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Enterprise Solution Lead (Senior Consultant) - Banking and Financial Services

London
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Enterprise Solution Lead/Architect

Location: UK wide and travel to our London office once a week so ideally candidates who are located that can travel to London within 2 hours.

At CGI, you’ll help shape the future of Banking & Financial Services by connecting ambitious business strategies with technology that delivers measurable results. As an Enterprise Solution Lead, you’ll work with senior clients and CGI teams to shape major transformation programmes, develop high-value solutions and provide the architectural leadership that turns strategy into successful delivery. You’ll have the ownership to influence our growth, the freedom to bring fresh thinking to complex industry challenges, and the backing of a collaborative community with deep banking and technology expertise. This is an opportunity to strengthen our architecture capability, help clients modernise and innovate, and make a lasting impact on CGI’s Banking & Financial Services business.

CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and has been named a UK ‘Best Employer’ by the Financial Times. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI Partner not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you’ll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We’ll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go.

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In this role, you will provide strategic solution and architecture leadership across CGI’s Banking & Financial Services business, working with sector leaders, account teams and clients to identify opportunities and turn business challenges into compelling transformation strategies. You will take ownership of shaping large-scale programmes, target architectures, technology roadmaps and business cases, bringing creative thinking to solutions that balance client outcomes, scalability and commercial viability.

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You will also help build and strengthen our Solution Architecture capability, developing standards, reusable assets and communities of practice while mentoring architecture talent. Supported by CGI’s wider community of industry and technology experts, you will provide architectural leadership across complex programmes, helping delivery teams manage risks and critical decisions while ensuring solutions remain aligned with clients’ strategic objectives.

  • Shape & Grow: Identify opportunities and shape strategic technology and transformation initiatives that support growth.
  • Advise & Influence: Engage senior client stakeholders to understand business priorities and translate them into effective technology strategies.
  • Architect & Innovate: Develop target architectures, transformation roadmaps and solutions for complex Banking & Financial Services challenges.
  • Lead & Deliver: Provide architecture leadership across major programmes, resolving complex technology challenges and supporting successful delivery.
  • Build & Develop: Establish and grow a high-performing Solution Architecture capability, mentoring colleagues and developing emerging talent.
  • Standardise & Scale: Define architecture standards, governance approaches and reusable assets that improve consistency and accelerate delivery.
  • Solution & Win: Lead solution development for strategic pursuits, bids and proposals, balancing innovation, commercial viability and client outcomes.

Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role

You will bring significant experience in enterprise or solution architecture within Banking & Financial Services, combined with the ability to operate confidently across strategy, business development and complex delivery. You should be comfortable engaging senior stakeholders, shaping major transformation initiatives and leading architecture teams or capabilities, with strong commercial awareness and the ability to turn complex requirements into practical, high-value solutions.

  • Extensive experience in Enterprise Architecture and/or Solution Architecture, ideally within Banking & Financial Services.
  • Strong understanding of banking technology, transformation and modernisation.
  • Proven ability to shape large-scale transformation programmes, target architectures and technology roadmaps.
  • Experience leading solution development for strategic bids, proposals or major client pursuits.
  • Strong senior stakeholder engagement, consulting and client advisory skills.
  • Proven ability to build, lead and develop architecture teams and capabilities.
  • Experience establishing architecture standards, governance, methods and reusable assets.
  • Strong commercial awareness with the ability to balance technology decisions, delivery considerations and business outcomes.
  • Ability to provide leadership across complex programmes and resolve significant architecture and technology challenges.

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  • You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.
  • Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
  • You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.
  • That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.

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