You will lead solution architecture activities that support the organisation's strategic goals and technology needs. You will collaborate with senior leaders and technical experts across the investment and technology functions to create scalable, secure, and resilient solutions that support critical investment analysis, decision-making processes, trading, and regulatory compliance.
Key responsibilities
- Define and own solution architectures for investment initiatives, translating business and investment requirements into fit-for-purpose, secure, and scalable technical designs aligned to enterprise standards.
- Develop solution-level architecture artefacts, including solution designs, integration models, deployment views, and non-functional requirement definitions, to support successful delivery of investment systems and platforms.
- Provide architectural leadership to delivery teams (engineering, data, security, vendors, and partners), guiding design decisions throughout the delivery lifecycle and resolving complex technical issues as they arise.
- Ensure solution compliance with architectural standards, security controls, and risk requirements, participating in architecture governance forums and addressing review outcomes for assigned initiatives.
- Collaborate closely with investment business stakeholders, product owners, and delivery leads to ensure architectural solutions meet functional needs, performance expectations, and regulatory obligations.
- Evaluate and recommend vendor and product solutions at a solution level, supporting procurement and design decisions through technical assessments, proofs of concept, and option analysis.
- Identify solution-specific risks, constraints, and dependencies, proposing mitigations and trade-offs to balance delivery timelines, cost, and technical integrity.
- Support the implementation of investment platforms and systems, ensuring architectural intent is maintained through build, test, and deployment phases.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of architecture standards, patterns, and practices by feeding lessons learned from delivered solutions back into the broader architecture community.
Required experience:
- Recent hands-on solution architecture experience within investment technology, with broader experience working in financial services environments.
- Proven experience designing and delivering solution architectures for complex investment initiatives, from early design through to implementation and transition to support.
- Demonstrated track record designing and implementing resilient, scalable investment systems and platforms, including integration with upstream and downstream enterprise systems.
- Experience designing solutions in a cloud-first technology environment, involving software-as-a-service platforms, investment data providers, cloud infrastructure services, and end-user applications.
- Working knowledge of front, middle, and back-office investment operations, and the technology capabilities required to support these functions.
- Practical understanding of investment products, asset classes, and financial markets, sufficient to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.
- Strong understanding of investment workflows, including trade lifecycle processing, risk management, valuation, and performance measurement, as they impact solution design.
- Knowledge of regulatory, compliance, and risk requirements relevant to investment systems, and experience designing solutions that meet these obligations.
- Experience operating within an architecture governance framework, including preparing solution designs, responding to review feedback, and ensuring compliance with enterprise standards.
- Awareness of current FinTech and investment technology trends, with the ability to assess their applicability to solutions being developed.
- Solid understanding of information security principles, particularly as they relate to the protection of investment data, integrations, and cloud-based services.
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