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 seeks a talented and motivated Solutions Architect to join our Technology team. This person will draw on their technical expertise to execute cross-cutting solutions that helps integrate and scale the Arcesium technology platform. The successful candidate will be responsible for a variety of critical initiatives that will help Arcesium achieve its strategic goals and growth.
What You'll Do:
- Understand the capabilities of the Arcesium technology platform and design and implement solutions that will help integrate the platform and unlock scale.
- Set up a collaboration framework for internal teams to propose, communicate and execute critical technology initiatives.
- Build and maintain relationships, and create trust with internal stakeholders from the Engineering and Product organizations
- Work with senior management to prepare annual R&D programs and report progress with milestones that add value early and incrementally.
- Manage risks pre-emptively, while using metrics to drive projects forward and escalate risks to Stakeholders.
- Recommending process improvements to support growth and other internal goals.
- Communicate with all stakeholders, prepare project plans, release notes, and conduct regular governance meetings.
- Teaching and mentoring project management skills to peers, building redundancy.
What You'll Need:
- A formal degree in Computer Science or a related discipline with 8+ years of experience in building technology solutions.
- Good understanding of distributed systems architecture, cloud development, API integrations and DevOps philosophy especially knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes.
- Programming experience in Python/Java or any similar programming language is a must
- Good understanding of working with distributed teams using Agile and Kanban.
- Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP.
- Proficiency in using Project Management and Communication tools
- Strong problem-solving skills, the ability to learn quickly, and the openness to try different tools, technologies & concepts
- The ability to be self-motivated and to think independently while being a team player
Arcesium and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law. Note that for us, this is more than just legal boilerplate. We are genuinely committed to these principles, which form an important part of our corporate culture, and are eager to hear from all qualified individuals.
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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.
