Solutions Architect

Location: Pune/ Bangalore / Hyderabad/Chennai / Kolkata

Reports To: Vice President Global head of ISG Capital Markets

Department: BFSI Industry Solutions Group

Experience Range: 15-20 Years

Detailed Job Description

1. Looking for a Solution Architect in Wealth Management (WM) domain who brings a blend of strong technical expertise combined with deep WM industry knowledge.

2. The candidate needs to be a strategic thinker with expertise and ambition to adopt emerging technology to build commercially viable solutions to address gaps & white spaces in the WM domain

3. 15 20 years of experience in the WM industry or IT services industry with focus on WM / financial services verticals

In-depth knowledge of concepts of wealth management. The candidate should have exposure to working in the front, middle and back office

Strong domain understanding across one of more of WM and Financial Advisor Value chain process such as Client onboarding, Relationship 360-degree summary view, Goal based planning, Goal monitoring, Trade order management, Trade execution, Post Trade processing, Accounting, Reconciliation, Corporate actions processing, Performance measurement and Client reporting.

Additional specialization in areas such as equities, fixed income, derivatives, mutual funds, private banking, hedge funds, private equity fund accounting, SMA's, pension funds etc.

Constant up to date knowledge of the latest trends in the WM Industry and emergence of FinTech ecosystem

4. Candidate should have work experience with a few of the COTS products given below:

WM Industry COTS products like FIS Unity Wealth platform, Temenos Wealth Management

Financial planning tools like Naviplan

SAAS products like InvestCloud

Trade order management products such as Charles River, Front Arena, Fidessa, etc.

Accounting products such as Eagle, Advent Geneva, etc.

Performance measurement products such as Addepar, BISAM B-One, Statpro.

5. Proven track record of building commercially viable WM solutions covering MACH principles - Micro services, APIs. Cloud, and headless Architecture

Candidate should have led Architecture definition & Solution Design and overseen end to end implementation programs

Candidate should be able to define tech stack for a proposed solution and also lead the effort estimation

Be able to work with multiple technical teams and drive the solution development

Candidate should be well versed with emerging trends and technologies in the AI space and experience of building a GenAI based solution is a big plus. AI

5+ years of hands-on experience with target operating model definition, business case creation, program roadmap definition and organization change management

6. Stakeholder management including hands-on experience interacting with the C Suite (both business and technology) is mandatory

7. Presentation skills with crisp and clear articulation of the solution are a must

8. Must have experience of working with clients across multiple regions USA, UK, Europe in a global delivery setup etc.