Project Consultant; Core Banking expereince

Project Consultant (Core Banking)

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

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 company offices, client sites, and your home, noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

• 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 work streams
• 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

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

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

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level
2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and

• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. Please opt‑in during the application process.

• You’ll be joining an accredited Great Place to Work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce as a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained “Mental Health Champions” across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s “learning for life” mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from think tanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard Manage Mentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free‑thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can…