Domain Architect - Financial Markets & Group Treasury, Pricing Area

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ING Hubs Romania offers 130 services in software development, data management, non-financial risk & compliance, audit, and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide, with the help of over 2000 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals. 

We started out in 2015 as ING’s software development hub, then steadily expanded our range to include more services and competencies. Now we provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities and operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca. 

Our tech capabilities remain the core of our business, with more than 1800 colleagues active in Data and Analytics Tech, Tech Foundation and Channels, Retail Core Banking and Architecture, and Global Products and Technology Services. 

We enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged.  

For us, impact isn't a perk. It's the driver of our work. We are guided and rewarded by a shared desire to make the world a better place, one innovative solution at a time. Our colleagues make it their job to do impactful things and they love doing it in good company. Do you?  

Here’s a sneak peak of what our colleagues say about working within ING Hubs Romania:

• At ING, we're building the solutions of tomorrow, today | 80% of our colleagues in Romania agree

The Mission

Financial Markets (FM) is the Bank’s gateway to thecapitalmarkets around the world. Our primary function is to service the needs of ING’s clients and other INGbusinesslines withproducts, services, and guidance. FM aims to be a significant player in our market leader and challenger markets, with anadditional presence in all the major international markets and specialistexpertisein selected emerging markets and products.
Group Treasury’s(GT)overarchingobjectiveis tofacilitatebusiness development for our commercial businesses and for our Financial Markets trading.

As Domain Architect for the Pricing tribe, you will shape the target architecture forFM and Trading Riskcapabilities across Financial Markets. You will work with business stakeholders, quants, engineers, solution architects, and platform teams to ensure that pricing services, market data flows, analytics/reportingcomponents, and downstreamintegrations are consistent, scalable, resilient, and aligned with ING standards and the FM/GT target architecture. You will help simplify the pricing landscape, promote reuse of common capabilities, and guide delivery teams in making sound architecture decisions across front-to-back processes.

Your day to day

As a Domain Architect you will be part of theWholesale BankingCentreof Excellence (COE) Architecture.Youtranslate business vision and strategy into effective enterprisearchitectureby creating,communicating,and improving the key principlesand models that describe thecurrent and future state.You execute the global Business & IT Roadmap process, with centralised designs and (logical) global decompositions,analysesmarket- and IT-trends and, based on this information, contributingto the strategy of the organization.

You will:

• Facilitate efficient architecture delivery, and support the FMGT Tribe and the business by providing impactful architecture across cross-domain and end-to-end complex environments.

• Work with Tech and business representatives to come to a (logical) target architecture, taking requirements, ING standards, and standard solutions into account.

• Work with Solution Architects to translate the logical architecture into the technical/solution architecture.

• Develop andmaintainrelevant architectural artifacts, including application architectures,road maps,datamodelsand other relevant documentation.

• PerformArchitecture Management; support delivery of target architecture/solutions by quality decision making.

• Contribute to the COE Architecture organisation to improve way of working, tooling, etc.

• Trusted advisor forbusiness,IT,and fellow architectswithin yourexpertise.

What you’ll bring to the team

• A bachelor’s ormaster’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field/ equivalent work experience.

• You have at least 5 years of experience as anITarchitector similar(IT)function.

• Domain knowledge:excellentunderstanding of Financial Marketsproducts and its business processes.

• Experience inworking in ahighly regulated environment (e.g.,financial institutions)

• Curious mindset: you are up to date with thearchitecturetrendsandmarket development (vendors, other financial institutions).

• Good understanding of architecture standards and frameworks.

• T-shape knowledge profile, youhave experience“front to back”but can zoom in where necessary.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills;

• Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying complexarchitecturetopics to various audiences.

• Ability to develop strong and collaborative partnerships with organizational leaders.

• You improve yourself constantly; and you challenge, improve and train others continuously.

• Knowledge of and experience with IT architecture methodologies, processes (e.g. TOGAF), service managementprocessesand an agile work environment.

• Knowledge of and experience witharchitecture modelling tools likeArchimate.

• Experience in designing and evolving Front Office pricing, risk, or quantitative analytics platforms within Financial Markets or Group Treasury, with a strong understanding of low-latency architectures, real-time market data, pricing engines, and electronic trading environments.

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