Core Banking Architect

The engagement involves implementing Oracle FlexCube as a core banking platform, coordinating the software vendor, system integrator, and internal stakeholders to meet the institution’s strategic and operational requirements.

• Represent the client’s interests in interactions with Oracle and the system integrator, ensuring scope, design decisions, and delivery commitments align with business needs and contractual obligations
• Establish and maintain PMO governance frameworks, including steering committee reporting, RAID management, milestone tracking, and escalation protocols
• Monitor and control the project budget and timeline, identify deviations, assess their impact, and drive corrective actions
• Report project status, key risks, financial health, and strategic decisions to senior and executive management
• Oversee vendor and system integrator performance against contractual SLAs, deliverables, and quality standards; challenge and validate estimates, change requests, and resource plans
• Manage change control, assessing the impact of scope changes on budget, timeline, and business outcomes before approval
• Ensure deliverables meet acceptance criteria and testing strategies, including SIT, UAT, performance, and migration testing, support go-live readiness
• Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, especially those involving integration complexity, data migration, regulatory compliance, and operational readiness
• Coordinate business units, IT, operations, compliance, and finance to ensure end-to-end readiness for the new core banking platform
• Drive cutover planning, business continuity considerations, and post-implementation support frameworks for a smooth production transition

• 10+ Years of project/programme management experience in financial services, focused on capital markets and/or retail or commercial banking
• Proven experience with core banking implementations, ideally Oracle FlexCube, Universal Banking, or similar modules; experience with Temenos T24, Finacle, or Mambu is also considered
• Deep understanding of banking operations, including deposits, lending, payments, treasury, regulatory reporting, and accounting integration
• Experience managing vendor and system integrator relationships in complex technology transformation programmes
• Strong expertise in PMO methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid) and relevant certifications (PMP, PRINCE2, MSP, or equivalent)
• Executive-level communication skills and the ability to synthesize complex technical and operational information into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership
• Fluent Spanish (native or C2 level)
• Professional English proficiency
• Availability to work Spanish business hours (approximately 9:00–18:00 CET/CEST)
• Будет плюсом: experience with regulatory environments in the Spanish/European banking sector (ECB, Bank of Spain requirements), familiarity with legacy core banking data migration strategies, experience with similar core banking implementations, Agile certifications (SAFe, Scrum Master)

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