Sr Solutions Architect - Expert In Recruitment Solutions

Job Title Sr Solutions Architect
C/CTH/Perm + Duration 6 months CTH
Hybrid – 3 Days onsite
Position Notes

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Principal Responsibilities:

• Translate complex and sometimes ambiguous business and technical requirements into sound technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and be responsible for developing components of, or the overall systems and platforms design, and express those in technical diagrams.
• Partner with application owners, SME and product owners, other Architects, engineers and delivery professionals to improve the our clients Technology Governance, Risk and Compliance solution delivery and standardization as well as influence and shape the strategic direction and target state platform architecture. Clearly capture the agreed upon results in technical designs.
• Provide guidance on technical strategy, design the overall technology architecture, mentor and coach the technical team as you implement capabilities to solve complex business problems, design innovative services to improve customer experience and speed of delivery.
• Support ARB entry as a primary vehicle for introducing new technologies and identifying risk and impact of these into DTCC.
• Develop and follow comprehensive DR strategies and solutions to meet internal or regulatory requirements.
• Keep up to date with emerging technologies and recommend directions and approaches based on the technology trends, business requirements and strategic vision.
• Educate the application developers, engineering teams, delivery, and support teams on standards, processes, approaches, and tools.
• Demonstrate sound judgement while assessing and mitigating risks to safeguard the firm's and its clients' reputation and assets in decision making following Risk management and Risk mitigations approaches.
• Support compliance to applicable laws, rules, regulations, adhering to Standards and Policies.
Experience:
• Extensive work experience as a Solution Engineer or Architect, or an Enterprise Architect.
• Years of experience in post-trade processing of global financial transactions is a significant plus
• Specialized knowledge of our clients applications and/or financial industry post trade solutions is a significant differentiator among candidates. Candidates who lack such knowledge will be expected to rapidly develop financial industry post trade domain knowledge. Position requires highly advanced analytical skills and demonstrated leadership capability.
Knowledge and Skills Required:
• Ethical behavior. High level of personal and professional integrity, teamwork attitude and collaboration skills.
• Inclusive leadership acumen with ability to listen to, evaluate and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives to the benefit of the organization
• Effective communication. Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication and teamwork and customer service skills.
• Ability to negotiate, influence, and collaborate to build successful relationships.
• Strong leadership presence with an ability to translate and communicate sophisticated technical solutions in understandable terms to a broad range of audiences.
• Ability to influence across all organizational levels, including partners and senior management.
• Identify and manage anticipated resistance to upcoming technology changes.
• Ability to research and acquire needed knowledge, continuously learn new technologies and skills on an on-going basis through self-initiative tackling complex projects and initiatives.
• Superb problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience with Governance, Risk, and Compliance concepts.
• Well organized and structured. Competent in project management discipline (can manage to tight deadlines) and administration.
• Knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for sound decisions making in the context of the company's business.
• Ability to effectively function and stay objective under stress in dynamic environment that introduces changing priorities along with agile ways of working while keeping the strategic goals as a guardrail.
• Must be proactive, able to demonstrate initiative and take a lead to devise elegant, quality, scalable cost-effective solutions, and processes with ability to visualize and express those in technical diagrams.
• Ability to combine the broad picture vision with attention to the details.
• Broad expertise in Information Technology and Architectural fundamentals, understanding how to effectively run technology as a business.
• Deep knowledge is several technology concentration areas.
• Possess strong business insight.