Solutions Architect - Technology

Solutions Architect - Technology

Joining Capco means joining an organisation that is committed to an inclusive working environment where you're encouraged to . We celebrate individuality and recognize that diversity and inclusion, in all forms, is critical to success.

ABOUT CAPCO

Capco is a global technology and business consultancy, focused on the financial services and energy sector. We are passionate about helping our clients succeed in an ever-changing industry.

We are/have:

• Experts in Banking & Payments, Capital Markets, Insurance, Wealth & Asset Management and Energy
• Deep knowledge in financial services offering, including e.g. 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.

What are we looking for?

Capco are looking for Solution Architects to help our clients solve a range of complex problems. 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.

What kind of work will I do?

Capco consultants work on a wide variety of client challenges; consequently, we value intellectual flexibility and curiosity as highly as we do quality and rigour.

For example, our architects play pivotal roles in helping our clients with problems such as designing and executing dev-ops strategies, launching new API market offerings and mobile applications to improve market share, creating new machine learning and data analytics services in the cloud, and even building entirely new challenger banks.

You won't be alone in this. Our architects work as a key part of cross-disciplinary project teams comprised of digital and technology professionals with specific industry and functional domain skills and experience.

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 is desirable
• An understanding of the end to end technology delivery lifecycle, 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, Wealth & Asset Management or Energy.
• 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

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