Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• Define and own solution architectures for investment initiatives, translating business and investment requirements into fit‑for‑purpose, secure, and scalable technical designs aligned to enterprise standards.
• Develop solution‑level architecture artefacts including solution designs, integration models, deployment views, and non‑functional requirement definitions to support successful delivery of investment systems and platforms.
• Provide architectural leadership to delivery teams (engineering, data, security, vendors, and partners), guiding design decisions throughout the delivery lifecycle and resolving complex technical issues as they arise.
• Ensure solution compliance with architectural standards, security controls, and risk requirements, participating in architecture governance forums and addressing review outcomes for assigned initiatives.
• Collaborate closely with investment business stakeholders, product owners, and delivery leads to ensure architectural solutions meet functional needs, performance expectations, and regulatory obligations.
• Evaluate and recommend vendor and product solutions at a solution level, supporting procurement and design decisions through technical assessments, proofs of concept, and option analysis.
• Identify solution‑specific risks, constraints, and dependencies, proposing mitigations and trade‑offs to balance delivery timelines, cost, and technical integrity.
• Support the implementation of investment platforms and systems, ensuring architectural intent is maintained through build, test, and deployment phases.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of architecture standards, patterns, and practices by feeding lessons learned from delivered solutions back into the broader architecture community.

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field.
• Certifications demonstrating expertise in enterprise architecture or investments would be a benefit.

Required experience, understanding or credentials including:

• Recent hands‑on solution architecture experience within investment technology, with broader experience working in financial services environments.
• Proven experience designing and delivering solution architectures for complex investment initiatives, from early design through to implementation and transition to support.
• Demonstrated track record designing and implementing resilient, scalable investment systems and platforms, including integration with upstream and downstream enterprise systems.
• Experience designing solutions in a cloud‑first technology environment, involving software‑as‑a‑service platforms, investment data providers, cloud infrastructure services, and end‑user applications.
• Working knowledge of front, middle, and back‑office investment operations, and the technology capabilities required to support these functions.
• Practical understanding of investment products, asset classes, and financial markets, sufficient to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.
• Strong understanding of investment workflows, including trade lifecycle processing, risk management, valuation, and performance measurement, as they impact solution design.
• Knowledge of regulatory, compliance, and risk requirements relevant to investment systems, and experience designing solutions that meet these obligations.
• Experience operating within an architecture governance framework, including preparing solution designs, responding to review feedback, and ensuring compliance with enterprise standards.
• Awareness of current FinTech and investment technology trends, with the ability to assess their applicability to solutions being developed
• Solid understanding of information security principles, particularly as they relate to the protection of investment data, integrations, and cloud‑based services.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to clearly articulate solution designs, trade‑offs, and risks to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Well-developed analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to evaluate options, balance constraints, and make sound architectural decisions within delivery timeframes.