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.
Position Summary
Arcesium seeks a Principal Solution Architect to join our Client Success, Solutions and Services (CS3) team. CS3 works directly with clients to define requirements and success criteria, then coordinates with Arcesium engineering, product, and finance teams to deliver results efficiently and transparently. Our projects span urgent critical incidents, relationship management, and long-running client-initiated engagements across their full lifecycle.
As a Solution Architect, you will own outcomes, not just tasks. The role is hands-on: you are expected to understand the technical and financial details of your projects, read platform code, write API examples, and perform in-depth data analysis. You will represent Arcesium in technical discussions with clients, which requires detailed knowledge and accurate communication.
This is a high-visibility role - your work will be noticed by our clients and senior management.
What You'll Do:
- Design and implement solutions that will help integrate the Arcesium platform with client workflows and unlock scale.
- Identify, track, and resolve blockers across engineering, product, and client teams, escalating risks early and always maintaining forward momentum.
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, establishing yourself as a trusted point of contact.
- Lead project meetings, driving alignment across technical and non-technical participants through deep understanding of the problem space and proposed solutions.
- Recommend and implement process improvements that reduce manual effort, improve resilience, and support long-term operational scalability.
What You'll Need:
- Exceptional relationship-building skills and the ability to form trust quickly and maintain productive working relationships across diverse teams and organizational levels.
- A proven track record of unblocking complex, multi-stakeholder workstreams and driving them through to completion.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects, maintain detailed tracking, and anticipate risks before they become issues.
- Strong functional knowledge of middle and back-office technology platforms, including an understanding of how workflows, integrations, and system components fit together.
- Strong meeting presence with the ability to command a room, articulate complex problems clearly, and drive alignment across technical and business audiences.
- The ability to be self-motivated and to think independently while being a team player.
The expected annual base salary for this position is $170,000 - $200,000. Our compensation package includes variable compensation in the form of a year-end bonus, guaranteed in the first year of hire, benefits including medical and prescription drug coverage, and 401k contribution matching.
The applicable annual base salary paid to a successful applicant will be determined based on multiple factors including without limitation the nature and extent of prior experience and educational background.
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Recruiting Security
Emails from genuine Arcesium recruiters who are employees of the company will always come from the @arcesium.com domain. In some cases, you may also be contacted by independent search firms engaged to recruit on our behalf; emails from their employees should always come from their firm's applicable domain. We'll never ask for your banking information or any payment as part of the recruiting process. If something seems off or you're contacted by an unexpected third party, please reach out to us at [email protected] (US/UK), [email protected] (India) or [email protected] (Portugal/Sweden).
Arcesium is an equal opportunity employer.
Skills Required
- Proven track record unblocking complex, multi-stakeholder workstreams and driving them to completion
- Exceptional relationship-building skills and ability to form trust quickly across diverse teams
- Ability to read platform code and write API examples
- Experience performing in-depth data analysis
- Strong functional knowledge of middle and back-office technology platforms, integrations, and workflows
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and anticipate risks
- Strong meeting presence; ability to articulate complex problems and drive alignment across technical and business audiences
- Self-motivated, independent thinker and team player
Arcesium Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Arcesium and has not been reviewed or approved by Arcesium.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, vision, mental‑health programs, and protections for life, accident, and disability. The scope indicates strong support for physical and mental well‑being.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) and a pension alongside financial protections such as life and disability insurance. These elements point to meaningful long‑term financial security within total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is characterized as generous, with extended maternity and supportive paternity leave in some locations, plus family and adoption assistance. This family focus complements broader time‑off and caregiving supports.
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What We Do
Arcesium is a global financial technology and professional services firm, delivering post-investment and enterprise data management solutions to some of the world's most sophisticated financial institutions, including hedge funds, banks, institutional asset managers, and private equity firms. Expertly designed to achieve a single source of truth throughout a client's ecosystem, Arcesium's cloud-native technology is built to systematize the most complex workflows and help clients achieve scale. Building on a platform developed and tested by investment and technology development firm, the D. E. Shaw group, Arcesium was launched as a joint venture with Blackstone Alternative Asset Management. J.P. Morgan, another large client, later joined as our third partner. Today, Arcesium services over $679 billion in global client AUM with a staff of over 1,500 software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals.
