Domain Architect | Financial Markets & Group Treasury – Pricing Area@ING Hubs Romania

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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 the capital markets around the world. Our primary function is to service the needs of ING’s clients and other ING business lines  with products, services, and guidance. FM aims to be a significant player in our market leader and challenger markets, with an additional presence in all the major international markets and specialist expertise in selected emerging markets and products. 
Group Treasury’s (GT) overarching objective is to facilitate business development for our commercial businesses and for our Financial Markets trading.  

 
As Domain Architect for the Pricing tribe, you will shape the target architecture for FM and Trading Risk capabilities 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/reporting components, and downstream integrations 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 the Wholesale Banking Centre of Excellence (COE) Architecture. You translate business vision and strategy into effective enterprise architecture by creating, communicating, and improving the key principles and models that describe the current and future state. You execute the global Business & IT Roadmap process, with centralised designs and (logical) global decompositions, analyses market- and IT-trends and, based on this information, contributing to the strategy of the organization.  

You will:

• Facilitate efficient architecture delivery, and support the FMGT Tribe and the business by providing impactful architecture on 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 and maintain relevant architectural artifacts, including application architectures, road maps, data models and other relevant documentation. 

• Perform Architecture 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 for business, IT, and fellow architects within your expertise. 

What you’ll bring to the team

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

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

• Domain knowledge: excellent understanding of Financial Markets products and its business processes. 

• Experience in working in a highly regulated environment (e.g., financial institutions) 

• Curious mindset: you are up to date with the architecture trends and market development (vendors, other financial institutions). 

• Good understanding of architecture standards and frameworks. 

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

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; 

• Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying complex architecture topics 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 management processes and an agile work environment. 

• Knowledge of and experience with architecture modelling tools like Archimate. 

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