Senior Architect

SIX drives the transformation of financial markets.

What sets us apart drives us ahead: between local roots and global relevance, we are a unique blend of tradition and future, of foundation and growth. We value bright minds and inspire them to grow with their ideas. Come and shape the future of finance with us.

 Senior Architect

Warsaw | up to 40% working from home possible | Reference 7055

Do you want to work in a highly dynamic environment? Are you passionate about architecture and technology? Join our growing Architecture Practice as an IT Architect supporting the strategic architecture modeling across our application landscape. Manage and drive the architecture models aligning with business architecture artifacts to describe our current and future state. As we transform the ever-evolving demands of our products and business, we are looking for a professional driven by passion for data, technology transformation, and cross-functional collaboration. Reporting directly to the Head of Architecture, your influence will not just shape the architecture and our engagement across the department, but also help chart the course for our future state.

What You Will Do

• Shape the current and future state of our data landscape, working closely with Data Governance, business and IT architects, data SMEs and stakeholders to drive data evolution and standardization in data models and taxonomy

• Evolve and maintain next-generation technical architecture supporting data at scale across operational, BI, analytics, data science and supporting needs

•  Shape architecture models describing the architecture landscape, target state and roadmaps across Financial Information, working closely with Head of Architecture, business and IT architects, and key stakeholders. Help to shape the future architecture and roadmap for our data systems including intake, aggregation, enrichment, calculation, history and market data streaming

•  Manage the architecture repository and application inventory across the domain, support adherence to IT Governance requirements

•  Uphold our high standards by ensuring alignment with architecture principles, standards and enterprise architecture, and adhering to security, risk, and regulatory guidelines

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a combination of relevant education and experience

•  5+ years experience in an IT solution architecture capacity, ideally in the global financial services sector

• Experience with complex, multi-dimensional data landscapes, and in designing and building scalable data platforms and with contemporary data architecture patterns

• Experience with associated on-premise technologies as well as Cloud services (preferably Microsoft Azure) and architecture patterns for scalable data platforms, including data integration, streaming, data lake and analytics technologies

• Keen understanding of on-premise, Cloud and hybrid architecture and deployment paradigms, and the trade-offs between them

• The aptitude to abstract and model complex problems into a structured set of artifacts

•  Proficiency in English is mandatory, both written and spoken. Knowledge of German is an advantage

•  A vibrant personality, with the capability to foster strong, extended connections across varied teams and cultures