Domain Architect – Financial Markets & Group Treasury Pricing

About the role

ING Hubs Romania, a software development hub serving 24 ING units worldwide, is looking for a Domain Architect for the Pricing area within Financial Markets and Group Treasury. You will shape the target architecture for FM and Trading Risk capabilities, working with business stakeholders, quants, engineers, solution architects and platform teams so that pricing services, market data flows, analytics and reporting components and downstream integrations are consistent, scalable and resilient.

Key responsibilities

• Translate business vision and strategy into enterprise architecture, defining and improving the principles and models that describe current and future states.
• Execute the global Business & IT Roadmap process, with centralised designs and logical global decompositions, and analyse market and IT trends.
• Work with business and tech representatives to define a logical target architecture, considering requirements, ING standards and standard solutions.
• Work with Solution Architects to turn the logical architecture into technical and solution architecture.
• Develop and maintain architectural artefacts such as application architectures, roadmaps, data models and documentation.
• Perform architecture management and act as a trusted advisor to business, IT and fellow architects.
• Contribute to the Wholesale Banking Centre of Excellence Architecture to improve ways of working and tooling.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• At least 5 years of experience as an IT architect or in a similar IT function.
• Excellent understanding of Financial Markets products and business processes.
• Experience in a highly regulated environment such as a financial institution.
• Up to date with architecture trends and vendor developments.
• Front-to-back T-shaped profile, with strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.

Required skills

• Knowledge of architecture standards and frameworks.
• Experience with IT architecture methodologies such as TOGAF and agile environments.
• Experience with architecture modelling tools such as ArchiMate.
• Experience designing front-office pricing, risk or quantitative analytics platforms, with knowledge of low-latency architectures, real-time market data, pricing engines and electronic trading environments.