Solutions Architect

1 month ago

Chicago, United States Thrive Full time

This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the largest global investment management firms. The company is currently on a digital transformation journey and requires a talented individual to take responsibility for a number of end-to-end technology solutions to deliver strategic business outcomes.

As a Solution Architect, you will be joining a motivated team of professionals working to architect solutions for the entire breadth of the firm, including Portfolio Managers, Analysts, Quants, Marketing, Compliance, and Operations. You will gain exposure to a variety of partners at all levels, from Senior Technology leaders to Senior Business partners.

The candidate will be required to put forward roadmaps and designs for an all-encompassing vision for target state technology solutions for the initiatives and work with several engineering teams spanning multiple technologies to ensure its implementation. The candidate must be able to identify and resolve issues that are creating inefficiencies or hindering progress proactively.

Responsibilities:Design Ownership
  • Producing and owning the end-to-end design of the solution spanning multiple software components (evidencing at all points how the design answers the requirements – clear traceability).
  • Working with engineering teams to ensure detailed component-level design responds to the end-to-end design.
  • Working with the Senior Architects to ensure that data and functional architectures adhere to the high-level architecture principles and support target state vision for the enterprise.
  • Working with the IT Infrastructure implementation team to make sure that planned infrastructure adequately supports the software components of the solution.
Requirements
  • Working closely with Business stakeholders, Product Managers/Owners, and Business Analysts to help translate desired business outcomes into robust system requirements, both functional and non-functional.
Development & Testing:
  • Facilitate and participate in detailed design reviews and ensure that all components of the solution are aligned to the target state vision.
  • Working with the testing team to support the definition and implementation of the testing strategy for the initiative.
Software Delivery
  • Working with component developers to elicit, validate and refine estimates for developing the software components.
  • Planning and coordination of deployment activities across multiple technology platforms.
  • Overall accountability for delivering technology change is shared with IT project managers.
Qualifications:
  • 7-10 years’ experience in Finance - Investment Management sector.
  • Substantial experience in software/application development with progressively increasing responsibilities and long-term engagements with employers.
  • Experience working on investment management front office systems including portfolio management systems, OMS & trading platforms.
  • Understanding of IBOR & ABOR fundamentals.
  • Experience of the Charles River (CRIMS) product and interfaces.
  • Track record of designing and delivering solution architecture for data-intensive initiatives spanning multiple technologies, delivered over the course of 2-3 years, and budgeted above $5m.
  • Experience of large transformational projects with multi-year system migration planning.
  • Experience implementing and integrating 3rd party packages as part of technology solutions.
  • Experience with Agile delivery methodologies; working knowledge of the SAFe framework would be a plus.
  • Practical understanding and experience of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD).
Specialist knowledge/skills:
  • Excellent understanding and practical experience of defining, designing and implementing Microservices in an enterprise environment.
  • Excellent understanding and practical experience of cloud technologies, including PaaS, container platforms (Docker and Kubernetes), Serverless, etc. Experience with Red Hat Openshift and AWS of significant benefit.
  • Knowledge of enterprise messaging technologies with experience of Kafka.
  • Knowledge of UX/UI design and technologies.
  • In addition, it would be a plus to have exposure to:
    • Big Data technology stacks, such as native AWS and/or Cloudera CDH/CDP.
    • Data management and data quality tools.
Competence/Characteristics:
  • Visual thinker able to communicate effectively with diagrams.
  • Good facilitation skills, ability to broker an agreement on a contentious issue.
  • Proactive, ‘can learn’/‘can do’ attitude.
  • Team & business focused.

Experience level: Mid-senior

Experience required: 10 Years

Job function: Information Technology

Total position: 1

Relocation assistance: No

Visa: Only US citizens and Greencard holders

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