Solutions Architect
About the job Solutions Architect
Job Description :
- This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the largest global investment management firms. The company is currently on a digital transformation journey and require a talented individual to take responsibility for a number of end-to-end technology solutions to deliver strategic business outcomes.
- As a Solution Architect you will be joining a motivated team of professionals working to architect solutions for entire breath of the firm, including Portfolio Managers, Analysts, Quants, Marketing, Compliance and Operations.
You will gain exposure to a variety of partners at all levels, from Senior Technology leaders to Senior Business partners.
- The candidate will be required to put forward roadmaps and designs for an all-encompassing vision for target state technology solutions for the initiatives, and work with several engineering teams spanning multiple technologies to ensure its implementation.
- The candidate must be able to identify and resolve issues that are creating inefficiencies or hindering progress proactively.
Responsibilities : Design Ownership
Design Ownership
- Producing and owning the end-to-end design of the solution spanning multiple software components (evidencing at all points how the design answers the requirements - clear traceability)
- Working with engineering teams to ensure detailed component-level design responds to the end-to-end design
- Working with the Senior Architects to ensure that data and functional architectures adhere to the high-level architecture principles and support target state vision for the enterprise
- Working with the IT Infrastructure implementation team to make sure that planned infrastructure adequately supports the software components of the solution
Requirements
Working closely with Business stakeholders, Product Managers / Owners and Business Analysts to help translate desired business outcomes into robust system requirements, both functional and non-functional
Development & Testing :
- Facilitate and participate in detailed design reviews and ensure that all components of the solution are aligned to the target state vision
- Working with the testing team to support the definition and implementation of the testing strategy for the initiative
Software Delivery
- Working with component developers to elicit, validate and refine estimates for developing the software components
- Planning and coordination of deployment activities across multiple technology platforms
- Overall accountability for delivering technology change is shared with IT project managers
Qualifications :
- 7-10 years' experience in Finance - Investment Management sector.
- Substantial experience in software / application development with progressively increasing responsibilities and long-term engagements with employers
- Experience working on investment management front office systems including portfolio management systems, OMS & trading platforms
- Understanding of IBOR & ABOR fundamentals
- Experience of the Charles River (CRIMS) product and interfaces
- Track record of designing and delivering solution architecture for data-intensive initiatives spanning multiple technologies, delivered over the course of 2-3 years, and budgeted above $5m
- Experience of large transformational projects with multi-year system migration planning
- Experience implementing and integrating 3rd party packages as part of technology solutions
- Experience with Agile delivery methodologies; working knowledge of the SAFe framework would be a plus
- Practical understanding and experience of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD)
Specialist knowledge / skills :
- Excellent understanding and practical experience of defining, designing and implementing Microservices in an enterprise environment
- Excellent understanding and practical experience of cloud technologies, including PaaS, container platforms (Docker and Kubernetes), Serverless, etc.
Experience with Red Hat Openshift and AWS of significant benefit
- Knowledge of enterprise messaging technologies with experience of Kafka
- Knowledge of UX / UI design and technologies
- In addition, it would be a plus to have exposure to :
- Big Data technology stacks, such as native AWS and / or Cloudera CDH / CDP
- Data management and data quality tools
Competence / Characteristics :
- Self-starter
- Visual thinker able to communicate effectively with diagrams
- Good facilitation skills, ability to broker an agreement on a contentious issue
- Proactive, 'can learn' / 'can do' attitude
- Team & business focused
- Good attention to detail
- Intellectual honesty
Experience level : Mid-senior
Experience required : 10 Years
Education level : Bachelor's degree
Job function : Information Technology
Industry : Financial Services
Total position : 1
Relocation assistance : No
Visa : Only US citizens and Greencard holders