Solution/Digital Architect, Senior Manager

The banking industry has been revolutionised by digital challenger banks and a vast FinTech landscape. Digital Banking Solutions is a Deloitte Technology & Transformation team who adopts a technology focused approach in delivering business benefit to our clients. Our banking clients engage us to solve their most complex problems, help shape technology strategies and most importantly, to deliver those strategies through modern technology solutions.

As part of this team, you’ll work alongside a team of Banking specialists from across retail & commercial banking, where you will take an active role in shaping and architecting transformational solutions for our clients. You’ll be working with likeminded Subject-Matter Experts and be a pivotal part of our growing solution architecture capability.

Our clients range from the largest, most important Banks and Financial Institutions from across the UK, Europe, and the Middle East, to the modern digital challenger banks and the FinTech companies that help them grow.

With our global alliances with key technology partners, you will help us strive to deliver modern, innovation and cutting-edge technology to our clients.

Limited Financial Services experience? Solution Architecture in modern digital technologies is our primary and most desired skillset. Financial Services industry knowledge is desired but not mandatory. However please note that this role will be within banking and you will learn the required industry knowledge and be working on banking clients.

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As a Manager, your subject matter and expected outputs can vary significantly from client to client. Each client role you take will be different and be at different stages of the delivery lifecycle. This diversity of role provides new and interesting opportunities, but also requires you to have the latitude to adapt. Depending on the client role, you will be expected to:

Support clients in creating and assessing their technology strategies and roadmaps, ensuring they are investing in the right technology and delivering in the right order.
Support delivery programmes by creating modern and cutting-edge Solution Architectures and Technical Designs for the scope of work, working with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Development teams and Programme Managers.
You will continuously learn, improve, and adapt to the nature of the client and programme. Expanding into new subject matters where required (e.g. Retail Banking, Payments, Commercial Banking, etc.).
Perform a tech lead role, supporting the client throughout the project/programme lifecycle across discovery, requirements gathering, solution design and build, end-to-end testing, process definition and change and go-live.
Providing technical design governance, solution quality assurance and design reviews to keep complex technology programmes on track against industry good practice and standards.
Outside of client engagements you will be an important member of a growing Solution Architecture practice within Digital Banking. You will also be involved in:

Providing thought leadership and continuous capability development to the firm, ensuring we are setting the standard for our clients to follow and we are at the cutting edge of the latest technology developments that apply to the Banking industry.
Strengthening our architecture capability through coaching and mentoring junior team members to help them grow to their full potential and become the architects of the future.
Building effective client relationships with peer-level stakeholders across all business and technical domains including IT, Operations and Risk.
Building and maintaining the business relationships with our technology partners (e.g. AWS, GCP, etc.), ensuring we remain up to date with all their latest innovations.
Contribute to business development work, bringing entrepreneurial mindset, leading the development of our key propositions to market through pre-sales, bid preparation and client presentations.
Lead the definition and implementation of Deloitte accelerators and standards and promoting adherence to these standards within internal and external programmes and projects.
Participate fully within Deloitte to assist the growth of the digital banking practice and the Industry Solutions division including supporting the firm’s commitment to creating a more diverse and inclusive culture.
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These attributes will help you work with your teams to drive change and real impact in the banking industry, demonstrating your excellent communication and presentation skills:

You enjoy challenging yourself with new problems and bring a technical mindset and skillset to reaching into the detail of complex problems to identify and deliver technical solutions.
We will consider applicants with non-banking backgrounds if their profile in Solution Architecture and related technology matches this job specification and they have a strong desire to work in the Banking industry.
We are recruiting candidates with the following experience:

Proven Digital and Solution Architecture experience working with modern digital solutions, cloud platforms, modern integration (e.g. latest API practices) and architecture patterns including MicroServices.
A working knowledge of platform, infrastructure, and data architecture (including cyber security and networking patterns).
Demonstrated technology delivery experienced including a thorough understanding of all stages of the delivery lifecycle (discovery, design, delivery, transition), gained through a leading bank, consulting firm, fintech or leading firm outside of Financial Services.
Demonstrated experience in defining architecture principles and solution designs that adhere to these principles, common architecture patterns and practices.
Appreciation of emerging technology and trends in banking.
Exceptional communication and client management skills.
Been part of digital transformation project lifecycles in defining end to end solution designs and delivering innovative solutions, including integration of emerging technology solutions.
Deep Experience in leading teams of architects and / or technologists, and initiatives within a wider complex digital transformation programme.
You will have experience in delivering through various ways of working, including waterfall and various agile methodologies.
Analysing and defining solution options and brokering buy-in, consensus and decision making from technical and business stakeholders.
Experience as a technology lead who can work closely with developers, testers and other agile roles to help shape delivery.
The Desirables:

Certification or demonstrated knowledge of one of the major Cloud Service Providers – Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure Platform.
Proven adaptability and ability to shift focus and work with varied subject matters and work across different projects and project types.
Experience of banking products, processes, and technology, in at least one (preferably multiple) of:
Corporate and Transactional banking
Retail banking
Credit Cards
Payments
Digital (e.g. online banking, mobile app) and Non-Digital (e.g. contact centre) Banking Channels
Banking Regulation (e.g. PSRs, PSD2, Open Banking, MiFIR/MiFID, GDPR, Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act).