- Lead, coach and develop the Solution Architecture team, including objective setting, performance support, succession planning, capability development and effective allocation of architecture resources to organisational priorities.
- Own and continually improve the Solution Architecture operating model, engagement approach, quality bar, methods and measures of effectiveness.
- Be accountable for the quality and coherence of end-to-end solution design across business, data, integration, application, security, resilience and operational domains.
- Ensure solution designs align with enterprise target architectures, principles, standards, technology strategy and multi-year roadmaps, working closely with Business, Data and Technology Architecture colleagues.
- Establish proportionate architecture governance and assurance, ensuring material decisions, risks, exceptions and trade-offs are transparent, recorded and addressed at the appropriate level.
- Chair or contribute to architecture governance forums, ensuring reviews improve outcomes, accelerate decisions and avoid unnecessary bureaucracy.
- Influence senior business and technology stakeholders, constructively challenging proposals where required and creating alignment across product, engineering, data, security, operations and delivery teams.
- Provide architecture leadership for strategic investment-management transformation, including Aladdin, associated integrations, data flows and the medallion data architecture.
- Promote reuse, interoperability, simplification and application rationalisation to improve the long-term sustainability of the technology estate.
- Carry out other duties as assigned
What to expect when you join our firm
- Hybrid working and reasonable accommodations
- Generous Holiday policies
- Excellent Health and Wellbeing benefits including corporate membership to Wellhub
- Paid volunteer time to step away from your desk and into the community
- Support to grow through professional development courses, tuition/qualification reimbursement and more
- Maternal/paternal leave benefits and family services
- All employee events including networking opportunities and social activities
- Lunch allowance for use within our subsidized onsite canteen
Must have skills
- Significant architecture leadership experience in a complex, regulated, global organisation, ideally within investment management or financial services.
- Demonstrable experience leading and developing architecture teams and building a strong, outcome-focused professional community.
- Deep understanding of investment-management capabilities, operating models, data and technology platforms.
- Proven accountability for enterprise-scale, end-to-end solution design across business, data, integration, applications, security, resilience and operations.
- Experience defining and operating architecture governance that is proportionate, transparent and effective.
- Evidence of influencing senior stakeholders, resolving ambiguity and challenging delivery constructively in a matrix organisation.
- Ability to translate strategy and target architectures into practical transition states, reusable patterns, decision records and delivery roadmaps.
- Strong judgement in balancing strategic alignment, control, delivery pace, cost, risk and pragmatism.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to make complex design choices clear to technical and non-technical audiences
Nice to have skills
- Experience of cloud and data platforms such as Azure, Snowflake and Databricks, and of modern integration and API patterns.
- Experience of BlackRock Aladdin, its integration landscape and associated data capabilities, together with practical understanding of medallion data architecture.
- Experience with strategic finance, distribution or investment data platforms relevant to a global asset manager.
- Experience working with AI-enabled technology teams and delegated governance models.
- Relevant architecture qualification or professional accreditation.
Supervisory responsibilities
- Yes - the role leads the Solution Architecture team and is accountable for people leadership, coaching, succession, capability development and resource allocation.
Potential for growth
- Mentoring
- Leadership development programs
- Regular training
- Career development services
- Continuing education courses
