IT Domain Architect - Trading

Alpiq; Bezirk Olten; On-site; CHF 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpiq invites an IT Domain Architect to own the architectural vision for its Energy Trading systems. You will steer front, middle and back office platforms toward a cohesive target landscape, ensuring security, scalability and regulatory alignment.

You will collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to shape roadmaps, govern architecture decisions and guardrails across trading, risk and settlement domains.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent hands-on experience in IT or related field.
• Track record in enterprise, domain or solution architecture, preferably within energy trading or financial markets.
• Solid grasp of trade lifecycle and ETRM/CTRM systems with platforms such as Murex, Endur or Orchestrade.
• Strong solution and data architecture skills with security know-how in real-time, data-intensive environments.
• Ability to turn business strategy and regulation into a clear IT target landscape and guardrails.
• Experience with architecture governance, design reviews and lifecycle management.
• Experience with Enterprise Integration Patterns and Event Driven Architectures; data-centric platforms Foundry or Databricks.
• Ability to collaborate across internal delivery teams, external service providers and vendors.
• Excellent stakeholder-management and analytical capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Define, own and evolve the IT target landscape for the Trading Division and drive the transformation.
• Maintain a living view of trading landscape and translate gaps into a pragmatic roadmap.
• Shape solution designs across front, middle and back office for ETRM/risk platforms.
• Be the architecture partner for projects, setting standards and guardrails for ETRM, risk, data and settlement platforms.
• Review architectural impact, risks and debt before changes go live with emphasis on data integrity and latency.
• Steer architecture governance, design authority reviews and roadmap planning.
• Ensure REMIT, EMIR, MiFID II considerations are embedded from the start.
• Promote standardisation and cost optimisation while balancing value and security.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

ETRM/CTRM systems

Data architecture

Security

Regulatory reporting knowledge

Stakeholder management

Event Driven Architecture

Foundry

Databricks

Education

Degree in Information Technology/Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Murex

Endur

Orchestrade

Foundry

Databricks

Job description

IT Domain Architect - Trading

Energy markets are being reshaped in real time - and the technology behind trading sits right at the heart of it. As IT Domain Architect for Energy Trading, you will own the architectural vision for the systems that power Alpiq's Trading Division, and turn today's landscape into the target landscape of tomorrow.

You will define that target together with business and IT stakeholders, then steer our applications, integrations and data towards it - making sure every solution is fit for purpose, secure by design, scalable and genuinely aligned with how our trading and risk teams work. Spanning front, middle and back office across the full trade lifecycle, this is a role with real ownership, high visibility and the mandate to shape where we go next.

Your accountabilities

• Define, own and continuously evolve the IT target landscape for the Trading Division - and drive the transformation that gets us there, hand in hand with business and IT.
• Keep a clear, living view of our trading landscape - trading, position and risk management, market data, pricing, settlement and regulatory reporting - and turn the gap to target into a pragmatic, prioritised roadmap.
• Shape solution designs across the trade lifecycle (front, middle and back office), balancing business needs, IT strategy, security, integration principles and operational reality.
• Be the go-to architecture partner for projects, product teams, vendors and system integrators, setting clear standards and guardrails for our ETRM, risk, market-data and settlement platforms.
• Safeguard quality where it matters most - reviewing architectural impact, risks, dependencies and technicaldesign debt before major changes go live, with a sharp eye on data integrity, latency, resilience and auditability.
• Help steer architecture governance, design authority reviews, roadmap planning, portfolio priorities and make-or-buy decisions for the division.
• Make sure trading regulation (REMIT, EMIR, MiFID II) is designed into the landscape from the start, rather than bolted on later.
• Champion standardisation, simplification, application reduction and modernisation - always weighing business value, security, sustainability, quality and cost

Your profile

• A degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Financial Engineering or a related field - or equivalent hands-on experience.
• A track record in enterprise, domain or solution architecture, ideally within energy trading, commodities or financial markets.
• A solid grasp of the trade lifecycle and ETRM/CTRM systems (trading, position and risk management, market data, pricing, settlement and regulatory reporting) and platforms such as Murex, Endur or Orchestrade.
• Strong solution and integration architecture skills, plus data architecture and security know-how in real-time, data-intensive environments.
• The ability to turn business strategy, trading needs and regulation into a clear IT target landscape, solution designs and technology guardrails.
• Experience with architecture governance, design reviews, lifecycle and technical-debt management, and confident technology decision-making.
• Experience with Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP), Event Driven Architectures and with data centrics platforms such as Foundry or Databricks
• Ease working across internal delivery teams and external service providers, system integrators and platform vendors.
• Excellent stakeholder-management, facilitation, communication and influencing skills, with a structured, analytical and business-minded approach.

The Impact You’ll Have

This is where our value "Create value" comes to life. The decisions you make ensure the Trading Division's technology investments deliver real, lasting business outcomes and support Alpiq's long-term strategic direction.

Because you define the target landscape with the business and steer us towards it, you strike the right balance between innovation and risk, ambition and operational excellence. You will be a trusted sparring partner to trading, risk and IT - the person who translates bold ambitions and regulatory demands into architecture and technology decisions that make future growth and transformation possible.

Who You’ll Work With

• Trading, Portfolio Management and Risk teams across front, middle and back office
• Enterprise Architecture and the Design Authority
• Business Relationship Managers, Product Owners and Demand Managers
• Project Managers, Delivery Leads, Solution Architects and technical experts
• Security, Data, Integration, Infrastructure, Operations and Service Management
• ETRM platform vendors, system integrators and external partners
• Portfolio, Governance, Risk, Compliance and Finance stakeholders

What Success Looks Like

• A clear, shared IT target landscape for the Trading Division exists - and the estate is visibly moving towards it.
• Solutions are aligned with business outcomes, enterprise architecture standards, security and regulatory requirements.
• Architecture decisions are transparent, well-documented, their context and lineage is tracked in Architecture Desciion Records and applied consistently across projects, products and suppliers.
• Risks, dependencies, exceptions, lifecycle impacts and technical debt are spotted and managed early.
• Roadmaps drive modernisation, simplification, application reduction and cost optimisation.
• Trading, risk and delivery teams receive clear, timely and practical guidance that accelerates quality delivery and business value.

Ready to help shape the future of energy trading at Alpiq? We'd love to meet you.

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