Solutions Architect - Collateral Management

Solution Architect - Collateral Management

Sector: Financial Services

Location: London (Hybrid - 2 days per week onsite)

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 integration and data technologies, and experience with JavaScript front-end frameworks like Angular is advantageous.
• 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 escalate.
• 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.