Partner - Core Banking Transformation (m/f/d)

SAP Fioneer; Deutschland; On-site; EUR 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Occupational pension provisions

Health and wellbeing support

Bike leasing and mobility options

Celebration rewards

Meal programs

Jubilee recognition

Relocation reimbursement

Job summary

SAP Fioneer is seeking a Partner - Banking Transformation to shape transformation-ready solution designs and delivery programmes for large financial institutions. This hands-on role blends presales leadership with delivery experience to ensure feasible roadmaps and architectures grounded in operational reality.

You will lead presales engagements, translate banking requirements into executable transformation paths, advise on risks and dependencies, and act as a trusted advisor to C-level leaders

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in consultancies, professional services, and/or software with a banking focus.
• Experience in corporate banking, global transaction banking, cash management, and payments.
• Proven ability to shape or lead large-scale transformation programs.
• Ability to translate complex banking landscapes into executable concepts.
• Strong commercial mindset to support complex presales pursuits.

Responsibilities

• Lead presales engagements to design feasible, executable transformation visions and roadmaps.
• Translate complex banking requirements into realistic transformation paths covering operating models and architecture.
• Advise clients on transformation readiness, risks, dependencies, and change implications.
• Serve as trusted advisor to C-level leaders where technology-driven modernization intersects with change.
• Shape multi-year transformation roadmaps for payments, core banking, and cash management.
• Lead and participate in co-design sessions, architecture workshops, and partner orchestration.
• Demonstrate credibility by mapping transformation scaling, migration strategies, and integration patterns.
• Identify and mitigate key risks early to support successful client outcomes.

Skills

Banking transformation

Presales leadership

Roadmap design

Stakeholder management

Architecture workshops

Change management

C-level communication

Tools

SAP

Job description

Innovation is at the heart of SAP Fioneer. With deep institutional knowledge and a strong technology foundation, SAP Fioneer delivers banking platforms that drive modernization and transformation across financial institutions globally.

As a Partner - Banking Transformation, you play a critical role in shaping transformation-ready solution designs and delivery programmes for large financial institutions. This position requires hands-on transformation and programme experience - bringing the credibility to understand complexity, delivery risks, and how large-scale modernization truly unfolds.

You operate largely in presales, but your delivery background empowers you to shape feasible roadmaps, assess client readiness, and ensure solution designs are grounded in operational reality. This makes you the key interface for banks transforming payments, core banking, cash management, global transaction banking, and surrounding processes.

Your Role:

• Lead presales engagements where deep understanding of bank transformation is required to design feasible, executable solution visions and delivery roadmaps.
• Translate complex banking requirements into realistic transformation paths - covering operating models, data, processes, regulatory constraints, and platform architecture.
• Advise clients on transformation readiness, risks, dependencies, and change implications.
• Act as a trusted advisor to C-level leaders, particularly where technology-driven modernization intersects with operational change.
• Shape multi-year transformation roadmaps for payments, core banking, cash management functions.
• Lead and participate in co-design sessions, architecture workshops, and partner orchestration.
• Bring credibility by understanding how transformation actually scales - from implementations to migration strategies, process harmonisation and integration patterns.
• Identify and mitigate key risks early in the presales lifecycle to support successful client outcomes.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in consultancies, professional services, and/or software companies, with a strong focus on banking technology, e.g., core banking
• Experience in corporate banking, in particular global transaction banking, cash management, and payments
• Proven experience shaping or leading large-scale transformation programs (implementation/modernization)
• Ability to translate complex banking landscapes into executable transformation concepts
• Strong commercial mindset with ability to support complex presales pursuits
• Experience with SAP products is a strong plus

Benefits

• occupational pension provisions
• support for health and wellbeing
• various mobility options like bike leasing and transportation allowances
• celebration rewards
• meal programs
• jubilee recognition
• relocation reimbursement