Your key responsibilities

• Provide architecture leadership and technical domain expertise to client engagements focusing on complex yet innovative products and reusable assets.
• Evaluating existing corporate applications and processes (financial, actuarial systems, HR, Risk etc.) for efficiency, effectiveness, compliance and fit for business needs.
• Design and architect the corporate applications in the areas of Finance, HR, Risk and Compliance.
• Using critical thinking, consider the art of the possible, compare diverse options based on feasibility and impact, propose impactful plans and roadmaps that balance tactical and strategic needs.
• Cultivate lasting relationships across business, IT, and vendors / industry analysts to maintain insight into the broader enterprise as well as industry trends.
• Deep understanding of Application, Infrastructure and security architecture and non-functional aspects like Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Availability, and other “capabilities” of a system.
• Responsible for coaching, career development and building a competency for solution architects, dev ops with deep technical skills for the team including people management responsibilities.
• Design our financial systems and related technologies for actuarial use cases (e.g., valuation, forecast, CFT, experience studies, etc.) with end-to-end perspective.
• Partner with Solution Architects to maintain inventory of current state technology stack, documentation and architecture artifacts supporting the Corporate Technology and understand financial impact of architectural decisions.
• Declare key technology platforms, surface potential universal capabilities, and identify opportunities for consolidation / simplification of legacy.
• Develop integrated, multi-year Business / Data/ Technology roadmap to action identified opportunities.
• Contribute to the development of architecture governance structures, methodologies, and compliance activities.
• Ability to work across multiple projects with a variety of individuals and groups. A domain architect sets architectural direction, builds consensus, mediates conflicts providing technical leadership and advisory services to the business. Anticipate needs and potential objections and helps to create an environment which solicits positive contributions from all participants: Solution and Technical Architects, engineering teams, product manager, project managers, product analysts, test and project teams, Information Security and Operations.

To qualify for the role, you must have.

• Led the solution and technical architecture workstreams of a complex and medium/large scale implementation focused on connectivity and data flows between a complex portfolio of loosely integrated applications; being the bridge between the business and engineering; working closely with engineering to drive the implementation of solution architecture.
• Led and governed a team of solution architects and technical architects working on multiple projects/products.
• Drove and maintained complex multi-year business outcome driven roadmap.
• Advanced understanding and practical experience of solution architecture role with a focus on Financial Modeling systems, with proven record of playing its responsibilities successfully in a complex, global product/platform ecosystem. Proven ability to work with business as well as perform firsthand technology delivery work in architect’s capacity.
• Deep understanding and experience of one or more specialization of technical architecture role e.g., application, infrastructure/cloud, integration and security architecture and successful delivery of functional as well as non-functional aspects of a product/platform like performance, scalability, reliability, availability, other “capabilities” of a system.
• Knowledge of Corporate Systems like ERP (SAP, Ariba etc.), actuarial modeling platforms (FIS Prophet, Moody’s AXIS Enterprise Link), HR (SuccessFactors) and Risk systems
• Good working knowledge and understanding of the latest cloud computing and data technologies, business drivers, emerging computing trends, and deployment options.
• Conceptual and analytical skills – ability to extract, analyze, and document complex business and technical requirements/strategies.