Job Description
Capital Markets Domain Architect
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced Capital Markets Domain Architect with strong expertise across both Capital Markets business functions and technology architecture.
The candidate will be responsible for understanding and driving architecture across the broader Capital Markets estate, with the ability to work across multiple products, platforms and business capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and define end-to-end architecture for Capital Markets business capabilities.
- Understand the complete lifecycle of Capital Markets products, from product definition and pricing to deal execution, post-trade and reporting.
- Work with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Engineering teams and business stakeholders to define technology solutions.
- Challenge business and technology stakeholders on architecture, design and solution decisions.
- Provide architectural guidance to engineering teams and validate technical approaches.
- Define solution architecture, integration patterns, Microservices architecture and NFRs.
- Assess existing applications and determine whether to build new services, enhance existing services or split/re-engineer existing capabilities.
- Understand the interaction between customers, brokers, trading platforms and banking systems across the transaction lifecycle.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce cost and deliver business value.
- Stay updated with modern technology trends, including AI and AI-enabled engineering tools.
Mandatory Functional / Domain Skills
- Strong understanding of Capital Markets domain
- Capital Markets product lifecycle
- Markets pricing / pricing engines
- Deal quotation and execution
- Front-to-back trade lifecycle
- Trading / trader-facing applications
- Post-trade processing
- Regulatory and business reporting
- Broker and intermediary transaction flows
- Understanding of Capital Markets products and their revenue/margin models
- Experience across multiple Capital Markets capabilities/products
Mandatory Technical Skills
- Solution / Domain Architecture
- Microservices architecture
- End-to-end solution design
- API and integration architecture
- NFR definition
- Strong engineering understanding
- Ability to guide and challenge engineering teams
- Java / Spring Boot / Microservices exposure preferred
- Understanding of modern architecture and AI-enabled technology
Candidate Profile
The candidate should have strong Capital Markets domain expertise along with strong technical architecture capability.
Candidates with experience limited to a single Capital Markets application, product or technology stack will not be preferred.