Company Description
74Software is home for leading brands (Axway, SBS Software) with mission-critical enterprise applications and infrastructure software serving a growing range of markets and geographies – each with their own identities and value propositions.
SBS Software helps financial institutions navigate challenging and changing times. With our technology and strong commitment to being a trusted partner, we build software products for banks and enterprises. Now part of 74Software, a major global software player, SBS brings decades of expertise to the finance industry, supporting banks and financial institutions on their digital transformation journey.
SBS is a trusted partner of more than 1,500 financial institutions and large-scale lenders in 80 countries worldwide, including Santander, Societé Generale, KCB Bank, Kensington Mortgages, Mercedes-Benz, and Toyota FS. Its cloud platform offers clients a composable architecture to digitize operations, ranging from banking, lending, compliance, to payments, and consumer and asset finance.
With 3,400 employees in 50 offices, SBS is recognized as a Top 10 European Fintech company by IDC and as a leader in Omdia’s Universe: Digital Banking Platforms. SBS is headquartered in Paris, France.
Axway is a global software company specializing in API management, MFT, and B2B integration. Trusted by thousands of enterprises worldwide, Axway delivers proven solutions that enable secure, scalable, and reliable AI-ready ecosystems.
Job Description
Role Purpose
The Head of Product & Technical Consultancy leads a specialist team that bridges product capability, technology, and client needs. Shaping scalable solutions, guiding complex design decisions, and ensuring consultancy outputs accelerate successful delivery and adoption.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Team Management
* Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing Product & Technical Consultancy function.
* Set clear priorities, ways of working, quality standards, and performance expectations.
* Build capability across product knowledge, architecture, integration patterns, and delivery methods.
Product & Technical Advisory
* Responsible for the consultancy approach for product and technical design across all client engagements.
* Provide technical governance and oversight across solution design, integration, configuration, and customisation.
* Translate business requirements into product-led, technically feasible designs and roadmaps.
* Ensure designs align to platform strategy, baseline configuration, and long-term maintainability.
Stakeholder & Client Engagement
* Act as a senior client-facing leader, supporting technical credibility, influencing decisions, and de-risking delivery.
* Partner with Business Consulting, PS Delivery, QA/Testing, Support/Service, Engineering, and Product Management.
* Support commercial efforts where needed (RFPs, bids, shaping, scoping, estimates).
Standards, Governance & Continuous Improvement
* Implement repeatable consulting assets, templates, patterns, accelerators, and reusable approaches.
* Drive continuous improvement based on delivery outcomes, defects, and client feedback.
* Ensure adherence to governance, documentation discipline, and technical best practice.
Success Measures (KPIs)
* Reduced delivery risk and improved quality through stronger design assurance.
* Increased baseline adoption / reduced unnecessary customisation.
* Improved client satisfaction for design and technical decision making.
* Stronger cross-team alignment between Product, Engineering, and PS Delivery.
* Improved team capability and utilisation.
Qualifications
* Proven leadership experience in Product Consultancy / Technical Consultancy / Solutions Architecture within a software organisation.
* Strong understanding of enterprise solution delivery including integrations, APIs, data migration, environments, and release processes.
* Track record of leading discovery and design phases for complex client implementations.
* Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence senior internal and client leadership.
* Comfortable operating across strategy and detail, able to dive deep when needed.
Desirable
* Experience in regulated industries (e.g., financial services).
* Familiarity with core banking / lending / savings platforms (where relevant).
* Experience shaping consulting “packages” or repeatable propositions.
Personal Attributes
* Commercially aware, outcome-driven, and pragmatic.
* Clear communicator who can simplify complexity and lead decisions.
* High standards, structured thinker, strong accountability.
* Collaborative leader who builds trust and capability.
Additional Information
Salary Range: 90,000£ - 100,000£/year
At our organization, we are committed to fighting against all forms of discrimination. We foster a work environment that is inclusive and respectful of all differences.
All of our positions are open to people with disabilities.
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