Front Office Architect: Investment Tech & AI Innovation

DW Search; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

DW Search is partnering with a leading global asset manager to hire a Front Office Architect to shape the technology supporting its investment teams.

The role sits between investment business and Technology, spanning investment research, portfolio construction, order generation and trading, and working closely with investment teams, Business Analysts, Engineers and other Architects to align initiatives with the platform strategy.

Qualifications

• Translate front-office investment requirements into technology and architecture direction.
• Help define the target architecture and technology roadmap across the investment platform.
• Assess existing applications and capabilities, identifying where technology should be invested in, modernised, consolidated or retired.
• Determine where proprietary technology provides genuine investment differentiation versus where established platforms should be leveraged.
• Work across research, portfolio construction, order generation and trading to ensure technology decisions consider the wider investment lifecycle.
• Identify opportunities to reduce duplication and build capabilities that can be reused and scaled across investment teams.
• Work with Domain Architects, Principal Engineers and engineering teams to shape detailed solution designs and delivery.
• Provide technical challenge around areas such as APIs, event-driven architecture, cloud, data and integration, ensuring architecture choices are driven by the requirements of the solution.
• Help shape the adoption of AI and agentic technology within investment workflows, particularly across investment research.
• Balance immediate business requirements with longer-term platform strategy, scalability and simplification.

Responsibilities

• Translate front-office investment requirements into technology and architecture direction.
• Help define the target architecture and technology roadmap across the investment platform.
• Assess existing applications and capabilities, identifying where technology should be invested in, modernised, consolidated or retired.
• Determine where proprietary technology provides genuine investment differentiation versus where established platforms should be leveraged.
• Work across research, portfolio construction, order generation and trading to ensure technology decisions consider the wider investment lifecycle.
• Identify opportunities to reduce duplication and build capabilities that can be reused and scaled across investment teams.
• Work with Domain Architects, Principal Engineers and engineering teams to shape detailed solution designs and delivery.
• Provide technical challenge around areas such as APIs, event-driven architecture, cloud, data and integration, ensuring architecture choices are driven by the requirements of the solution.
• Help shape the adoption of AI and agentic technology within investment workflows, particularly across investment research.
• Balance immediate business requirements with longer-term platform strategy, scalability and simplification.

Skills

Front Office Architecture

Asset/Investment Management

APIs

Cloud

Data Platforms

Stakeholder Management

AI in Investment Research

Job description

DW Search is partnering with a leading global asset manager to hire a Front Office Architect to shape the technology supporting its investment teams.

The role sits between investment business and Technology, spanning investment research, portfolio construction, order generation and trading, and working closely with investment teams, Business Analysts, Engineers and other Architects to align initiatives with the platform strategy.