Test / Deliver of both TDH as well as related developments in Semantic query layer & Analytics.
To be commercially astute when engaging and advising a Client
To act as an ambassador for Temenos product solutions throughout a customer engagement
To identify, evaluate and offer mitigation strategies for technical risks
Providing expert advice and guidance to Clients on the optimal implementation of TDH products within the Client’s infrastructure, thus achieving the desired non-functional characteristics such as Datalake, Analytics performance, high availability, disaster recovery and associated testing strategy
Providing an effective link between the project team and Development Teams and the Technology Product Group in respect of TDH Reference Architecture and Sizing information
Helping the Project Manager to prevent scope creep, eliminating the design and delivery of inconsistent solutions, and providing transparency on the entire solution design process
Helping to ensure that the Technical Consulting and architectural elements of Temenos Implementation Methodology (TIM) are understood by the Client and adhered to by project team members. Helping the Project Manager to negotiate and agree any specific technical or architectural divergences from TIM with the Client (for example, to incorporate Client-specific methodology and naming standards) and communicate them to project team members.
Review and supervision of technical System Amendment Requests (SARs), and process changes.(L1 Developments)
Working closely with Client, project team members and Regional and Local development teams (L2 & L3) to develop a robust and viable architecture related to customer value and business benefit
Taking ownership for applying leading practice in terms of methodology and component re-use, covering the whole Temenos footprint
Coaching of Technical Consultants
Providing advice and guidance to the Client on environment management and release control between various pre-live environments
Obtaining Client agreement on proposed technical solutions including end to end process overviews
Completing Solution Design Document for technical areas as defined in work package
Defining technical solution for customization and configuration needs for TEMENOS products as per agreed technical definitions.
Ensuring completion of TAABS data collection through the Technical Process Analysis phase of the project
Supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) where required from a continuity perspective on projects
Liaising with the TEMENOS maintenance groups to ensure that the product problems identified are understood and resolved.
The Solution Architect should be seen by Clients and colleagues as a thought leader within the project team and by his/her peers within Temenos.
The Lead Technical Architect is expected to specialize in at least two of the following technical areas:
Technical architecture and best use of TEMENOS Client services tools.
Configuration of TEMENOS products or interfaces with the products, according to the definitions supplied,
Data migration and related activities.
Master tasks and technical problems on a wide range of complex issues and prove general proficiency in the tools, systems, procedures required to accomplish the job.
Lead the installation of custom enhancements and give final validation on technical set-up and conduct necessary testing to ensure user acceptance and global quality of the solution delivered
Supervise, if and when needed, over specific technical parts of the implementation plan
Perform such other duties, functions and services, consistent with status or vocational ability, as may from time to time be required
The role would normally mean being on client site Monday to Friday and back at weekends, however there may be periods where they will be expected to extend the periods away from home.
REQUIREMENTS
Educational & Proficiency level: Professional with a minimum of seven years of experience in software technical consultancy including T24 implementation experience in a banking environment
Technical knowledge: Programming in Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, Azure Event Hub, Redhat AMQ streams, AVRO, Parquet, Javascript. Application Servers (Apache Tomcat) OS (Windows, RedHat Linux, Redhat OCI Linux), Understanding of RDBMS, experience in (PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Azure SQL, Oracle), Deployment (On-Prem, Azure Cloud, AWS, Redhat Openshift).
SKILLS
Care about transforming the Banking landscape
Commit to being part of an exciting culture and product evolving within the financial industry
Collaborate effectively and proactively with teams within or outside Temenos
Challenge yourself to be ambitious and achieve your individual as well as the company targets