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Now we provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities and operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca.\nOur tech capabilities remain the core of our business, with more than 1800 colleagues active in Data and Analytics Tech, Tech Foundation and Channels, Retail Core Banking and Architecture, and Global Products and Technology Services.\nWe enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged.\nFor us, impact isn't a perk. It's the driver of our work. We are guided and rewarded by a shared desire to make the world a better place, one innovative solution at a time. Our colleagues make it their job to do impactful things and they love doing it in good company. Do you?\nHere’s a sneak peak of what our colleagues say about working within ING Hubs Romania:\nAt ING, we're building the solutions of tomorrow, today | 80% of our colleagues in Romania agree\nThe Mission\nAs a Solution Architect in Financial Market’s IPA Pricing Engines & Post-processing area, you enhance the design and implementation quality of our main pricing and valuation engines that we are using. You do this by optimizing technology infrastructure, operational efficiency, scalability and reliability but also having a trained eye on the security aspects. Your role is crucial in ensuring seamless alignment between design, implementation, business objectives, and architectural principles.\nYour day to day\nAs a Solution Architect you will be part of the Wholesale Baking Centre of Excellence (COE) Architecture. You translate business vision and enterprise architecture into effective solution designs by acting as a strong partner to the engineering and product teams in Financial Market & Group Treasury Pricing area. You execute the global Business & IT Roadmap process, with centralized designs and (logical) global decompositions, analyses market- and IT-trends and, based on this information, contributing to the strategy of the organization.\nRoles and Responsibilities\nAct as the liaison between Domain Architects and DevOps teams. \nUnderstand business context, needs, rules, architecture, organizational structure, culture, capabilities, and processes. \nDocument \"as-is\" and \"to-be\" processes and designs, outlining necessary changes for migration (e.g., roadmaps, migration plans). \nOrganize and support DevOps and Quants team workshops and presentations to facilitate design and decision-making (e.g., Architecture Content Meetings, Architecture Review Meetings). \nDesign and develop POC’s which are used to confirm assumptions and are easily transferable into MVP’s by the engineering teams\nCoaching engineers on ING standards and working with them to validate new architectural decisions\nApply 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