Asset Servicing Solution Architect

Location: United Kingdom

Role Responsibilities

• Architectural Leadership: Define and implement end-to-end architecture solutions for IT initiatives, ensuring they meet functional, non-functional, and security requirements.

• Collaboration: Work with requirement owners, domain architects, and IT engineers to build high-quality solutions.

• Integration: Bridge the gap between Enterprise Architecture and IT delivery teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and domain target architectures.

• Community Contribution: Develop reusable solution patterns and building blocks and actively participate in the evolution of Solution Architecture and Software Engineering practices.

• Technology Expertise: Apply hands-on technology and delivery experience to define domain target architectures and roadmaps focussed on the Asset Servicing domain.

• Knowledge Sharing: Engage in communities of practice with other architects to share standard methodologies and lessons learned.

 

Profile Requirements

• Experience: Extensive experience in the IT industry, particularly as a solution architect on large-scale transformation projects.

• Agile and DevOps: Experience with large-scale agile projects and DevOps practices, including CI/CD. Knowledge of agile working at scale and methods such as Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) would be beneficial.

• Architectural Skills: Proficiency in Event Driven and Service-based architectures, microservices, and RESTful APIs.

• Technical Knowledge: 

  • Experience in Java/Linux/Openshift or Mainframe Tandem and Azure Cloud

  • Familiarity with integration and data technologies, and experience with JavaScript front-end frameworks like Angular is advantageous.

• Complex Problem Solving: Ability to handle complex systems and problems across functions, locations, and organizations.

• Autonomy: Capable of conducting architectural analysis and providing pragmatic suggestions with minimal mentorship and know when to escalate.

• Strategic and Technical Balance: Ability to work on high-level strategic documents and zoom in on technical implementation challenges.

• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical abilities to break down complex problems and provide actionable solutions.

• Pragmatism: Focus on delivering fit-for-purpose results using a pragmatic approach.

• Innovation and Change: Identify the need for change and propose innovative solutions to improve IT delivery processes.

• Communication: Strong communication skills to advocate for architectural recommendations to project teams and senior management.

• Relationship Management: Ability to build positive relationships.

• Industry Knowledge: Knowledge of post-trade market infrastructures and Enterprise Architecture frameworks (e.g. Open Agile Architecture or TOGAF) is a plus.

• Financial Services: Experience in the Financial Services industry and a good understanding of Asset Servicing processes and the related regulatory environments is beneficial.

• Language Skills: Proficiency in English is required.

• This role offers the chance to define a significant impact on Euroclear's IT landscape while working in a collaborative and innovative environment.

 

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The Group Business Solutions (GBS) division at Euroclear is committed to maintaining our competitive edge by delivering reliable and sustainable IT solutions for the financial securities markets. Our technical teams are responsible for developing new IT solutions and improving existing applications for both internal and external clients. We ensure that changes are deployed into the production environment in a controlled and structured manner to maintain production stability. Within GBS, you will join the Solutions Architecture team in the Software Engineering Tribe. Here, you will play a crucial role in defining the target architecture and designing end-to-end solutions for initiatives across various GBS domains with a focus on our Asset Servicing domain and actively participate in the evolution of the Solution Architecture Practice.