Solution Architect Digital Client Self Service Enterprise API Journeys

Job Title: Solution Architect Digital Client Self Service Enterprise API Journeys

Location: Northampton

About the Job you are considering:

The Capgemini Financial Services Open Banking Centre of Excellence COE partners with leading banks to transform their Digital Client Self Service capabilities through API first cloud native solutions
As a Solution Architect you will drive the design and delivery of end to end digital journeys many of which require extensive collaboration across groups and functions beyond Corporate Banking You will play a central role in architecting self service capabilities such as CONA Sanctions and Mandates journeys ensuring they are secure scalable compliant and optimised for a seamless customer experience

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:

• Digital Client Self Service Architecture
• Lead solution architecture for digital client self service capabilities enabling client’s enterprise-weirding permissions mandates sanctions checks and account services through intuitive digital channels
• Define target state digital journeys and API driven architectures that support straight through real time and self-service execution for corporate client
• End to End Journey Design Cross Group Collaboration
• Own architecture for complex E2E journeys requiring collaboration across the wider Group including
• Retail Wealth Payments Compliance Operations and Legal
• Ensure all upstream and downstream dependencies are captured orchestrated and aligned with regulatory operational and customer experience expectations
• Specialist Journey Ownership
• CONA Customer Onboarding Amendments
• Architect the API workflow and data models enabling seamless client onboarding and profile amendments across multiple business lines
• Sanctions Journeys
• Design secure and compliant integrations with sanctions screening platforms ensuring adherence to regulatory obligations rapid decisioning and traceability
• Mandates Authorisations
  Define solutions for digital mandate management including entitlement rules signing authorities approval workflows and auditability
• Solution Delivery Governance
• Produce high quality solution architecture artefacts API specifications integration maps security patterns sequence diagrams and logical physical designs
• Engage stakeholders through workshops and design forums to align on solution direction and validate business and operational requirements
• Present solutions to Architecture Review Boards and guide them through governance processes
• Translate high level journeys into iterative sprint ready components in partnership with delivery leads
• Review designs and code from engineering teams to ensure alignment with architecture principles and end to end journey intent
• Ensure change requests remain aligned with solution integrity and strategic architecture
  API Cloud Architecture Responsibilities
• Apply best practices in REST API design authentication and authorization security patterns and microservices architecture
• Promote enterprise-wide standards around API modelling documentation versioning and governance
• Drive adoption of cloud native approaches ensuring solutions leverage appropriate cloud services resilience patterns and observability frameworks

Your Skills:

• Strong experience designing digital client self-service platforms preferably in financial services or corporate banking
• Proven delivery of E2E cross functional journeys engaging multiple business units such as Operations
• Compliance Legal and Customer Servicing
• Experience architecting journeys related to onboarding sanctions screening mandates authorisations or similar regulated workflows
• Deep knowledge of API architecture REST design principles Swagger Open APIRAML and API security standards
• Familiarity with API management platforms MuleSoft Apigee Kong AWS API Gateway
• Hands on experience with microservices Java Spring Boot and cloud native deployment patterns
• Strong understanding of OAuth2 OIDC FAPI and enterprise security controls
• Knowledge of observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk or ELK
• Experience with public cloud platforms ideally AWS
• Understanding of integration and event driven patterns e.g. Kafka

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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