Head of Core Banking Platforms
Posted 3 days ago by Gold Group
Negotiable
Inside
Undetermined
London
Summary: The Head of Core Banking Systems role is a 6-month contract position based in London, focused on providing expert guidance on core banking platforms, particularly SBS/SOPRA. The successful candidate will leverage approximately 10 years of experience in banking architecture and core banking engineering to influence decisions and drive integration strategies. This position requires a strong technical understanding of banking products and processes, along with hands-on expertise in cloud-native architectures. The role involves collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure successful implementation and integration of core banking systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Review, challenge, and steer decisions relating to the core banking platform, with a primary focus on SOPRA/SBS.
- Provide architectural and technical guidance for all core banking components and integrations.
- Evaluate, critique, and challenge proposals from partners and suppliers (e.g., Sopra, Atos).
- Configure and optimise the banking engine while maintaining strong understanding of product functionality.
- Lead digital, cloud, and AI driven integration strategies within the core banking estate.
- Promote and support event driven architectures and AWS aligned, cloud native patterns.
- Support large scale integration and migration efforts, including legacy system conversion.
- Drive end to end architectural oversight across build, test, and release cycles.
- Work collaboratively with Enterprise Architecture, Programme Managers, System Integrators, and delivery teams.
Key Skills:
- Deep, hands-on experience with core banking platforms, ideally SBS/SOPRA.
- Approximately 10 years+ experience in banking architecture, core banking engineering, or solution architecture.
- Demonstrable ability to influence, challenge, and direct suppliers and internal stakeholders.
- Strong technical understanding of banking products, processes, and industry standards.
- Proven experience in core banking implementation and large-scale system integrations.
- Experience in FinTech or modern digital banking environments.
- Hands-on expertise with event-based architectures and cloud-native integration models (AWS preferred).
- Evidence of delivery ownership across full build/test/release cycles.
- Experience of legacy system conversion projects.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Finance
Head of Core Banking Systems
London
6 month contract
Inside IR35
Head of Core Banking Systems needed for a leading financial organisation based in London for a 6 month contract, who are looking to employ an experienced Head of Core Banking systems to act as the expert on core banking systems with an in-depth knowledge of core banking platforms, ideally SBS/SOPRA to act as the expert on core banking systems with approximately 10 years+ experience in banking architecture, core banking engineering, or solution architecture.
Some of the main duties of the Head of Core Banking Systems will include:
- Review, challenge, and steer decisions relating to the core banking platform, with a primary focus on SOPRA/SBS.
- Provide architectural and technical guidance for all core banking components and integrations.
- Evaluate, critique, and challenge proposals from partners and suppliers (e.g., Sopra, Atos).
- Configure and optimise the banking engine while maintaining strong understanding of product functionality.
- Lead digital, cloud, and AI driven integration strategies within the core banking estate.
- Promote and support event driven architectures and AWS aligned, cloud native pat-terns.
- Support large scale integration and migration efforts, including legacy system conversion.
- Drive end to end architectural oversight across build, test, and release cycles.
- Work collaboratively with Enterprise Architecture, Programme Managers, System Integrators, and delivery teams.
What you need to be the successful Head of Core Banking Systems:
- Deep, hands-on experience with core banking platforms, ideally SBS/SOPRA.
- Approximately 10 years+ experience in banking architecture, core banking engineering, or solution architecture.
- Demonstrable ability to influence, challenge, and direct suppliers and internal stakeholders.
- Strong technical understanding of banking products, processes, and industry standards.
- Proven experience in core banking implementation and large-scale system integrations.
- Experience in FinTech or modern digital banking environments.
- Hands-on expertise with event-based architectures and cloud-native integration models (AWS preferred).
- Evidence of delivery ownership across full build/test/release cycles.
- Experience of legacy system conversion projects.
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