Asset Servicing Solution Architect
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.