Associate Director, BODS – Digital Architect, Operations Industry & Domain Solutions, Technology & Transformation
Basic information
Location
Edinburgh, London, Manchester
Business Line
Job Type
Permanent / FTC
Date published
17-Oct-2025
21084
Connect to your Industry
The banking industry has been revolutionised by digital challenger banks and a vast FinTech landscape. Banking Operations and Domain Solutions (BODS) is a Deloitte Operations Industry & Domain Solutions team who adopts a technology focused approach in delivering business benefit to our clients. Our banking clients engage us to solve their most complex problems, help shape technology strategies and most importantly, to deliver those strategies through modern technology solutions.
As part of this team, you’ll work alongside a team of Banking specialists from across retail & commercial banking, where you will take an active role in shaping and architecting transformational solutions for our clients. You’ll be working with likeminded Subject-Matter Experts and be a pivotal part of our growing solution architecture capability.
Our clients range from the largest, most important Banks and Financial Institutions from across the UK, Europe, and the Middle East, to the modern digital challenger banks and the FinTech companies that help them grow.
With our global alliances with key technology partners, you will help us strive to deliver modern, innovation and cutting-edge technology to our clients.
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As an Associate Director, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering core banking transformation projects for our clients. Your responsibilities will vary depending on the client and project phase, but will consistently involve:
* Leading the design and implementation of modular and composable core banking solutions: This includes understanding the client's current state, defining future state architecture, and identifying the optimal components for deployment. Deep understanding of modular architecture principles and their application in core banking ecosystem is crucial.
* Guiding clients through the selection and implementation of next-generation core banking platforms: experience with platforms such as 10x, Thought Machine, Mambu & Starling engine is essential.
* Managing requirements gathering and solution design: You will work closely with product owners, solution architects, development teams, and programme managers, leveraging agile methodologies throughout the software delivery lifecycle. This includes backlog definition, story mapping, writing user stories and developing design documents.
* Appreciation of emerging technology and trends in banking with an understanding and knowledge of different players in the core banking ecosystem, ranging from specialized cores to Banking-as-Service solutions.
* Understanding of core banking modules, including knowledge of front, middle, and/or back-office capabilities and key trends impacting these capabilities in the market.
* Acting as point of contact for key Core Banking partners, managing relationships with them and ensuring their capabilities meet the need of our clients.
* Overseeing programme management efforts and coordinating multiple interconnected workstreams to ensure alignment and successful delivery of core banking solutions.
* Collaborating with engineering and platform teams on tasks such as setting up environments, configuration and supporting technical and product aspects of various core implementations.
* Driving data-driven decisions and process optimisation: You will leverage data analysis to inform design choices and ensure efficient processes.
* Mentoring and coaching junior team members: You will contribute to the development of our business analysis capability by guiding and supporting less experienced colleagues.
* Building and maintaining strong client relationships: You will collaborate effectively with stakeholders across IT, operations, and risk.
* Contributing to business development: You will participate in pre-sales activities, bid preparation, and client presentations.
Connect to your skills and professional experience
You are an enthusiastic, passionate, independent thinker. These attributes will help you work with your teams to drive change and real impact in the banking industry, demonstrating your excellent communication and presentation skills.
You are technically minded and enjoy solving complex problems. You enjoy challenging yourself with new problems and bring a technical mindset and skillset to reaching into the detail of complex problems to identify and deliver technical solutions.
You are on the pulse of the banking industry. You are up to date on the latest banking trends and technology. You know the problems our clients face and the solutions available to resolve them.
We are recruiting candidates with the following experience:
* Proven Digital and Solution Architecture experience working with modern digital solutions, cloud platforms, modern integration (e.g. latest API practices or equivalent) and architecture patterns including MicroServices.
* Architecture and design experience for next-gen core banking platforms (e.g., Mambu, 10x, Thought Machine, Pismo, Starling Engine) and/or transformation delivery involving such systems.
* A working knowledge of platform, infrastructure, and data architecture (including cyber security and networking patterns).
* Demonstrated technology delivery experienced including a thorough understanding of all stages of the delivery lifecycle (discovery, design, delivery, transition), gained through a leading bank, consulting firm, fintech or leading firm outside of Financial Services.
* Demonstrated experience in defining architecture principles and solution designs that adhere to these principles, common architecture patterns and practices.
* Appreciation of emerging technology and trends in banking.
* Exceptional communication and client management skills, able to convey complex technology concepts and decisions to stakeholders within the business context.
* Been part of digital transformation project lifecycles in defining end to end solution designs and delivering innovative solutions, including integration of emerging technology solutions.
* Deep Experience in leading teamsof architects and / or technologists, and initiatives within a wider complex digital transformation programme.
* You will have experience in delivering through various ways of working, including waterfall and various agile methodologies.
* Analysing and defining solution options and brokering buy‑in, consensus and decision making from technical and business stakeholders.
* Experience as a technology lead who can work closely with developers, testers and other agile roles to help shape delivery.
The Desirables:
* Certification or demonstrated knowledge of one of the major Cloud Service Providers – Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure Platform or equivalent.
* Proven adaptability and ability to shift focus and work with varied subject matters and work across different projects and project types.
* Experience of banking products, processes, and technology, in at least one (preferably multiple) of:
* Corporate and Transactional banking
* Retail banking
* Credit Cards
* Payments
* Digital (e.g. online banking, mobile app) and Non-Digital (e.g. contact centre) Banking Channels
* Banking Regulation (e.g. PSRs, PSD2, Open Banking, MiFIR/MiFID, GDPR, Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act)
* Knowledge of the typical end-to-end banking architecture, key systems and key challenges from both regulation and latest innovations and competition from challenger banks.
* Good understanding of key banking business processes across the value chain or at least in one domain.
* Experience in assessing banking IT landscapes, business drivers and understanding impact of emerging technologies to define target and transition state architectures.
* A background in software engineering or experience with hands‑on technology development and delivery.
Preferably you will also have:
* Industry certifications such as BCS, SCRUM, SAFe, PMP among others.
* Enterprise or solution architecture certification (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman or equivalent).
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