Domain Architect – Tech Trading | SEB, Solna

SEB; Parainen; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SEB in Finland seeks a Senior Domain Architect to shape Tech Trading architecture and enable secure, scalable transformation. You will lead a team of Solution Architects and collaborate with executives, regulators, and engineering teams.

You will translate business and regulatory priorities into actionable architectural decisions, drive modernization, and ensure resilience. The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on governance within a tech trading environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in architecture for business-critical environments.
• Deep knowledge of FX, Fixed Income, Commodities and Equities.
• Ability to transform stakeholder needs into architecture decisions.
• Proven track record in guiding modernization while preserving resilience.
• Strong communication and leadership across management to engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define, drive and continuously improve the Tech Trading target architecture and roadmap.
• Translate priorities into decisions across products, platforms and architecture.
• Drive modernization, integration and simplification while ensuring security and continuity.
• Lead architecture governance and portfolio-level dialogue.
• Contribute to SEB’s architecture community and enterprise architecture development.

Skills

Trading-domain knowledge

Architecture leadership

Solution architecture

Security & resilience

Cloud & data

Stakeholder management

Job description

SEB is more than a bank. We are a technology-driven financial institution where everything starts from our customer needs and business outcomes. AI, data and modern engineering are natural parts of how we work, build and deliver value. From core banking platforms to agentic AI, automation, cybersecurity and cloud, we offer a broad tech landscape and many paths to grow. Together, we are shaping secure, responsible, and future-proof solutions for our customers and society.

Are you a senior architect with strong trading-domain expertise who can turn complex stakeholder needs into clear direction and execution? We are looking for a Domain Architect to shape the technology direction for Tech Trading and enable secure, resilient and scalable transformation at SEB.

About the role

Tech Trading provides business-critical technology across the trading lifecycle, including pricing, execution, risk, position management, market data and regulatory requirements.

As Domain Architect, you will continuously develop and implement the Tech Trading target architecture, aligned with SEB’s enterprise architecture, principles and technical standards. With the customer as the primary stakeholder, you will balance business, regulatory and technology priorities, consolidate different interests in an actionable direction and stay ahead of relevant market and technology trends.

You will work closely with stakeholders across business and technology, from senior executives and regulators to engineering teams, partners and suppliers. You will be accountable for solution architecture in the domain, be part of the Tech Trading Leadership Team and drive strategic topics. You will also lead, empower and develop a team of Solution Architects with full line-management responsibility.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Define, drive and continuously improve the Tech Trading target architecture and roadmap, aligned with enterprise architecture and SEB principles.
• Translate customer, business, regulatory and technology priorities into clear decisions across products, platforms and solution architecture.
• Drive modernization, integration and simplification while ensuring security, resilience and operational continuity.
• Lead architecture governance and portfolio-level dialogue, steer significant initiatives and help teams apply the architecture in delivery.
• Contribute proactively to SEB’s architecture community and the further development of enterprise architecture.

To thrive in this role, we believe you have:

• Extensive experience from architecture work in complex, business-critical environments, combined with the ability to decide, execute and drive change.
• Deep trading-domain knowledge and practical experience within FX, Fixed Income, Commodities and Equities.
• Proven ability to lead technology transformation and modernize legacy landscapes without compromising resilience.
• Broad architecture competence across integration, data, cloud, cybersecurity and infrastructure.
• A strategic, customer-focused and empowering leadership style.
• Strong communication skills and fluent English, with the ability to align stakeholders from senior management to engineering teams.

Do you want to be part of SEB?

It is our fundamental belief that inclusion and diversity is crucial for our future success. We strive to have an inclusive, value-driven culture where employees feel valued, respected, and involved irrespective of who they are, what they believe or where they come from.

Please be aware that our final candidates undergo background checks, a process that includes for example identity control, verification of qualifications, credit checks, company engagements and history of crime. In some cases, we also apply random drug checks. During employment, employees within SEB can also expect to undergo recurring background checks.

SEB Sweden has a redeployment responsibility, which means that this position might be covered by internal redeployment.