Principal/Director Technology Consultant (Financial Services) London, UK

Responsibilities

• Lead the elaboration and implementation of solutions from establishing project requirements and goals to solution "go-live"
• Provide Technology Consulting services across different Financial Services domains and technology solutions
• Provide leadership and governance across Architecture, Technology, Strategy, IT Organizational Change Management
• Build credibility with clients in a specific domain – either new or existing
• Identify new business opportunities and craft relevant solutions
• Formulate and present the overall technology business case in relation to the overall business strategy
• Share network and knowledge both within the UK Technology Consultancy Practice and with other EPAM Consultants globally
• Participate in the full cycle of pre-sale activities
• In the future, it is likely you will work with several clients and split time between Epam office and client’s location (Covid travel permitting)

Requirements

• Industry visionary and avid technologist at heart
• A senior proven leader who can lead a Technology Consulting capability
• Excellent customer facing skills, combined with a consultative, problem solving approach
• Excellent commercial awareness, business acumen and budget management
• Strong experience in leading and delivering technology streams for large scale complex transformation projects
• Ability to act as hands-on technology lead in the client project delivery, part of Epam delivery team
• Excellent understanding of major functional capabilities across Financial Services as well as common platform solutions leveraged by Financial Services Institutions, including but not limited to:
  • Retail / Investment Banking / Asset Management / Wealth Management / Payments
• Ability to execute and lead on rapid conceptual designs, proof-of-concepts and client presentation
• Contribute to the growth of the Technology Consultancy practice within Epam and promotion to the clients and market
• You will be responsible for hiring, team growth and management of your team efforts outside of their commercial delivery efforts
• Well-versed in development of Enterprise and Solution Architecture, including governance, business drivers, technology and change management
• Strong experience of technology support for complex transformations using enterprise Agile delivery methods and frameworks, e.g. SAFe, DAD, LESS or other enterprise frameworks
• Deep understanding of architecture qualities such as: security, scalability, resiliency and availability in high performance low latency systems
• Experience migrating, modernising, integrating legacy platform in large enterprises
• Experience designing enterprise services or integration capabilities using REST APIs and event-driven technology
• Experience designing applications and technology solution leveraging native Cloud services (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Excellent documentation, presentation and communication skills
• Technical leadership in large multi-component, multi-team, multi-location projects
• Travel flexibility as the role will involve some degree of travel within UK and Europe as things get back to normal
• Any recognitions from industry bodies with regards to relevant FS domain, technology, or delivery frameworks and methodologies (e.g. TOGAF, FS qualifications, SAFe etc) will constitute an advantage

We offer

• We offer a range of benefits including
• A competitive group pension plan, life assurance and income protection
• Private medical insurance, private dental care and critical illness cover
• Cycle scheme Tech scheme and season ticket loan
• Employee assistance program
• Various perks such as Gym discount, Friday lunch, on-site massage and regular social events
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
• EPAM Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) (subject to certain eligibility requirements)
• Some of these benefits may be available only after you have passed your probationary period