Asset Servicing Solution Architect

Euroclear; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Euroclear seeks a senior Solution Architect to define end-to-end architecture for IT initiatives, ensuring alignment with security, compliance and enterprise standards. You will collaborate with domain architects and IT engineers to deliver high-quality solutions in asset servicing.

The role requires extensive experience in enterprise architecture, agile delivery, and strong communication skills to influence senior stakeholders across locations.

Qualifications

• Extensive IT industry experience with solution architecture on large-scale transformation projects.
• Experience with Agile and DevOps, including CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Architectural Leadership: define and implement end-to-end architecture solutions.

Skills

Solution architecture leadership

Large-scale transformation experience

Analytical thinking

Communication

Autonomy

Strategic & technical balance

Problem solving

Industry knowledge

Tools

Java

Linux

OpenShift

Azure Cloud

Angular

REST APIs

Job description

Job Description

• 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.

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 upscale.
• 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.