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

About the Position

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

As a Domain Architect for the Pricing tribe, you will shape the target architecture for Financial Markets 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.

Responsibilities

• 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, roadmaps, data models, and other relevant documentation.
• Perform Architecture Management; support delivery of target architecture/solutions by quality decision making.
• Contribute to the COE Architecture organization to improve way of working, tooling, etc.
• Trusted advisor for business, IT, and fellow architects within your expertise.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field/equivalent work experience.
• At least 5 years of experience as an IT architect or similar (IT) function.
• Excellent understanding of Financial Markets products and its business processes.
• Experience in working in a highly regulated environment (e.g., financial institutions).
• Curious mindset: 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, with 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.
• Continuous improvement mindset; 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.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a highly collaborative and flexible environment
• Professional development opportunities
• Impactful work that makes a difference

About the Company

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 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?