Solutions Architect (Capital Markets)

Solutions Architect (Capital Markets)

Client: Top 5 Bank

PRIMARY LOCATION: Downtown Toronto – Hybrid 2-3days/week

EMPLOYMENT TYPE: 6 months contract

Project: The IT Architecture Consultant will address CTO architecture capacity gaps by engaging across CM CIO teams to develop Capital Markets reference & target architecture deliverables. Will work primarily in Global Markets, trading systems, and pre & post trade execution.

Must-have requirements:

1. 10+ years of Capital Market experience
2. 5+ years as an Architect role in Capital Markets/Banking space
3. PowerPoint & Visio

Role Mandate: The IT Architecture Consultant will address CTO architecture capacity gaps by engaging across CM CIO teams to develop Capital Markets reference & target architecture deliverables. Will work primarily in Global Markets, trading systems, and pre & post trade execution.

Role Responsibilities:

• Liaise with CIO teams across 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