Associate Consulting Director

Virtusa; Toronto; On-site; CAD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Virtusa is seeking a Banking SME/thought leader for US & Canada with 10+ years in banking. You will guide complex implementations across Lending, Payments, and capital markets, work with fintechs, APIs and microservices, and influence platform modernization.

Strong leadership and architecture skills are essential. You will engage with product and development teams, drive strategic growth, and stay ahead of trends like AI/ML and new payment methods.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of banking domain experience at leadership level.
• Hands-on knowledge across Lending, Payments, Core banking, Treasury, Wealth or Capital markets.
• Experience with digital implementations, platform modernization and product design.
• Experience with leading COTS banking products and integration projects.
• Familiarity with fintechs, API/microservices, and agile methods.
• Knowledge of SWIFT, ISO 20022 and MT formats.
• Open API implementations and cloud-based solutions experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead banking domain thought leadership across US & Canada.
• Drive market knowledge, communication, team management and business development.
• Implement and configure leading COTS products and platforms.
• Collaborate with product and development teams; define architecture roadmaps.
• Explore AI/ML, tokenization, blockchain and new payments trends.
• Support practice growth and capability development in solutions and resources.

Skills

Banking domain knowledge

Lending

Payments

Core banking

Treasury

Wealth management

Capital markets

Digital implementations

Platform modernization

Product implementation

COTS product suites

Loan IQ

FIS MBP

Finestra

IBM FTM

Dovetail

Bottomline

Fiserv payment engine

API & microservices

Agile methodologies

DDD/BDD

Tokenization

Blockchain

Crypto/NFT/AI & ML in fraud

Entrepreneurial mindset

Solution accelerators/MVP

Interpersonal/communication

Cloud technologies

SWIFT/ISO20022

Education

Post graduate MBA Finance & IT

Tools

Loan IQ

FIS MBP

Finestra Product Suite

IBM FTM

Dovetail

Bottomline

Fiserv payment engine

CGI products

Open APIs

Cloud based apps & solutions

Job description

Title Banking SME/ Thought leader – US & Canada

Exact Job Location

USA- NY, NJ,

Willing to travel 25-50% of the time

Educational Qualification

Graduation, preferably - Post graduation, MBA Finance & IT

Experience Range ( Total years and Minimum Relevant Years for the Position )

10+ Years

Job Description

What candidates should have in terms of: Knowledge of job, Market knowledge, Communication skills, Team Management, Business Development

• Banking Industry thought leader with at least 10+ years of

Experience

• Hands on knowledge across, Lending, Payments, Core

banking, Treasury, Wealth or Capital markets solutions

• Worked on complex implementations across Digital

engineering, Platform modernization, Product implementation and design.

• Strong Experience in implemented and configured any of the

leading COTS products, - Loan IQ, FIS MBP, Finestra Product Suite, IBM FTM, Dovetail, Bottomline, Fiserv payment engine, CGI products,

• Experience in working with Fintech’s, API & microservices,

Agile Methodology, and using domain drive methodologies DDD, BDD

• Experience in emerging payments methods and trends like

tokenization, block chain, Cypto, NFT, AI & ML in fraud etc.

• Willing to support both business development (Practice Growth) and Capability development (Solutions, resources)

Has entrepreneur spirit with ability to adopt & adjust quickly to grow the fast-changing payments environment.

• Ability to innovate and rapidly build solution accelerators, MVP & frameworks to drive nonlinear growth.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to develop

and maintain effective relationships with product team, development team and the management team.

• Aware of technology trends like AI/ML, robotics, cloud etc and

its Impact to banking operations

• Analyzes information from varying perspectives, establishes

the pivotal element of an issue and reaches a logical conclusion through the process.

• Defining enterprise blue prints & architecture roadmaps.
• SWIFT Standards: Knowledge of SWIFT architecture, messaging middleware design and ISO 20022 and MT 2 message formats.

Hand on experience in implementing Open API’s, Opens Sources tools& cloud based application & solutions.