Solution Architect in Euroclear

Why join us

Embark on your new adventure at Euroclear, and work at the heart of the global capital markets. We connect over 2,000 financial institutions across the globe. As an open and resilient infrastructure, we contribute to the stability of the financial markets. We help clients cut through complexity, lower costs, and mitigate risks of financial transactions. At Euroclear, we have the clear ambition to use our key role to facilitate and accelerate a sustainable global financial system. 

What We Offer:

• Work closely with inspiring, supportive and engaged colleagues from more than 80 different countries.
• Practice your talents in a highly professional international environment.
• Join a learning and development environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing and training.
• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.

New ways of working

Find your own optimal balance within our hybrid working model, where you can connect at the office and also benefit from remote working. 

Great Place to Work for All

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates diversity and strives to be a Great Place to Work for All. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment, regardless of any aspect that makes them unique (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, disability, ...). If you need any specific accommodation due to disability or any other reason, you can let the recruiter know during your application process.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Group Technology Services (GTS) plans, builds and runs the global infrastructure of Euroclear, and is additionally responsible for the IT service management to the operating entities of the various Group markets. Group Technology Services operates its IT systems and IT services in such a way that, at an appropriate and benchmarked cost level, it can deliver the agreed levels of service to support the requirements of the business processes, for both normal operations and during disaster recovery.

Requirements:

• More than 5 years of experience in designing solutions in a distributed environment
• Preferably proven experience in developing solutions with multi-platform designs
• You are a problem-solver with strong analytical skills (e.g.: ability to break down complex problems and develop solutions)
• Ability to operate in a changing environment and to participate to the change
• Superb communication skills (verbal, written, active listening)
• Assertiveness in driving tasks to completion
• Experience in Financial Services industry, as well as offshoring is desired but not crucial

Technologies:

The following technologies are used in our environment, having knowledge on one or more products is a plus

• Windows – Linux
• Middleware technologies: IBM WebSphere MQ, Confluent Kafka, IBM Integration Bus, API Management (IBM API Connect, Azure API Management), IIS, Service Fabric, IBM Connect:Direct, Managed File Transfer, Java Application Server(JBOSS, Apache TomCat, WebSphere Liberty), Apache
• Cloud platform: various Azure services in use
• Moving towards containers on OpenShift and AKS
• Coding languages and runtimes mainly used: .NET, Java (Python)
• CI/CD stack: Azure DevOps, Artifactory, Terraform, ARM
• CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code knowledge will be a strong asset

Why join us

Embark on your new adventure at Euroclear, and work at the heart of the global capital markets. We connect over 2,000 financial institutions across the globe. As an open and resilient infrastructure, we contribute to the stability of the financial markets. We help clients cut through complexity, lower costs, and mitigate risks of financial transactions. At Euroclear, we have the clear ambition to use our key role to facilitate and accelerate a sustainable global financial system. 

What We Offer:

• Work closely with inspiring, supportive and engaged colleagues from more than 80 different countries.
• Practice your talents in a highly professional international environment.
• Join a learning and development environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing and training.
• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.

New ways of working

Find your own optimal balance within our hybrid working model, where you can connect at the office and also benefit from remote working. 

Great Place to Work for All

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates diversity and strives to be a Great Place to Work for All. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment, regardless of any aspect that makes them unique (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, disability, ...). If you need any specific accommodation due to disability or any other reason, you can let the recruiter know during your application process.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Group Technology Services (GTS) plans, builds and runs the global infrastructure of Euroclear, and is additionally responsible for the IT service management to the operating entities of the various Group markets. Group Technology Services operates its IT systems and IT services in such a way that, at an appropriate and benchmarked cost level, it can deliver the agreed levels of service to support the requirements of the business processes, for both normal operations and during disaster recovery.

,[design systems architecture to meet business needs, collecting and contributing to requirements to issue standards, guidelines and design patterns, support architecture principles and contribute to blueprints as well as future vision of architecture, act as the liaison between enterprise architecture, CISO, delivery team members and all the involved parties, team up with other Solution Architects, Domain Architects, Enterprise Architects, Technical Leads, Application (Domain) Owners, business and other collaborators to craft robust, reliable, performant, scalable solutions, participate in identifying, defining, documenting and possibly update or adapt standard design blueprints, participate actively to communities of practice with other architects to collaborate and share on architectural processes and lessons learned, support the delivery of IT initiatives as Feature engineer accountable for the definition and the realization of end-to-end design solutions that fulfil the functional, non-functional, security & resilience requirements, trigger Governance Bodies if a deviation from target architecture, standards and principles cannot be avoided, participate in project meetings and planning activities with technical teams, provide feedback from an architecture perspective. This includes participating to some ad hoc ceremonies (Product Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review), Delivering coherent IT solutions that meets both functional and non-functional requirements, Ensuring the IT solutions aligns with the Enterprise architecture standards and the business needs, Ensuring end-to-end consistency of solution delivery across teams by, for instance, coordinating walkthroughs of the solution with delivery teams, Ensuring that the solution meets guidelines and standards for design and development, Undertaking hands-on development (e.g.: establishing prototypes / proof of concepts to prove the key components of proposed new architecture), Estimating effort to implement the ] Вимоги: Analytical skills, .NET, Python, Communication skills, Windows, Linux, Kafka, IBM MQ, API, Azure, IIS, Java Бонуси та переваги: International environment, Remote work, Knowledge sharing.