Solution Architect - London, UK - Fulltime - Hybrid

Job Role: Solution Architect

Location: London, UK

About the Job you are considering:

We are seeking experienced Solution Architect with strong expertise in Banking domain who will overseeing the planning, execution, and successful delivery of projects

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:

Capgemini is seeking a seasoned Solutions Architect with deep expertise in Current Accounts specifically Packaged Paid for Accounts combined with strong experience delivering digital first customer journeys across large scale UK retail banking platforms. The ideal candidate will bring end to end channel architecture experience spanning onboarding eligibility benefit fulfilment charging servicing and account life cycle across both traditional core banking and modern digital ecosystems The role demands strong domain knowledge modern solution design capabilities and hands on collaboration with engineering digital product and platform teams in a multi-platform API driven environment

• Lead architecture and solution design for Current Account and Packaged Account journeys across mobile online banking assisted channels and core platforms
• Shape digital experience flows ensuring consistent seamless journeys across web mobile branch telephony and third-party integrations
• Architecture Design Standards
• Develop high level and low-level architecture artefacts aligned with Barclays enterprise digital security and cloud standards
• Drive adoption of API first event driven microservices based patterns across Packaged Account journeys.
• Platform Modernisation Transformation.
• Drive the modernisation of legacy account platforms into strategic cloud ready systems reusable APIs and real time event streams
• Lead decomposition of monolithic journeys into domain aligned microservices reusable digital capabilities and platform agnostic components
• Digital Product Engineering Collaboration
• Work closely with Digital Product Owners UX teams Business Analysts Engineering Leads and Platform SMEs to define functional and nonfunctional requirements for digital channels
• Provide architectural guidance during design and build phases ensuring strong alignment to digital target state architecture
• Integration Across the Ecosystem
• Partner with upstream and downstream systems including Payments Digital Channels Statements Fraud Risk Customer Communications Benefits Providers and API gateways
• Ensure digital journeys fully leverage strategic platforms like identity services orchestration layers customer data platforms and event hubs

Your Skills:

• Banking Domain Expertise
• 10 years of overall banking technology experience with 6 years in architecture roles

Strong expertise in the Current Account domain including
o Packaged Paid for Accounts Benefits
o Charging Rules Monthly Fees
o Eligibility Suitability Rules
o Account Lifecycle Events
o Overdrafts Mandates CASS Switching

• Experience working with UK Tier 1 retail banking platforms
• Digital Architecture Skills
• Strong experience delivering digital transformation across
  o Mobile Online Banking Channels
  o Digital Customer Onboarding
  o Customer Servicing Platforms.
  
  

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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