Consulting Practice Manager - Core Banking

Role Overview: As a consulting business, customer relationships are crucial for growing the business. You will be the face of the company at customer sites, focusing on establishing strong relationships and trust with customers while delivering high-quality projects, services, and advice. Your skills and capabilities will be the most valuable asset for Consulting. Key Responsibilities: - Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders in Consulting Sales and Delivery, assisting in defining and delivering high-quality enterprise solutions. - Collaborate with stakeholders to develop practical roadmaps for moving the enterprise towards the future state vision, considering business, technical, and delivery constraints. - Analyze stakeholder requirements, current state architecture, and gaps to create a future state architecture vision, emphasizing reduced complexity, cost efficiencies, reuse, convergence, reduced risk, and improved business capabilities. - Participate in defining and operating the architecture governance process to ensure alignment of change initiatives with the vision and roadmaps. - Work closely with Domain Architects on key initiatives to apply architecture principles, develop reference architectures, and design patterns. - Communicate principles, standards, vision, and roadmaps to stakeholders, addressing any questions or concerns proactively. - Provide thought leadership on architectural topics, developing a forward-looking view of current and emerging technologies and their impact on Enterprise Architecture. - Implement Platform Thinking in all aspects of work. - Enhance workflows and processes, assigning clear accountabilities across teams to achieve objectives. - Foster a culture of learning and development, supporting team members and others in their professional growth. Qualifications Required: - Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent; a Master's degree in Business or Technology is advantageous. - Possess a formal architecture certification such as TOGAF or equivalent. - Minimum of 15 years" experience in the IT industry, preferably in large, complex enterprises. - At least 7 years" experience in Enterprise Architecture within a large, complex, multi-location, multi-national environment. - Demonstrated expertise in delivering mission-critical, enterprise-scale IT solutions in a diverse technology environment. - Deep domain knowledge in Application Architecture encompassing EAI, Microservices, and Cloud-native technologies.,