Banking Consulting Technical Manager

Banking Consulting Technical Manager

Position Description

We are seeking aspirational candidates who are interested in a career in Consulting to join our niche Banking Domain and Practice. The position will support Territory Heads, Delivery Managers, Portfolio and Project Managers and teams of talented, professional business and technology consultants in the delivery of business focused solutions for our clients using Oracle applications, tools and technology. Utilizing sound product skills and experience, the successful applicant will work on value consulting, solutioning and transforming and addressing complex business requirements into sound and optimal solutions to achieve successful outcomes for our customers, partners and associates and drive towards client and customer reference ability. Longer term you will grow, with the help of extensive training and experience of the team around you, into a seasoned employee and become a Subject Matter experts in Business domain and or Solution Architecture with full accountability and responsibility of the delivered solution for your own projects, programs and territory and larger region and organization.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent; Master's degree in Business or Technology is an advantage
• Formal architecture certification (TOGAF or equivalent)
• At least 10 years' experience in the IT industry, preferably in large, complex enterprises
• At least 7 years' experience in Enterprise Architecture in a large, complex, multi-location, multi-national environment
• Deep experience delivering mission critical, enterprise scale IT solutions in a heterogeneous technology environment
• Demonstrate deep domain expertise in Application Architecture in EAI, Micro Services and Cloud native technologies
• Experience in Domain driven and Event driven architecture and in technologies such as Kafka and Spark
• Experience in architecture , designing and developing large scale high performance retail business banking solutions utilizing a mixture of Open systems and messaging and high performance DB solutions. Experience in log analysis and log based monitoring (e.g. ELK) and metrics driven monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus)
• Direct experience with highly scalable enterprise applications, designing high performance, low latency solutions with high availability and near or no data loss.
• Experience in Containerization like Docker and Orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Exposure to Oracle technologies like OSB, ODI or similar Middleware messaging and ESB and ETL tools.
• Familiarity with:
  • best practice methodologies and tools for the entire solution lifecycle from ideation to requirements, design, development, testing, deployment and operations
  • one or more formal Architecture frameworks / methodologies (TOGAF, Zachman, BIAN, etc.)
  • architecture governance frameworks
  • heterogeneous technology platforms such as AS400, Unix/Linux, Windows
• A deep understanding of all domains of Enterprise Architecture, including the business, data, application, infrastructure and security domains
• Possess strong understanding of business strategies and able to translate them into concrete achievable action plans
• Practical experience in:
  • data modelling, object modelling, design patterns and Enterprise Architecture tool or other software modelling tools.
  • business capabilities model
• Advanced Relational Database Experience (RDBMS) in Oracle Multi-tenant database is an advantage
• Functional Expertise preferred (but not a mandatory requirement) in at least two of the below domains:
  • Branch Banking
  • CRM and e-CIF
  • Transaction Banking - Cash Management and Payments
  • Lending Origination and Servicing
  • Trade Finance & Supply Chain Finance
  • e-Channels, eco-system partnerships and API (Open Banking)
• Proven experience leading teams resulting in the successful deployment of applications built on Cloud or on-prem enterprise environments for large Tier-1 Banks and Financial institutions
• Candidates having experience with migrating from legacy applications to a solution utilizing methodologies and Platforms that will ensure least down-time, reduced risk and excellent customer experience both the customer and end-users of those services will be preferred.
• IT Strategy consulting experience will be an added advantage
• Comfortable in working in an environment which is mix of several parties and teams from customer as well from Oracle where collaboration is key.

Career Level - IC4