Location: SimCorp Global
Overview
As a Consulting Solution Architect, you will serve as a trusted advisor throughout consulting engagements — helping clients shape feasible solution options, leading or supporting the design of custom, high value solutions, and ensuring strong domain integrity aligned with the broader SimCorp One solution design. You will play a central role in supporting scalable, high quality custom implementations and contribute to consistency and excellence across our Consulting organization.
You will collaborate closely with colleagues across Consulting, Product Management, and Value Streams to ensure our custom solutions remain both feasible and aligned to SimCorp standards. You will also help advance our practices, strengthen our knowledge base, and mentor the next generation of solutioning talent within SimCorp.
Why this role is important to us
As SimCorp embarks on the SimCorp One journey, the Consulting Solution Architect plays a critical role in enabling the Consulting organization to deliver high quality, scalable custom solutions. Consulting Solution Architects ensure that custom client requirements are shaped and delivered with strong domain integrity, consistency, and alignment with SimCorp’s delivery methodologies (Compass) and the SimCorp One solution.
You will:
* Influence key architectural decisions in strategic and complex consulting projects
* Strengthen our consulting methodologies and enablement efforts
* Contribute to the evolution of consulting solution best practices and patterns
Our new Consulting Solution Architects bring deep domain experience within the scope of the Investments Sub-Services Line and the consulting skills needed to act as trusted advisors to internal and external clients.
This is a global position, with potential locations across SimCorp offices worldwide. International travel may be required based on client needs. The role reports to the Global Practice Lead.
What you will be responsible for
Investment Domain — Expertise within one or more domains
* Alternatives/Private Assets
* Assets – Private Equity, Private Debt, Real Estate
* Lifecycle – Deal flow, Fundraising, Reporting, Investment Monitoring, Performance, Fund Administration, Accounting
* Portfolio Construction / Modelling – Ideation to Monitoring
* Assets – Listed Fixed Income, Listed Equities, Listed Derivatives, OTC Derivatives, ETFs, ABS/MBS, etc.
* Decision Support Workflows – Risk, Performance, Valuations, Advanced Analytics, Scenario Analysis, Derivatives Hedging
* Research, Investment Planning, Investment Mandates
* Portfolio Management, Compliance and Trading
* Order Management Lifecycle – Targeting/Switching, Cash Management, Rebalancing, etc.
* Pre-trade and post-trade compliance
* Trading – Connectivity via FIX, Execution, TCA, System Performance, etc.
Global Practice Ownership
* Own the Global consulting practice within your domain including ownership of the global consulting artifacts for your specific domain.
* Contribute with structured feedback into standards evolution.
* Has strong commercial acumen and understands the impact of decisions when closing deals
* Shape and define our consulting practice within your domain.
* Support the enablement of consultants to deliver custom client solutions with high quality, consistency, and aligned with the SimCorp One solution.
Scoping & Advisory
* Lead or support domain-specific consulting scoping during appropriate sales and early project phases for complex and strategic consulting engagements
* Act as the key advisor and influencer for solution options and custom feasibility
* Collaborate with Sales, Solution Engineers, Engagement Leads, Product Management, and Value Streams
* Define and validate custom architecture and design in complex and strategic client projects
* Ensure custom build quality and provide ongoing quality assurance
* Resolve domain-specific challenges in collaboration with consulting, value streams, and product teams
Knowledge Enablement
* Document and disseminate domain knowledge and best practices
* Support onboarding and capability building within Consulting
* Collaborate on cross-functional learning initiatives
Collaboration & Influence
* Work closely with Product Management, Value Streams, and project teams
* Represent your domain in discussions on solution direction and domain challenges
* Interface with clients, including senior stakeholders, on custom solution matters
* Advocate roadmap priority for repeated customizations
Mentoring & Community Leadership
* Coach consultants and aspiring architects
* Help grow solution maturity within Consulting
* Influence cross-domain architecture discussions and knowledge sharing
What we value
Most importantly, you can see yourself contributing and thriving in the position described above. How you gained the skills needed for doing that is less important. We expect you to excel at several of the following skills and be able to - and interested in - learning the rest.
* Relevant degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics or a relevant Business degree
* At least 10+ years of proven experience designing and implementing SimCorp Dimension solutions
* Deep business knowledge within the Investment Front to Middle Office domain – Post IBOR to Post Trade
* Understanding of our clients’ general business processes and operating model
* International experience and global mindset
* Have been involved in several SimCorp Dimension implementations from the early stages of the project
* Ability to build relationships, drive discussions and impact stakeholders when required
* Engagement in partnering with various parts of the SimCorp organization
* Proactiveness, creativeness and commercial mindedness with a global perspective
* Proficiency in English
Benefits
SimCorp offers several benefits that might play a significant factor in considering whether to accept a job offer. Since SimCorp operates in 30+ offices worldwide, the benefits package may vary from country to country.
Simcorp follows a global hybrid policy, asking employees to work from the office two days each week while allowing remote work on other days.
Next steps
Please click below to apply. For further information about the position, please contact Raja Sundaram, Global Practice Lead Investments and Alternatives or Hanna Brzozka, Lead Talent Acquisition Partner on hanna.brzozka@simcorp.com to learn more about the vacancy, recruitment process or SimCorp internal transfer policy.
Please note that only applications sent through our Workday system will be processed.
In addition to submitting your CV, please add a short Cover Letter and 10-minute video motivating your interest elaborating on:
* What is your vision for yourself as a Solution Architect?
* What do you hope to accomplish?
* How will you work together with the GPL and other Solution Architects to advance both your and SimCorp’s visions?
We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.
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Who we are
For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 4,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds.
SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for our clients.
SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, without regard to race, gender, age, disability, or any other protected status under applicable law. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients.
For Toronto only: The salary range for this position is $193,440 – 290,160 CAD annual. Base pay may vary based on factors such as years of experience, skills and qualifications. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and benefits including health and dental care, time off and Group RRSP/TFSA.
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