Temenos Configuration Specialist - Securities

Capco; Zürich; On-site; CHF 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Capco in Switzerland is seeking a Temenos Configuration Specialist - Securities to deliver a complex core banking and securities transformation for a leading Swiss financial institution.

You will focus on configuring Temenos Securities, integrating with front-office platforms, custodians, and data providers, and supporting testing, release, and go-live activities in a hybrid or on-site delivery model.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of experience in banking technology, securities operations, wealth management, or core banking transformation.
• Strong functional knowledge of the securities lifecycle including trade processing, settlement, positions, custody, and asset servicing.
• Proven ability to configure and troubleshoot Temenos Securities products and parameters."
• Working knowledge of APIs, interface data integration, reconciliation, and batch processing; SQL is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Configure securities products, processing parameters, and asset-servicing within Temenos Securities.
• Translate requirements into functional designs, configurations, and implementation-ready solutions.
• Perform fit-gap analyses and promote configuration-first approaches.
• Support end-to-end securities processing across trade capture, settlement, and custody.
• Coordinate with Temenos, custodians, and data providers on interfaces and data flows.

Skills

Temenos

Securities

Banking tech

ISO 20022

SWIFT

Agile

Documentation

Tools

Temenos Securities

Core/Transact

SQL

APIs

Job description

Joining Capco means becoming part of an innovative and dynamic consultancy firm, committed to fostering an inclusive environment where you are encouraged to #BeYourselfAtWork. We embrace individuality as a key factor in promoting diversity and inclusion, values that sit at the core of our success. We aim to attract a wide variety of talented professionals with different skills and experiences. If you require any adjustments to support your application process, please feel free to inform us at any stage.

ABOUT CAPCO

Capco is a global technology and business consultancy that is passionate about supporting clients in the financial services sector to grow and succeed in today's ever-changing world. We are:

• Experts in banking, capital markets, payments and asset and wealth management.
• Trusted advisors in core banking, securities and wealth management transformation, regulatory change, risk management and technology modernization.
• A company dedicated to continuous development and excited to welcome top talent to help us drive innovation and deliver lasting results.
• A business built on agility, collaboration, and entrepreneurial spirit.

THE ROLE

As a Temenos Configuration Specialist - Securities, you will play a key role in delivering a complex core banking and securities transformation for a leading Swiss financial institution. You will focus on the functional configuration, integration, testing, and deployment of Temenos Securities and related Temenos Core / Transact capabilities. Working across securities operations, business analysis, architecture, and technology, you will translate business requirements into robust configuration solutions supporting highly automated front-to-back trade processing, settlement, position management, custody, and asset servicing.

YOUR CAPCO DAY

• Configure securities products, instrument and processing parameters, transaction rules, settlement instructions, fees and commissions, custody and position settings, exception handling, and asset-servicing parameters within Temenos Securities.
• Translate business and operational requirements into functional designs, configuration workbooks, parameter specifications, and implementation-ready solutions aligned with the target architecture and Temenos standards.
• Perform fit-gap and impact analyses, promoting configuration-first solutions and identifying where controlled extensions, interfaces, or data changes are required.
• Support end-to-end securities processing across order and trade capture, confirmation, settlement, position maintenance, custody, income events, corporate actions, and related cash movements for multiple asset classes.
• Apply strong knowledge of equities, fixed income, funds, ETFs, and structured products, together with post-trade standards and market practices including SWIFT, ISO 20022, settlement status handling, and straight-through processing.
• Collaborate with architects and integration teams on interfaces between Temenos and front-office platforms, brokers and trading venues, custodians and CSDs, market and reference data providers, payments, compliance controls, general ledger, and reconciliation platforms
• Define and review functional test scenarios and acceptance criteria, and provide hands‑on support during system integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, and end-to-end securities lifecycle validation.
• Analyse defects and production‑like issues, trace configuration, reference‑data, position, and transaction‑flow root causes, coordinate remediation with functional and technical teams, and validate fixes through structured retesting.
• Support configuration promotion, release preparation, migration and cutover activities, go‑live readiness, hypercare, and the creation of operational runbooks and support documentation.
• Facilitate workshops with securities operations, product owners, portfolio and investment teams, business analysts, architects, developers, testers, finance, and control functions to clarify requirements and resolve design decisions.
• Coordinate closely with Temenos, implementation partners, custodians, market‑data providers, and internal delivery teams, managing configuration dependencies and ensuring consistency across environments and related workstreams.
• Contribute to configuration governance, documentation standards, knowledge transfer, and capability building so that securities solutions remain maintainable after implementation.

YOUR CAPCO FIT

• At least 7 years of experience in banking technology, securities operations, wealth management, or core banking transformation, including substantial hands‑on responsibility for configuration and implementation activities.
• At least 4 years of practical experience with Temenos, ideally including Temenos Securities and Temenos Core / Transact, with participation in at least two implementation, upgrade, or major transformation programmes.
• Strong functional knowledge of the securities lifecycle, including trade processing, settlement, positions, custody, and asset servicing, preferably in private‑banking, wealth‑management, or securities‑services environments.
• Proven ability to configure and troubleshoot Temenos Securities products and parameters across transaction processing, settlement, positions, custody, fees and commissions, exceptions, and asset‑servicing processes.
• Strong understanding of multi‑asset securities processing, corporate actions, income events, settlement and custody concepts, SWIFT and ISO 20022 messaging, static and reference data, and straight‑through processing.
• Working knowledge of APIs, message and file interfaces, market and reference data integration, reconciliation, accounting integration, and batch processing; SQL or comparable data‑analysis skills are an advantage.
• Demonstrated experience working in complex banking or wealth‑management programmes with multiple business, technology, vendor, custodian, and implementation‑partner stakeholders.
• Structured problem‑solving skills and the ability to translate complex securities requirements into practical, testable, and maintainable Temenos configurations.
• Comfortable working in agile or hybrid delivery environments, taking ownership of deliverables from requirements and design through testing, release, and post‑go‑live stabilization.
• Professional fluency in English (C1 level or equivalent), including the ability to produce clear functional and technical documentation.
• German proficiency at B2 level or higher is strongly preferred for client‑facing collaboration in Switzerland.