Solution Architect, Capital Markets and Exchanges, Google Cloud
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of Capital Markets and Exchanges experience designing and architecting solutions for issuance, clearing, trading, settlement, custody, reference, and market data.
- 4 years of experience in software or data engineering with one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, or Java), including experience with design patterns, testing frameworks, and API contract design.
- Experience in Financial Services, including experience with the regulatory and operational rigors of clearing, settlement, or custody.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience designing and implementing smart contracts within regulated Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs). This includes managing the life-cycle of tokenized assets.
- Experience working in a high-maturity DevOps culture (trunk-based development, automated testing, blue/green deployments).
- Proficient in BigQuery, Vertex AI, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub.
- Understanding of data residency, encryption at rest/transit (CMEK), and "Explainable AI" requirements in banking.
- Strong understanding of relational, NoSQL, and analytical data modeling (Star Schema, Data Vault, etc.).
- Ability to independently drive the discovery phase, moving from a vague business problem to a structured PRD and a working technical demo.
About the job
In this role, you will operate within the Innovation team, the Capital Markets and Exchanges Solution Architect collaborates with clients to transform initial concepts into reality. You will collaborate in strategic business transformations through designing and architecting cutting-edge solutions across all aspects of trade processing: clearing, issuance, settlement, custody and post trade processing. You will be a trusted advisor to our customers in helping them shape their future through the latest Technologies, tokenization platforms and the flexibility of scaling cloud to enable latency sensitive trading with your deep knowledge of the business, current and horizon technologies.Germany: €148000 - €151000 (EUR) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Design and architect solutions such as scalable position-keeping services, hybrid financial instruments handling, low latency and stream solutions for trading exchanges.
- Evaluate and integrate solutions with modern data foundations, including Relational Databases, Data Lake Houses, and real-time streaming architectures, ensuring data pipelines are optimized for AI retrieval, agentic workflows, and real-time financial insights.
- Partner with client leads(business user) to create Product Requirement Documents (PRDs), clearly defining Critical User Journeys (CUJs) and success metrics.
- Create clear technical guides to ensure a seamless hand-off from Point of Contact to engineering teams.
- Build reusable Proof-of-Concept and MVP code, documentation, presentations demonstrating reworld solutions using Google Cloud Platform.
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