Own project success end-to-end — including milestone tracking, dependency management, risk identification, and ensuring delivery timelines are met with high quality.
Present solutions to technical and business stakeholders.
Guide stakeholders on how to accelerate value through Arcesium.
Advise client technology stakeholders on the best ways to leverage Arcesium’s platform capabilities to achieve their strategic goals.
Run structured discovery sessions to understand workflows and technical constraints and translate these into solution architectures and integration blueprints with clear value framing.
Own project risk identification and escalation.
Continuously identify, assess, and manage risks related to solution design and project delivery.
Rally stakeholders and design effective project plans.
Align internal and client stakeholders toward shared technical goals throughout the project lifecycle.
Design project plans that sequence delivery to realise client value early, engage additional SAs or specialist teams as needed, and maintain a clear view of dependencies and trade-offs.
Champion process improvement and best practices.
Design and validate end-to-end integration architectures connecting Arcesium’s platform with client systems — including order management, portfolio accounting, risk, and reporting infrastructure common in large asset managers, hedge funds, and global custodians.
Define canonical data contracts, API interaction models, and ETL pipeline patterns that ensure reliability, observability, and scalability across high-volume financial data environments.
Rapidly build working prototypes and PoCs — using Python and relevant tooling — to validate approaches, unblock architectural decisions, and demonstrate Arcesium’s platform capabilities in context of a client’s specific use case.
Requirements
Apply deep understanding of Arcesium’s technical and functional capabilities to design solutions that address client workflows and operational pain points.
Provide effective project updates to senior stakeholders internally and at the client, ensuring shared understanding of technical decisions and delivery progress.
Proof of concept and prototyping.
Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with 10–15 years’ experience •
Experience working with or within large financial institutions — banks, asset managers, hedge funds, or prime brokers
Hands-on proficiency in Python; strong grasp of APIs, distributed systems, and ETL pipelines
Familiarity with financial data domains — portfolio accounting, trade data, risk, and reporting
Understanding of financial services regulatory and compliance context •
Experience with DevOps practices and cloud-native architecture patterns
Benefits
Arcesium is an equal opportunity employer.
Contact
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Additional details
Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions.
We constantly innovate our platform and capabilities to meet tomorrow’s challenges, anticipate the risks our clients encounter, and design advanced solutions to help our clients achieve transformational business outcomes.
Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation.
Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities.
We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development.
Arcesium is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to design and deliver complex technical solutions for a portfolio of Strategic Accounts — large financial institutions with sophisticated infrastructure, demanding integration requirements, and high expectations for technical rigor.
This is a deeply technical role focused on translating business
requirements into scalable platform architectures, driving project delivery, and building PoCs and integration blueprints that unlock the full value of Arcesium’s capabilities.
You will be accountable for solution quality, project outcomes, and technical excellence across your assigned accounts, working in close partnership with Product, Engineering, and Operations to ensure successful delivery. What you’ll do:
Participate with internal and external stakeholders to define scope, success criteria, and technical acceptance criteria for projects prioritized by the client. Translate ambiguous