Architects within the Expert Services team at Thought Machine play a crucial role in enabling clients to successfully modernise their core banking and payments systems using the Vault platform. This involves working across pre-sales and delivery engagements to provide expert advice on deployment, configuration, integration, and migration. The Architect will consult on the successful execution of end-to-end core replacement programmes. They are expected to have deep knowledge of the Vault product suite and future roadmap, both in terms of functionality offered, the non-functional requirements it has been designed to meet and the choices and constraints that have informed that architecture.
Key Responsibilities- Present Vault architecture and best practices to senior client stakeholders during pre-sales engagements and delivery.
- Interact with senior stakeholders across client organisations in both delivery and pre-sales, leveraging a broad consulting skillset.
- Work with banks to define target architectures and transition states for Vault implementations and migrations, ensuring the application of best practice.
- Design end-to-end solutions for core banking replacement initiatives, with the Vault product suite as the central component.
- Create and utilize AI agents to accelerate the delivery of architectural deliverables, and enable clients to take advantage of the same assets.
- Maintain an advanced level of understanding of the Vault platform and its future direction, providing a thorough overview to clients.
- Act as a self-sufficient consultant, often engaging with clients individually without continuous team support.
- Deliver training to client teams on Vault functionality and architecture.
- Create and maintain client-facing collateral on architectural topics.
- Interface with the Thought Machine product function to feedback necessary product features that allow clients to realise value, influencing the product roadmap.
RequirementsEssential- Experience designing enterprise architectures for large financial service institutions.
- Domain knowledge in banking, ideally core banking or payments, with an understanding of the business drivers and regulatory context influencing large-scale transformation programmes.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong technical background, with good practical knowledge of established architectural patterns such as event-based architecture, CQRS, and process orchestration.
- Expert knowledge of cloud technologies and architectures, including emerging approaches for achieving high availability and disaster recovery (e.g., running systems across multi-availability zones and regions).
- Strong client-facing skills with the ability to communicate and defend a technical position to a mixed and potentially senior audience (enterprise architects, engineers, and business stakeholders).
- Good understanding of the business context, regulatory environment, and motivations for banking transformations, informing advice with banking domain knowledge and understanding of transformation execution.
Desirable- Experience creating AI agents to accelerate delivery and improve efficiency.
- Some experience of large-scale migration programmes, particularly core banking migrations.
- Spanish language skills.
Benefits- Highly competitive salary
- Healthcare, vision and dental
- 25 days holiday
- Unlimited paid safe and sick time
- 401K matching (up to 7%)
- $750 per year flexible spend benefit
- Share options
- Commuter Pass
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Life and long-term disability insurance
- All the latest tech you need
- A talented and experienced team as your colleagues
- An environment where we encourage learning and progress
