System Architect

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Our client located in Center City Philadelphia is seeking a Senior System Architect for an immediate full time / direct hire opportunity.
Market Operations and Technology
Activities:
Market Operations and Technology (MOT) provides technology and market operations to our client's businesses.
The Technology Division
is responsible for the management of our client's technology infrastructure, the support and development of existing business systems and the delivery and deployment of new systems, technologies and services. It comprises business aligned teams which provide dedicated and specialist services to businesses as well as central teams which provide shared services, such as infrastructure, to multiple businesses.
Description:
The Application Architect position is the top-level applications development contributor, consultant, and advisor with broad, comprehensive technology knowledge and experience with high volume complex database and reporting systems. This person is seen as the go-to person and as the subject matter expert.
Technical Knowledge and Skills
Technical expertise should cover application architecture, database architecture, data warehousing, testing processes and procedures, quality assurance, advanced application programming, development lifecycle, application and technical security methodologies and high availability design.
Solid understanding of the Financial Services business and how technology can be best leveraged in that industry. Specific knowledge of Buy-Side processing including analytical and quantitative modeling, Order management systems and trade flow, trade match and settlement processing, mutual fund processing, commission calculation, pre and post trade compliance, and client reporting.
Strong communication skills, superior analytical, design, and application architecture experience, extensive knowledge of the Fund Institutional and Managed accounts business in relation to solving highly complex business and technical issues.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Strategic Direction
Actively seek to understand end-to-end business flows while continually striving for system optimization
Evaluate current state and recommend/plan out future state of business systems
Actively research, evaluate and champion solutions that will drive competitive advantage and reduce total cost of ownership
Development of application technology roadmap in association with overarching Global roadmap
Implement decision framework and governance for future product selection (Buy-Sell-Hold)
Mentor associates in specific technologies
Review work of others and communicate effectively improvements
Architectural Framework
Participate and contribute to establishment of architectural framework for Businesses including key elements of framework:
Business Architecture
Application Architecture
Data Architecture
Infrastructure Services Architecture
Security
Support/Maintenance
Availability/Failover/Disaster Recovery
Governance
Participate in and contribute to the establishment of architectural governance across business. Includes:
Participation in the Architectural Review Board
Provide guidance to key change activities throughout the North American Business units. Guidance includes:
Solution strategy review
Solution design review
Adoption of Best practices
Actively engage the North American businesses in understanding the importance and benefits of a coherent architectural framework
Build support for the architecture roadmap
Participate and contribute to the growing understanding and adoption of best practices (solutions and processes)
Lead Architect representing Reporting team on Projects. Responsible for leading or participating in all phases of the SDLC (System Development Life Cycle from Analysis and Development through Testing, and Implementations; This includes all applicable documentation as defined in the SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle) guide.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Exhibits strong leadership capability
Strong knowledge and experience with WebMethods/web services and Pervasive/ETL technologies
5 plus years of knowledge of Investment Industry - (Buy-Side, Mutual fund, Institutional)
5 plus years in increasingly complex technical application development roles
3 plus years' experience with SOA architecture
3 plus years' experience with high volume complex reporting systems
5 plus years with complex relational data modeling experience including Enterprise Data Warehouse development
Ability to analyze and resolve the most complex application development issues
Strong mentor, change agent, and team player
Must be able to prioritize and manage multiple tasks
In depth knowledge and experience with Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies, project planning techniques, and project management principles
Ability to effectively communicate to staff and upper management.
BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
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