Senior IT System Architect - CIAM

Euroclear; Town of Belgium (WI); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and comprehensive b

Hybrid working model

International environment

Job summary

Euroclear is seeking a System Architect to lead the design and governance of CIAM architectures, aligning with our enterprise standards. You will drive end-to-end architecture across onboarding, authentication, authorization, and lifecycle streams, ensuring scalable integration with Euroclear initiatives.

Responsibilities include translating business needs into structured architecture specifications, producing governance materials, and collaborating with delivery leaders and stakeholders across

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of business operations, information landscape, platforms and infrastructure.
• Ability to map business requirements to structured architecture, data, and technology specifications.
• Experience translating IT strategy into operational plans and roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Embrace and drive the enterprise architecture direction and standards for CIAM platforms.
• Design IT architecture solutions aligned with enterprise direction to solve business problems.
• Act as transversal System Architect across CIAM streams (onboarding, authentication, authorization, lifecycle).
• Assess compatibility and integration of products to ensure unified architecture across technologies.
• Produce executive-ready governance materials (status, risks, decisions).
• Collaborate with Program Delivery Lead and cross-functional teams to enable scalable integration.

Skills

System Architecture

Enterprise Architecture

CIAM

Stakeholder Management

Architecture Governance

Tools

TOGAF

Cloud Architecture

Job description

Embrace the enterprise architecture direction and standards. Design and develop IT architecture solutions (integrated process, applications, data, and technology) to business problems in alignment with the enterprise architecture direction and standards.

• Develop specifications for new products/services around the PING product, applications, and service offerings for CIAM processes.
• Work closely with the Program Delivery Lead and be part of the IT program transversal team.
• Act as a transversal System Architect across CIAM streams (onboarding, authentication, authorization, lifecycle).
• Assess the compatibility and integration of products/services proposed as standards in order to ensure an integrated architecture across interdependent technologies.
• Design architecture to support the end-to-end strategy of the CIAM platform based on the PING product.
• Support the technical transversal architecture to enable efficient and scalable integration with other Euroclear initiatives.
• Evaluate new IT developments and evolving business requirements and recommend appropriate system alternatives and/or enhancements to current systems.
• Perform technical planning, architecture development, and modification of specifications.
• Bridge business, security, architecture, and engineering with clear, actionable requirements.
• Produce concise, executive-ready materials for governance (e.g., status, risks, decisions).
• Contribute actively to the System Architect Community of Practice, driving continuous improvement in ways of working to enhance delivery effectiveness and consistency across teams.

Key Requirements:

• The role requires extensive knowledge of company business operations, information landscape, application platforms and technical infrastructure, strong analytical capability, a thorough understanding of the system development and implementation process, and the interpersonal skills to build alignment around identified strategies and proposed architecture solutions.
• Understands long-term business needs and identifies the relevant technical, data, and application architectures required to meet these needs.
• Responsible for understanding and assessing a client’s business operations, identifying challenges and opportunities, and recommending appropriate solutions. Ensures proper translation of business requirements into a set of structured business process, knowledge, technology, and organization specifications that satisfy the client’s strategic and operational objectives.
• Is able to develop business cases and perform impact analysis, engaging a wide range of stakeholders across business and IT.
• Decision-making involves the use of judgment, with an emphasis on the development of new or improved standards and on the translation of IT strategies into operational plans.
• Works with systems of varying levels of complexity, which can typically span across functional and location boundaries. Is able to navigate change and uncertainty in existing business processes, strategies, and frameworks.
• Contributes to the improvement of IT architecture processes, including blueprint (future-state) definition, architecture guideline definition, and project definition.
• Provides guidance and advice on architecture solutions for projects to senior IT Organization Management, IT Project Management, and Application Development stakeholders.

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About Us

Embark on your new adventure at Euroclear, and work at the heart of the global capital markets. We connect over 2,000 financial institutions across the globe. As an open and resilient infrastructure, we contribute to the stability of the financial markets. We help clients cut through complexity, lower costs, and mitigate risks of financial transactions. At Euroclear, we have the clear ambition to use our key role to facilitate and accelerate a sustainable global financial system.

What We Offer:

• Work closely with inspiring, supportive and engaged colleagues from more than 80 different countries.
• Practice your talents in a highly professional international environment.
• Join a learning and development environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing and training.
• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.

Ways of working

Find your own optimal balance within our hybrid working model, where you can connect at the office 8 days a month and also benefit from remote working.

Great Place to Work for All

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates diversity and strives to be a Great Place to Work for All. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment, regardless of any aspect that makes them unique (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, disability, ...). If you need any specific accommodation due to disability or any other reason, you can let the recruiter know during your application process. Our values guide how we work together and shape our future: Our mission and values - Euroclear

About the Team

The Group Digital Capabilities (GDC) division contributes to Euroclear’s competitiveness by delivering reliable and sustainable IT solutions for the financial securities markets. Our teams deliver new IT solutions and improve existing applications for both our internal and external clients. We deploy changes into the production environment in a controlled and structured way that does not compromise production stability and we ensure applicative production support.