Chief/Principal Enterprise Architect (Director Grade)
Location: Greater London
Compensation: Up to £145k ---> Comprehensive Benefits Package (Pension, Health, 35 Days Holiday, Hybrid Work Culture) - Flexible!
This role requires a highly skilled and experienced Chief/Principal Enterprise Architect to join a Global Asset Management Enterprise Architecture team. This role is pivotal in shaping the strategic technology landscape of our organization, ensuring alignment with business goals, and driving innovation across asset management infrastructure.
Candidates must have experience across key asset classes, including Equities, Fixed Income, Private Assets, Multi-Asset Solutions, and ESG Investments. They should be adept at designing and implementing technology architectures that address the unique needs of these asset classes, such as equity trading, portfolio management, and analytics, while ensuring risk management and compliance for bonds and derivatives. (Non-Negotiable)
In this role, you will leverage your substantial experience in strategic and detailed architecture design, spanning full program delivery life cycles. Managing a team of Solution Architects across EMEA and APAC, you will oversee business, data, infrastructure, and security architecture while collaborating closely with business stakeholders, BAs, and engineering teams.
Bridging Business and Technology:
- Act as a vital bridge between business stakeholders and technology teams. Ensure data architecture aligns with both operational goals and strategic business initiatives.
- Translate business needs into actionable technical solutions.
Deputizing and Leadership:
- Serve as a deputy for senior leadership, taking charge of the investment/portfolio architecture strategy.
- Act as the go-to expert in navigating complex technical landscapes, ensuring that your team delivers top-tier solutions.
- Maintain alignment with broader organizational goals while providing the strategic guidance needed to drive success across the investment management technologies division.
Strategic Leadership: Define and drive the strategic roadmap for the divisions technology landscape, ensuring alignment with business goals and regulatory requirements.
Architecture Development: Lead the development and execution of the enterprise architecture strategy for our Investment Solutions and Services division.
Team Management: Manage and mentor a team of Senior Enterprise Architects and Solution Architects across EMEA and APAC, fostering a collaborative and innovative team environment.
Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a trusted advisor to C-suite executives, product owners, and business stakeholders, ensuring technology solutions align with business strategies and objectives.
Technology Innovation: Evaluate and implement emerging technologies (e.g., AI/ML, blockchain, microservices) to enhance operational efficiency, data integrity, and business agility.
Governance and Compliance: Present architectural solutions to governance bodies (e.g., Technical Design Authority, Architecture Review Board) and ensure adherence to corporate standards and regulatory requirements.
Project Oversight: Oversee the end-to-end delivery of complex technology projects, from initial concept through implementation and ongoing optimization.
Data Architecture Alignment: Ensure data architecture aligns with operational goals and strategic business initiatives, addressing the unique needs of various asset classes.
Minimum Requirements:
- Extensive experience as an enterprise architect in the financial services industry, particularly in asset management.
- Proven leadership experience managing teams of senior architects and engineers.
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS) and data management solutions (e.g., Snowflake).
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence at the executive level.
- In-depth understanding of financial products, private assets, and investment management operations.
- Proficiency in architecture frameworks such as TOGAF and best practices in DevOps and Agile methodologies.
Focus on Asset Management and Asset Classes
- Equities: Understand and address the architecture needs for equity trading, portfolio management, and analytics to support investment strategies.
- Fixed Income: Design systems to handle the complexities of bonds, derivatives, and other fixed income products, including risk management and compliance.
- Private Assets: Tackle the unique challenges of private equity, real estate, and other alternative investments, focusing on valuation, reporting, and transparency.
- Multi-Asset Solutions: Create frameworks to support diversified investment strategies across various asset classes, ensuring seamless integration and data consistency.
- ESG Investments: Incorporate environmental, social, and governance criteria into the technology architecture to support sustainable and responsible investment initiatives.
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