Core Banking Architect (h/f)

Key Responsibilities

• Provide architectural leadership and assurance across a core banking replacement programme.
• Assess and challenge solution designs produced by delivery teams, ensuring alignment to target architecture and strategic objectives.
• Review end-to-end business, application, data, and integration architectures.
• Support the design and delivery of a parallel-build migration approach from Legacy platforms to the target core banking solution.
• Identify architectural risks, dependencies, technical debt, and mitigation strategies.
• Ensure consistency across multiple workstreams and delivery teams.
• Work closely with programme leadership, product owners, architects, and engineering teams to maintain architectural integrity throughout delivery.
• Produce architecture assessments, recommendations, governance materials, and executive-level reporting.
• Present findings, risks, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership and C-suite stakeholders.

Required Experience

• 10+ years' experience in architecture roles within banking or financial services.
• Proven experience supporting or leading core banking transformation programmes in an architecture role
• Demonstrable experience of core banking replacement, modernisation, or migration initiatives.
• Deep understanding of the architecture principles underpinning modern banking platforms.
• Experience working within complex, regulated banking environments.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Our people

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project life cycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project life cycle.