Job Summary: Senior CIB Enterprise Architect Transformation

- Define decision-ready reference architectures for priority SCIB capabilities, including capability decomposition, architecture principles, data/integration patterns, and transition implications.
- Challenge senior technology and business stakeholders on current architectures, inherited constraints, platform strategies, and investment assumptions to drive convergence toward target decisions.
- Map current application and platform landscape against target architecture, identifying duplication, fragmentation, obsolescence, dependencies, risks, and consolidation opportunities.
- Translate architecture decisions into application-level actions (adopt, consolidate, migrate, invest, contain, retire), including dependencies and transition sequencing.
- Assess market and vendor solutions for buy/build/reuse decisions, considering market maturity, adoption in similar institutions, integration fit, lock-in, and total cost of ownership.
- Prepare and lead architecture decision forums and domain working groups, presenting options, trade-offs, recommendations, and required decisions.
- Address EUCs and AI-enabled local solutions by defining classification, minimum controls, ownership, and transition paths within the target architecture.
- Convert architecture decisions into fundable initiatives, including preliminary business cases, expected benefits, complexity, risks, and input to investment cycles.
- Engage and constructively challenge senior technology stakeholders; communicate clearly in English.
- Work hands-on to develop/challenge architectures, analyze application/platform landscapes, formulate target-state options, and produce decision-ready recommendations.
- Occasional travel may be required.

Required Skills & Experience:
- 8+ years in technology architecture or transformation, with at least 3 years in CIB/wholesale banking.
- Experience defining reference or target architectures in complex environments.
- Experience in application landscape rationalization, platform consolidation, or technology modernization.
- Strong ability to perform current-to-target assessments across applications, data, integration, cloud, resilience, and cybersecurity.
- Professional fluency in English (minimum B2, ideally C1), both written and spoken.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or similar (MBA/postgraduate in finance/tech management a plus).

Nice to Have:
- Strong knowledge of a major CIB domain or transversal platform.
- Experience leading integral or cross-domain transformation initiatives.
- Experience assessing buy/build/reuse alternatives, market solutions, and TCO.
- Experience working with large application portfolios and producing decision-ready materials.

Other Information:
- Two parallel positions available, each working across different capability domains.
- Role is hands-on, not limited to governance or facilitation.

📌 SOLUTION ARCHITECT SPECIALIST (Madrid)
🏢 INSIGHT INTERNATIONAL (UK
📍 Madrid