Project Consultant, Core Banking

About the Project Consultant, Core Banking Role

We are seeking a Technology Project Consultant and lead with robust banking domain experience and a consulting mindset, ideally with exposure to Big 4 firms or internal transformation teams. This role combines technology delivery, structured problem-solving, and senior stakeholder advisory, driving complex initiatives across digital, regulatory, and core banking environments.

Hybrid Working

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Capgemini offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your Role

• Shape complex problems into clear delivery roadmaps using structured consulting style thinking.
• Support technology-led transformation initiatives.
• Produce executive-ready materials: status packs, decision papers, risk assessments.
• Lead organisational change activities including impact analysis, readiness planning, and transition management.
• Ensure smooth adoption across impacted business units.
• Lead end-to-end delivery across the SDLC, ensuring alignment with architecture, security, and risk teams.
• Define scope, delivery approach, timelines, and budgets; manage multi-team dependencies.
• Apply Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid models; lead sprints, release planning, Kanban boards, and governance ceremonies.
• Maintain Gantt charts, RAID logs, and delivery dashboards; ensure project governance through PMP/Prince2 practices.
• Ensure documentation traceability and audit readiness across all workstreams.
• Manage senior stakeholders with clarity and structure; run steering committees and escalation forums.
• Oversee vendors, offshore teams, and system integrators; manage contracts, SLAs, and dependencies.
• Foster strong client and business relationships to ensure alignment and adoption.

Your Skills

• Strong consulting style capabilities: structured problem-solving, executive communication, analytical rigor.
• Experience managing complex multi-stream technology programs.
• Strong planning, risk management, and delivery tracking skills.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.

Nice to Have (not Mandatory)

• Big 4 or consulting experience.
• Background in digital transformation, cloud migration, or core banking modernization.
• Certifications: PMP, Prince2, SAFe, Scrum Master, PMI-ACP.

Key skills/competency

• Core Banking
• Project Management
• Consulting
• Stakeholder Management
• Agile/Waterfall
• SDLC
• Risk Management
• Digital Transformation
• Change Management
• Vendor Management