Solutions Architect

The Capgemini Financial Services Open Banking Centre of Excellence (COE) partners with leading banks to transform their Digital Client Self‑Service capabilities through API‑first, cloud‑native solutions.

As a Solution Architect, you will drive the design and delivery of end‑to‑end digital journeys—many of which require extensive collaboration across groups and functions beyond Corporate Banking. You will play a central role in architecting self‑service capabilities such as CONA, Sanctions, and Mandates journeys, ensuring they are secure, scalable, compliant, and optimised for a seamless customer experience.

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your Role

Digital Client Self‑Service Architecture

• Lead solution architecture for digital client self‑service capabilities, enabling clients to manage onboarding, permissions, mandates, sanctions checks, and account services through intuitive digital channels.
• Define target‑state digital journeys and API‑driven architectures that support straight‑through, real‑time, and self‑service execution for Corporate clients.

End‑to‑End Journey Design (Cross‑Group Collaboration)

• Own architecture for complex E2E journeys requiring collaboration across the wider Group, including Retail, Wealth, Payments, Compliance, Operations, and Legal.
• Ensure all upstream and downstream dependencies are captured, orchestrated, and aligned with regulatory, operational, and customer‑experience expectations.

Specialist Journey Ownership

• CONA (Customer Onboarding & Amendments): Architect the API, workflow, and data models enabling seamless client onboarding and profile amendments across multiple business lines.
• Sanctions Journeys: Design secure and compliant integrations with sanctions screening platforms, ensuring adherence to regulatory obligations, rapid decisioning, and traceability.
• Mandates & Authorisations: Define solutions for digital mandate management, including entitlement rules, signing authorities, approval workflows, and auditability.

Solution Delivery & Governance

• Produce high‑quality solution architecture artefacts: API specifications, integration maps, security patterns, sequence diagrams, and logical/physical designs.
• Engage stakeholders through workshops and design forums to align on solution direction and validate business and operational requirements.
• Present solutions to Architecture Review Boards and guide them through governance processes.
• Translate high‑level journeys into iterative, sprint‑ready components in partnership with delivery leads.
• Review designs and code from engineering teams to ensure alignment with architecture principles and end‑to‑end journey intent.
• Ensure change requests remain aligned with solution integrity and strategic architecture.
• Apply best practices in REST API design, authentication and authorization, security patterns, and microservices architecture.
• Promote enterprise‑wide standards around API modelling, documentation, versioning, and governance.
• Drive adoption of cloud‑native approaches, ensuring solutions leverage appropriate cloud services, resilience patterns, and observability frameworks.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing digital client self‑service platforms, preferably in financial services or corporate banking.
• Proven delivery of E2E cross‑functional journeys, engaging multiple business units such as Operations, Compliance, Legal, and Customer Servicing.
• Experience architecting journeys related to onboarding, sanctions screening, mandates/authorisations, or similar regulated workflows.
• Deep knowledge of API architecture, REST design principles, Swagger/OpenAPI/RAML, and API security standards.
• Familiarity with API management platforms (MuleSoft, Apigee, Kong, AWS API Gateway).
• Hands‑on experience with microservices, Java/Spring Boot, and cloud‑native deployment patterns.
• Strong understanding of OAuth2, OIDC, FAPI, and enterprise security controls.
• Knowledge of observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk or ELK.
• Experience with public cloud platforms, ideally AWS.
• Understanding of integration and event‑driven patterns (e.g., Kafka).

We are a Disability Confident Employer:

• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you)

• You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
• To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You’ll be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

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