Banking - Trading - Derivative Product Issuing - FrontArena - Murex
Solution Architect Financial Trading
Responsibilities
- System Architect for a platform used for derivative product issuing, trading and hedging in the financial industry
- Work closely with the Product Managers, Product Owners, IT Application responsible and Agile teams to drive the delivery of the roadmap
- Collaborate closely with Business owners and various stakeholders and elaborate and present innovative and efficient solutions up to C-Level
- Drive definition of target and transition architecture for various initiatives, ensuring alignment with the overall enterprise architecture vision and close collaboration with business stakeholders
- Own solution blueprint definition and transition roadmaps
- Support the definition and execution of the architecture governance
- Understand the trends and drivers in the financial industry, markets & technology and propose innovative and sound solutions to business partners
- Empower Agile squads to deliver fit for purpose solutions
Requirements
- Multiple years of experience as a System Architect within financial industry or consulting with banking focus
- Good understanding of Financial Markets environment
- Several years of experience in financial trading systems and environments including familiarity with the data models, risk engines, and reporting platforms
- Solid understanding of market and credit risk concepts
- Experience with various integration technologies (e.g., streaming, messaging, web services)
- Passionate about technology with a "can do" attitude and entrepreneurial spirit
- Knowledge and curiosity in current technologies, technology trends, and financial market developments
- Excellent knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, methodologies, and tools
- Excellent English language skills
Nice to have
- Experience in trading, execution or derivatives issuing architecture and design in previous projects
- Experience in implementing or supporting Front Arena and/or Murex
- Hands-on experience as web software developer (e.g., Java, .Net, Java Script, React, Angular, relational databases, No SQL databases)
- Certification in business architecture (e.g., TOGAF, BIZBOK)
- Basic German language skills
Personality
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills
- Strong personal drive to improve status quo, to share knowledge, make team better and open to learn and collaborate with peers and stakeholders
- Good organizational skills, analytical, and problem-solving mind-set
We are a strong customer focused company working mainly for Top 500 companies. We pay great attention to further training and development, carrier opportunities and working conditions. We provide these opportunities to Swiss and EU residents. If you are strong in the above mentioned fields do not hesitate to send us your application and let us inform you about this.