
Senior Director, Solutions Architect – Global Wealth Services
PEAK6
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New Jersey • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $220,000 - $275,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Play a multi-faceted role in ensuring that Apex meets the feature, regulatory and client experience demands of our technology services.
- Focus on the expansion of Apex’s Ascend platform to non-US localities while supporting US-based processing.
- Collaborate closely with business SMEs, Relationship Managers, service delivery organization and technology organization.
- Develop cross-functional solutions based upon little direction.
- Engage with client stakeholders to capture business goals and regulatory needs.
- Present solution concepts and gather feedback for localization or compliance adjustments.
- Act as a quarterback for strategic global investments; mentor a team of product, engineering, and testing professionals.
- Ensure architectural governance of the platform while adding localized configurations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience)
- 12+ years of prior work experience in a leadership role in delivering large-scale, complex Financial Services solutions in an agile environment.
- 6+ years of people management experience
- Experience working in international financial services, encompassing multiple markets and regulatory environments.
- Extensive knowledge of Clearance, Custody and Trade Execution processing requirements in Financial Services.
- Understanding of the processing differences versus traditional investment products like equities.
- Demonstrated understanding of global regulatory standards in banking and wealth management (e.g., US SEC/FINRA, UK FCA, EU regulations, APAC regulations).
- Track record of designing solutions to accommodate international tax and reporting requirements for cross-border wealth clients.
- Deep understanding of integration architectures: APIs, microservices, data migration, ETL, and middleware relevant to financial services.
- Experience in building and managing high-performing teams within agile development frameworks.
- Familiarity with agile development methodologies and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
Benefits
- healthcare benefits (medical, dental and vision, EAP)
- competitive PTO
- 401k match
- parental leave
- HSA contribution match
- paid subscription to the Calm app
- generous external learning and tuition reimbursement benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
agile developmentAPIsmicroservicesdata migrationETLmiddlewarefinancial services solutionslocalizationcompliance adjustmentsinternational tax and reporting
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingclient engagementcross-functional teamworkfeedback gatheringarchitectural governance