Solution Architect - IPA Pricing Engines & Post-processing

About the role

ING Hubs Romania, a software development hub serving 24 ING units worldwide, is looking for a Solution Architect for its Financial Market IPA Pricing Engines and Post-processing area. You will strengthen the design and implementation quality of the main pricing and valuation engines by improving technology infrastructure, operational efficiency, scalability and reliability, while keeping security in mind. You sit in the Wholesale Baking Centre of Excellence (COE) Architecture and act as a partner to the engineering and product teams in Financial Market and Group Treasury Pricing.

Key responsibilities

• Translate business vision and enterprise architecture into solution designs and act as a partner to engineering and product teams.
• Execute the global Business & IT Roadmap process with centralized designs and logical global decompositions, and analyse market and IT trends.
• Liaise between Domain Architects and DevOps teams, and document as-is and to-be processes and designs, including migration roadmaps and plans.
• Organize and support DevOps and Quant team workshops and architecture review meetings.
• Design and develop proof-of-concept projects that can be turned into MVPs by engineering teams.
• Coach engineers on ING standards and validate new architectural decisions.
• Apply architecture patterns such as Request/Reply, event-driven architectures (e.g. Kafka), microservices and resilience patterns (e.g. retry strategies).
• Keep up with low-latency, well-architected and cloud-native trends, and escalate non-compliance with policies, procedures or regulations.

Required profile

• At least seven years of experience as an engineer or architect.
• Experience in highly regulated environments such as financial institutions.
• Knowledge of financial markets, pricing, valuation, risk management and the role of pricing engines.
• Experience developing trading or e-trading applications with low-latency requirements.
• Previous experience as a back-end or quantitative analysis engineer.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to build partnerships with organizational leaders.

Required skills

• Java and C++ are mandatory.
• In-depth knowledge of IT architecture methodologies (e.g. TOGAF), service management processes and agile environments.
• Archimate or another architecture modelling language is a plus.