Associate Director - Technology, Vision, Strategy & Architecture (Financial Services – Banking & Capital Markets)

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Technology, Vision & Architecture Our leading architecture group TV&A (Technology, Vision & Architecture), is positioned at the crucial intersection of business, technology, and industry to help our global clients reimagine their business through the latest technological advancements, solving our clients’ most complex business and technology problems and accelerating their IT modernisation and digital transformation journeys.

TV&A is responsible for assisting our global clients in answering their most challenging problems using 5 key pillars:

• Innovation & Tech Futures: Explore the latest technologies & build practical use cases in a hands-on approach, helping our clients reimagine their business.
• Enterprise & Business Architecture: Translate business vision into technology strategy to ensure foundational capabilities are in place.
• Transformation & Programme Architecture: Harnessing our expertise in EA & SA to set the strategic vision, create the blueprint for change as a precursor to driving delivery across programmes with complex interdependencies.
• Solution Architecture: Develop blueprints to implement a tailored solution that fulfils the strategy and provide technical assurance. Linking into Cloud, cyber, integration and much more.

We are responsible towards our clients in formulating their vision, strategy, Technology perspectives and outputs. Our recent perspectives and outputs include:

• Tech Trends 2023
• Trend Radar: The Future of Banking Publication
• Future of Money
• The Future of Retail Banking: The Hyper-Personalisation Imperative
• Financial Markets Infrastructure - Case for Change: An Exchange Perspective
• Credit Risk Measurement Technology Trends: Charting the Course from Legacy Issues to Strategic Solutions

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Our Tech Vision & Architecture (TV&A) operating unit in the UK is growing, and we are looking to hire experienced individuals to be part of a team delivering high-quality consultative services in a dynamic and growing marketplace. You will have the opportunity to become a key member of this team, working with not only some of the largest global companies, but some of the newest and most entrepreneurial businesses too. This exciting role will involve the following:

• Lead large client engagements, with a strong market trends awareness around the architecture, digital technologies, and cloud platforms.

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For Associate Director grade, you must demonstrate experience in:

• Strong understanding of financial services businesses, knowledge of the evolving market/industry trends and underlying architecture for enablement, as well as regulatory requirements.
• Identifying, leading, closing and supporting sales opportunities in the financial services technology market with a strong network of contacts across clients and the industry.
• Proficiency in software development lifecycle (SDLC) and demonstrates depth and breadth in at least 6 of these domains: Applications, Data, DevOps, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Machine Learning/AI, Platforms, Security, Integration,
• Business Architecture or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience in large-scale transformation programmes in Banking and Capital Markets.
• Experience in providing advisory services to Board-level and C-suite stakeholders.
• Experience working with financial services applications including Core Banking application, Document Management System, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications, Workflow / Business Process Management applications & Financial applications and the supporting tech stack for a bank’s operations or equivalent.

While the role requires the ability to operate as an Enterprise Architect across both the Banking and Capital Markets domain our architects are expected to have strong distinguishing specialisms in one of the domains that allows them to operate as a programme delivery architect as well as an enterprise-wide architect. The candidate therefore should have depth of expertise in one of the following specialisms.

For Banking, the desired specialism would be in core banking:

• Expertise in delivering the architecture and design for core banking implementations in the retail everyday banking space including accounts, deposits, savings, overdrafts, loan, payment and card functionality.

For Capital Markets, the desired specialism would be in front and middle office processing including:

• Broad product understanding from across both equities, derivative, rates and swap products.
• Trading and Portfolio Management expertise including an understanding of how this domain is technically changing to support new products like carbon trading in the burgeoning ESG arena.

Connect to your business - Technology and Transformation

Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters.

Enterprise, Technology and Performance

Our clients want to achieve maximum value from digital transformation investments in Finance, Supply Chain and IT operations. That’s where we come in. By taking a holistic view of performance improvement, including strategy, process design and technology enablement, we support the smooth operation of transformations.

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