You hold the success of the businesses you work for as paramount. You know how to help clients identify changes that makes a real difference to their business and how technology can enable them to thrive.

We use tools, processes and solutions required to achieve our client s vision in an efficient, compliant and cost-effective manner. We work with different areas of the business to tackle our client s challenges and identify how technology can help them thrive.

Key experience and responsibilities:

• Experience as business architect in Wealth and Asset Management
• Financial Services practitioner or SME level domain knowledge in Wealth and Asset Management.
• In depth understanding of Financial Planning, Investment Management, and Investment Risk Management
• In depth understanding of Professional Services
• Degree from a reputable university.
• Value proposition identification and development including launch of brand-new products & services to market.
• Experience in Op Model transformation including org design and large-scale automation of divisions, departments and functions.
• Able to quickly understand and document problem statements, value chains and OpModels using industry frameworks & standards, working high to low, including but not limited to policy, procedures and processes at whole org or sub-org levels.
• Able to independently own design problems and statements front to back without support, engaging, stakeholders, SMEs, product managers, BAs, Solution Architects to achieve the required Business Architecture outcomes.
• Competitor and market scanning of key developments, including but not limited to, trends, legal, regulatory, etc
• Able to segment client propositions and books and identify growth & cost saving opportunities.
• Identify and define high-level business and customer requirements and change roadmaps.
• Work with the other domain architects to explore specific solutions and define the scope of the project.
• Help define front to back performance goals and metrics for the proposed solution.
• Review prototypes, solution blueprints, and project scope to ensure client and colleague needs are being met.
• Run and facilitate the Design Authority forum and ensure client and colleague needs will be met by proposed change and solutions.
• Provide thought leadership and oversight to Business Analysts and Service Designers, identifying value add options and solutions.
• Excellent engagement with stakeholders and able to run workshops independently and coordinate as part of a wider team.
• Able to write white papers in area of expertise.

This is a 6-month contract opportunity offering a competitive day rate (inside IR35) to work with one of our Financial Services clients. We have a 30-year track-record of delivering complex, business-critical IT transformation projects moving seamlessly from strategy, design, delivery through to operations.

We have helped improve some of the biggest organisations in the UK and Europe across three core sectors: Finance and Insurance, Energy and Commercial and the Public Sector. Solving complex technology problems to create competitive advantage through the advanced application of Cloud, Digital and Data technologies; growing revenues, reducing costs, and improving efficiency and effectiveness for our clients.

Credera is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society. We believe that diversity makes us a stronger team so seek to employ people with different ideas, styles and skill sets, each able to contribute in unique ways to our organisation s growth and success.