Solutions Architect - Collateral Management

Arcus Search; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcus Search is seeking a Solutions/Business Architect with deep Collateral Management domain experience to lead end-to-end architectural initiatives across enterprise delivery teams. You will synthesize business requirements with IT capabilities, ensuring compliant, scalable, and secure solutions.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product management, business analysts, and domain SMEs, with SAFe knowledge beneficial for large programs.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Collateral Management as a business or solution architect.
• Able to assimilate unfamiliar technologies quickly and converse with IT SMEs.
• Experience with large-scale Agile environments; SAFe knowledge beneficial.
• Proficient in event-driven, service-based architectures, microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with mainframe environments and cloud is advantageous.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to balance strategic and technical needs.

Responsibilities

• Architectural Leadership: Define and implement end-to-end architecture solutions for IT initiatives, ensuring they meet requirements.
• Collaboration: Work with requirement owners, domain architects, and IT engineers to build high-quality solutions.
• Integration: Bridge EA and IT delivery teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and domain target architectures.
• Community Contribution: Develop reusable solution patterns and participate in evolving architecture practices.
• Technical Competence: Apply knowledge to define domain target architectures and roadmaps for Collateral Management.
• Knowledge Sharing: Engage in communities of practice to share methodologies and lessons learned.

Skills

Architectural Leadership

Collaboration

Integration

Event-Driven / Microservices

Communication

Open Agile / TOGAF

Job description

Duration: 12 months (extensions confirmed for 3+ years)

Rate: Market Rate (Confident we can meet your expectations)

IR35 status: INSIDE IR35

Please only apply if you have experience working as a Solutions or Business Architect with specific knowledge and experience in the area of Collateral Management, we will not consider your candidacy otherwise.

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.
• Technical Competence: Apply knowledge of technology capabilities, functional architecture and delivery experience to define domain target architectures and roadmaps focused on the Collateral Management domain.
• Knowledge Sharing: Engage in communities of practice with other architects to share standard methodologies and lessons learned.

Profile Requirements

Experience:

• [Must] Extensive experience working in Collateral Management domain as a business or solution architect who is easily able to converse with business (product management, business analysts etc).
• [Must] Sufficient background in IT to be able to assimilate unfamiliar technologies quickly and apply to the end-2-end solution, converse with IT SMEs.
• Agile: Experience with large-scale agile projects, 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:

• Familiarity with Mainframe in general.
• Familiarity with Cloud also beneficial.
• 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 escape.
• 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 must.
• Financial Services: Experience in the Financial Services industry and a good understanding of Collateral Management processes and the related regulatory environments isa must.

This role offers the chance to define a significant impact on our IT landscape while working in a collaborative and innovative environment.