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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.
- Architecture Acceleration & Transition: Provide guidance and support to establish, run and transition our clients’ Enterprise Architecture function by developing our Agile Architecture PoV and Architecture function in a Box.
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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What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
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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.
- Lead architecture teams that deliver Enterprise Architecture or technology strategies.
- Lead definition and delivery of the client’s architecture vision, as well as effective architecture options analysis & design decisions.
- Lead definition and execution of the client’s architecture management, governance and assurance process.
- Lead the development of architecture methods and collateral to build architecture community and capability.
- Use architecture knowledge and skills to support business development, build external eminence and lead the planning and running of architecture learning and development initiatives.
- Communicate to CTO/CIOs and board stakeholders on next generation digital and innovative technology solutions. Drive large complex and innovative transformation programmes through the development and delivery of technology architecture.
- Create propositions driving business development activities in the Banking, Capital Markets and Investment management industry.
- Provide mentorship and build competence in TV&A team in the areas of Banking, Capital Markets and Investment Management industry domain.
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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.
- Experience working with relevant applications including treasury solutions, trading solutions, market research platforms.
- Demonstrated experience of using new generation technology for digital banking clients e.g., AI for onboarding; leveraging cloud technologies such as Banking as a Service, adoption of data analytics for risk assessment and predictive analytics on customer behaviour and pending; blockchain/DLT and zero trust security architecture to protect sensitive and personal data.
- Build external and internal eminence by contributing your thought leadership (e.g., by speaking at industry events or publications).
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.
- Expertise in delivering the architecture and design for multiple core banking implementations to support retail lending products such as mortgages and personal loans.
- Expertise in delivering the architecture and design for multiple core banking implementations for corporate lending products such as complex corporate loans (term loans, revolving credit), trade finance and asset finance.
- Expertise in delivering the architecture and design for loan origination solutions and credit processing solutions to support retail and corporate products.
- Experience in architecture design for leading core banking vendor products from Thought Machine, FIS, Finastra, ORACLE, Mambu or 10X or equivalent.
- Expertise in architecture design for origination products from nCino and Trade Ledger.
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.
- Understanding of front office solutions for trade lifecycle, pricing and fees management and middle office solutions for the management of tenor limits, counterparty and settlement limits and P&L.
- Experience of post-trade processing such as messaging and matching, workflow management, corporate actions and the flow into accounting solutions.
- Experience in integrating with and / or architecting trading risk solutions.
- Understanding of trade research architectures.
- Expertise in architecting and designing leading Capital Markets solutions from vendors such as Murex or Adenza (formerly Calyspso)
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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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We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
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