Core Banking SME (SOPRA)

On behalf of National Savings & Investments, we are looking for a Core Banking SME (SOPRA) (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract based hybrid in London, Lytham St Annes, Glasgow or Durham.

NS&I is one of the largest savings organisations in the UK with more than 24 million customers and over £218 billion invested. We are both a government department and an Executive Agency of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Our origins can be traced back more than 150 years to 1861.

A small company with a big reach. We care for colleagues, respect one another, invest in our people and manage talent effectively.

This role is subject to Baseline Personnel Security Standard and financial credit checks.

As a Core Banking SME (SOPRA), your main responsibilities will be:
. Review, challenge, and steer decisions on banking platform, SOPRA/SBS.
. Ensure commercial and technical scrutiny of banking agents and products.
. Configure banking engine and understand product functionality.
. Drive digital, cloud, and AI integration strategies within core banking remit, with strong emphasis on event driven architecture and AWS aligned delivery.
. Act as the internal "voice of SBS/SOPRA", ensuring alignment between business expectations and core banking product capabilities.

Essential:
. Deep core banking expertise, ideally SBS/SOPRA.
. Industry experience with banking platforms and products.
. Ability to influence suppliers and stakeholders, as well as critique and challenge suppliers on products created.
. Banking engineer level expertise.
. Experience in Fintech role.
. Core banking implementation.
. Legacy system conversion.
. Hands on understanding of event based architectures and modern cloud native integration patterns (AWS preferred).
. Evidence of delivery focus with end to end build/test/release ownership.

Desirable:

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, NS&I guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".