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Capco

Senior Solutions Architect - Financial Services

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London, United Kingdom

Full Time

27-02-2025

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Senior Solutions Architect - Technology
Joining Capco means joining an organisation that is committed to an inclusive working environment where you're encouraged to  Be Yourself At Work. We celebrate individuality and recognize that diversity and inclusion, in all forms, is critical to success. It's important to us that we recruit and develop as diverse a range of talent as we can and we believe that everyone brings something different to the table - so we'd love to know what makes you different. Such differences may mean we need to make changes to our process to allow you the best possible platform to succeed, and we are happy to cater to any reasonable adjustments you may require. You will find the section to let us know of these at the bottom of your application form or you can mention it directly to your recruiter at any stage and they will be happy to help.
ABOUT CAPCO
Capco is a global technology and business consultancy, focused on the financial services sector. We are passionate about helping our clients succeed in an ever-changing industry.
We are/have:
Experts in Banking & Payments, Capital Markets, Insurance and Wealth & Asset Management
Deep knowledge in financial services offering, including eg Finance, Risk and Compliance, Financial Crime, Core Banking etc.
Committed to growing our business and hiring the best talent to help us get there.
A growing Cloud community of professionals from architecture to advisory to delivery, founded on real delivery expertise
Focused on maintaining our nimble, agile and entrepreneurial culture
Who are Capco Architects?
We are a team of people who are curious and willing to never stop learning. We have a passion for new technologies and understand how they can help deal with today's business challenges. We have confidence in our ideas but we are modest about how we conduct ourselves. We have a proactive, innovative and flexible working style with a teaching mindset; coaching our junior architects through their work.
What are we looking for?
Capco are looking for Solution Architects to help our clients solve a range of complex problems. We help clients design exceptional customer experiences and products, we also help them look hard at getting the best out of new technology and integrating it into their existing organisations.
Our solution architects are pivotal team members, helping turn great ideas into actionable solutions using a range of business and technology capabilities.
This is a role for you if you are looking for an outcome-oriented role, as part of a creative and dynamic team helping financial services clients make sense of the choices they face in the digital business environment.
Skills & Experience
Customer centricity - the ability to empathise with customers and an affinity to create solutions designed to deliver a great customer experience
Knowledge of a range of architectural skills which could include modern solution design, Target operating models, Solution Estimation and Planning or Architecture Governance (ideally in an Agile context)
A strong technical background with demonstrable expertise in at least one of AWS, GCP or Azure.
Familiarity with cybersecurity, security architecture or closely related topics like identity and access management, or offensive security engineering
An understanding of the end to end technology delivery life cycle, with exposure to working in agile alongside product, engineering and software delivery professionals.
Industry/domain experience and expertise within at least one of Capital Markets, Retail Banking & Payments, Insurance or Wealth & Asset Management.
Commercially minded with experience of business development & other capability development activities if joining at more senior grades (Principal Consultant/Managing Principal).
Desirable but not mandatory:
Product Implementation experience
Management Consultancy experience
WHY JOIN CAPCO?
Because you are curious, because you want to know what is going on inside engaging projects with some of the largest banks in the world and because you want to work on projects that transform the financial services industry.
We offer:
A work culture focused on innovation and creating lasting value for our clients and employees
Ongoing learning opportunities to help you acquire new skills or deepen existing expertise
A flat, non-hierarchical structure that will enable you to work with senior partners and directly with clients
A diverse, inclusive, meritocratic culture
Enhanced and competitive family friendly benefits, including maternity/adoption/shared parental leave and paid leave for sickness, pregnancy loss, fertility treatment, menopause and bereavement
We have been informed of several recruitment scams targeting the public. We strongly advise you to verify identities before engaging in recruitment related communication. All official Capco communication will be conducted via a Capco recruiter.

About the Company

Capco, a Wipro company, is a global technology and management consultancy specializing in driving digital transformation in the financial services industry. With a growing client portfolio comprising of over 100 global organizations, Capco operates at the intersection of business and technology by combining innovative thinking with unrivalled industry knowledge to deliver end-to-end data-driven solutions and fast-track digital initiatives for banking and payments, capital markets, wealth and asset management, insurance, and ... Know more

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