DescriptionDivision: Group Business Solutions (GBS)
Within GBS you will join the Solutions Architecture team within the Software Engineering Tribe where you can play a key role in defining the target architecture and endtoend design of initiatives across the different GBS domains with a focus on the Settlement area.
Please note that this is a permanent position and we do not offer freelance/contract arrangement for the role.
Role
- You support the delivery of transversal IT initiatives as a Solution Architect accountable for defining and realizing endtoend architecture solutions that fulfill the functional nonfunctional and strict security & resilience requirements.
- From inception to realization you collaborate with requirement owners and domain architects leading IT engineers and application experts across the organization to design fitforpurpose and quality endtoend solutions.
- You act as the linchpin between Enterprise Architecture and IT delivery engineers ensuring alignment of the endtoend solution with enterprise standards and domain target architectures.
- You actively participate in developing the Solution Architecture & Software Engineering practices in Euroclear contributing reusable and consumable solution patterns and building blocks to the community.
- You leverage your handson technology and delivery experience to define domain target architectures and roadmaps.
- You contribute to the Software Engineering Department by designing new technology solutions that align with the departments scope and mission (covering mainframe and open platforms: software development tools and processes application integration middleware and frameworks application integration guidelines and practices application infrastructure design and provisioning).
- You will actively participate in communities of practice with other solution architects and domain architects to collaborate and share best practices and lessons learned.
- You contribute to improving the Solution Architecture practice.
Profile
- You have proven and extensive experience in the IT industry.
- Experience in the Financial Services industry and knowledge of Security Settlement is required; understanding of the Capital Markets is a plus.
- You have worked as a solution architect on transformation projects designing developing and deploying missioncritical transactional systems.
- You have worked as an architect in agile projects that used DevOps practices including CI/CD.
- You have designed or architected eventdriven and servicebased applications.
- You have experience with designing and implementing RESTful APIs.
- You have proven experience in mainframe and integration & data technologies in general. Some experience with .NET/Java would also be beneficial.
- An understanding of modern integration patterns between mainframe and distributed technology is desirable.
- You cope with systems and problems of various levels of complexity which can typically span across functions locations and organizations.
- You can autonomously tackle all types of architectural analysis and provide global and pragmatic recommendations adapted to the company context with little guidance.
- You can support the creation of strategic position papers and reference architectures and you have the ability to focus on the technical challenges of implementation.
- You are a problemsolver with strong analytical skills (e.g. breaking up and structuring complex problems into manageable pieces) which you apply to problems spanning multiple architectural domains.
- You strive for a pragmatic approach (80/20 rule) and deliver fitforpurpose and actionable results.
- You are proactive in identifying the need for change and proposing innovative solutions that improve our IT software delivery or engineering processes.
- You can effectively communicate and advocate for architecture recommendations to project/agile delivery teams and senior business and IT management. You can sell the architecture.
- A strong command of English is required.
- You can use your experience knowledge and communication skills to build strong relationships with colleagues across the organization.
- Knowledge of posttrade market infrastructures (e.g. CSD) and Enterprise Architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF IAF OAA) are desirable extra assets.
- Degree or equivalent experience required.
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