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Principal Digital Recruiter at Pontoon Solutions (Adecco)
London – Hybrid 3 days in office
12 month contract - extendable
Job Description:
We are seeking a strategic and forward-thinking Technology Strategy Consultant with deep expertise in Corporate and Commercial Banking to lead the transformation of our application landscape. This role is pivotal in shaping the future-state technology strategy, ensuring our applications, platforms, and technology investments are streamlined, modernized, and aligned with long-term business goals.
In this role, you will define and drive the application simplification strategy, creating a roadmap that enhances scalability, agility, and efficiency, while reducing complexity, cost, and third-party dependencies. Partnering with business and IT leaders, you will provide strategic guidance on technology modernization, digital enablement, and architectural evolution, ensuring our technology ecosystem is positioned to support future growth and innovation.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Develop and lead the execution of a holistic application simplification and modernization strategy, ensuring alignment with business transformation objectives in Corporate and Commercial Banking.
2. Conduct a current vs. target state analysis of the application portfolio, identifying inefficiencies, redundancies, and opportunities for rationalization and optimization.
3. Define a future-state application architecture that improves resilience, agility, and customer experience, while reducing cost and technical debt.
4. Lead efforts to reduce third-party dependencies, optimize vendor management, and enhance operational efficiency across the banking technology landscape.
5. Shape the technology roadmap for application simplification, ensuring alignment with cloud adoption, automation, and digital transformation initiatives.
6. Provide thought leadership on application modernization approaches, including legacy decommissioning, cloud migration, API-first architectures, and AI-driven efficiencies.
7. Develop business cases for technology investments, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and financial feasibility.
8. Perform cost-benefit analysis to evaluate technology initiatives, balancing cost reduction with value creation and ROI optimization.
9. Engage with cross-functional business and IT teams to ensure seamless alignment between technology investments, business goals, and regulatory compliance.
10. Define measurable KPIs and success metrics for application simplification initiatives, ensuring continuous value realization and impact assessment.
11. Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, advocating for best-in-class technology architecture, engineering excellence, and innovation within the banking domain.
12. Stay ahead of industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory shifts to inform future transformation strategies.
Qualifications & Experience:
1. Proven experience in technology strategy, application rationalization, and IT transformation within Corporate and Commercial Banking.
2. Deep understanding of enterprise architecture, cloud strategies, legacy modernization, and digital banking ecosystems.
3. Expertise in current and target state analysis, technology roadmaps, and cost optimization strategies.
4. Strong knowledge of banking applications, core banking platforms, payments, lending, trade finance, and risk & compliance technologies.
5. Experience in reducing third-party dependencies, optimizing vendor ecosystems, and enhancing IT efficiency.
6. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex technology challenges into strategic business solutions.
7. Ability to influence and engage at all levels, from technology teams to senior executives.
8. Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), DevOps, automation, API-led architectures, and microservices.
9. A track record of driving successful technology transformation initiatives in large-scale banking environments.
Preferred Qualifications:
1. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
2. Certifications in TOGAF, ITIL, AWS, Azure, or enterprise architecture frameworks.
3. Extensive experience in Corporate and Commercial Banking, with a deep understanding of its regulatory, operational, and technology challenges.
This is an opportunity to play a pivotal role in reshaping banking technology, ensuring a modern, scalable, and cost-efficient application landscape that drives long-term value.
If you believe you have the experience required, please apply with your CV now for instant consideration!
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Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.
Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.
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