Solution Architect - IPA Pricing Engines & Post-processing

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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

As a Solution Architect in Financial Market’s IPA Pricing Engines & Post-processing area, you enhance the design and implementation quality of our main pricing and valuation engines that we are using. You do this by optimizing technology infrastructure, operational efficiency, scalability and reliability but also having a trained eye on the security aspects. Your role is crucial in ensuring seamless alignment between design, implementation, business objectives, and architectural principles.

Your day to day

As a Solution Architect you will be part of the Wholesale Baking Centre of Excellence (COE) Architecture. You translate business vision and enterprise architecture into effective solution designs by acting as a strong partner to the engineering and product teams in Financial Market & Group Treasury Pricing area. You execute the global Business & IT Roadmap process, with centralized designs and (logical) global decompositions, analyses market- and IT-trends and, based on this information, contributing to the strategy of the organization.

Roles and Responsibilities 

• Act as the liaison between Domain Architects and DevOps teams. 

• Understand business context, needs, rules, architecture, organizational structure, culture, capabilities, and processes. 
• Document "as-is" and "to-be" processes and designs, outlining necessary changes for migration (e.g., roadmaps, migration plans). 

• Organize and support DevOps and Quants team workshops and presentations to facilitate design and decision-making (e.g., Architecture Content Meetings, Architecture Review Meetings). 
• Design and develop POC’s which are used to confirm assumptions and are easily transferable into MVP’s by the engineering teams
• Coaching engineers on ING standards and working with them to validate new architectural decisions

• Apply architecture patterns, including Request/Reply, Event-driven architecture (e.g., Kafka), Microservices, and Resilience patterns (e.g., retry strategies). 

• Stay up to date with architecture trends, particularly in the low latency space, well-architected framework and cloud native applications
• Identify and escalate instances of non-compliance with organizational policies, procedures, or regulatory requirements. 

• Ensure alignment between code development and architecture/design guidelines, guiding developers and escalating compliance issues when necessary. 

What you’ll bring to the team

• At least seven years of experience as an engineer or architect. 

• Experience working in highly regulated environments (e.g., financial institutions). 
• Understanding of Financial Markets, pricing, valuation, risk management and the role of pricing engines in front office and risk processes.
• Knowledge of Java and C++ are a must for this role as we are building the next-gen architecture for ING’s pricing engines
• Experience in developing trading/e-trading applications and taking into consideration low-latency requirements

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical topics to diverse audiences. 

• Strong ability to build collaborative partnerships with organizational leaders. 

• A continuous improvement mindset—constantly enhancing your skills while mentoring and training others. 
• Previous experience in roles such as back-end or quantitative analysis engineer

• In-depth knowledge of IT architecture methodologies (e.g., TOGAF), service management processes, and agile work environments. 
• Archimate or other Architecture modelling language are considered a plus.

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