IT Architect – Architecture Consultant-Expert x 2
Role Responsibilities:
• Liaise with CIO teams across our Global Markets to develop requirements and target architecture deliverables
• Build credibility with internal and external stakeholders by demonstrating a strong understanding of the business domain, core platforms and common industry technologies
• Engaging across the Capital Markets delivery teams to understand their business domain responsibilities, key end to end workflows, core data assets and strategic plans
– How business roles + desks utilize technology, how technology is built, and what technologies they require
• Building out requirements and documenting architectural diagrams that represent a future state, then collaborating with Capital Markets teams to refine
– Successfully pitch these to CIO’s, CTO’s, as well as other senior leadership
• Alignment of architectural deliverables to relevant strategies and OKRs to justify technology choices
• Facilitate and organize Capital Markets processes and activities into appropriate business models to facilitate technology alignment
• Collect and organize technology inventories into appropriate capability and platform models to support architectural decision making
• Identifying technology choices and completing trade off analysis to support architectural decision making
• Create compelling arguments that tell a story and facilitate rapid decision making
• Organizing technology choices and transitional architectures into executable roadmaps for future funding
• Improve the practices required to maintain architecture viewpoints as persistent current state and future state representations
Must-Have Skills:
• Must have worked consistently in Capital Markets technology roles within the last 10 years
• Must have 5+ years of experience in technical and/or architectural roles in Capital Markets
• Must be an individual with the capacity and experience to work independently, facilitate decision making, speak frankly, and stand behind their ideas
• Must have strong consultative, technology analysis and architecture skills
• Excellent documentation and presentation skills
o Must be comfortable presenting ideas, decisions, and options to senior leadership in an engaging and concise manner
• Excellent PowerPoint and Visio skills
• Critical thinking and analysis skills
Nice to Have Skills:
• Experience in major transformational programs
• Experience as Capital Markets Enterprise Architect
• Experience as Capital Markets Solutions Architect
• Experience as management consultant