Sr. Risk Technology Solutions Architect recruitment

• Has a mix of Capital Markets, Risk Management and Technology experience, working on projects with a mix of process improvement/transformation, as well as technical aspects of system implementations, preferably at the enterprise level.

• Leads the end-to-end architecture topology design and implementation of multiple project executions for risk management and analytical systems.

• Must be highly specialized and technical expert in enterprise architecture, design and implementation within the financial sector, especially in risk analytics, credit risk workflow, limit management and integration.

• Responsible for project execution as well as technical design implementation effort, including applications framework, technology design patterns, relational database design best practices.

• Helps to ensure architecture and development standards and best practices are followed during architecture, design and implementation phases.

• Leads technical team(s) by leveraging standard development lifecycle methodologies, and specific knowledge of the Rational Unified Process, Agile and iterative development is a plus.

• Coordinates project communications, risks, and issues resolution within technical teams

• Manages and mentors junior risk analysts and database developers globally

• Must have strong programming and scripting experience such as Java, SQL, Unix and/or Excel scripting

• Must have strong database skills including Oracle and working knowledge of business intelligence (BI) tools and data warehousing.

• Must have excellent oral and written communication as this role will interface coordinate with multiple project teams.

• Be Able to communicate to both business and technical audiences, including enterprise risk managers, quantitative analysts and trading desk analysts. 

 Qualifications 

 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related area.   Minimum 10+ years of related experience MBA, MS in Finance or CFA is a big plus.

• Must have "hands-on" expertise and domain experiences in entire lifecycle enterprise system design and implementation - Unix/Linux/Windows. Must be fluent in J2EE, Web 2.0 and SOA frameworks/architectures implementation, as well as fluent in XML and messaging middleware(s) such as IBM MQSeries 

• Must understand relational database design and modeling. Data warehousing skill set is a plus.

• Financial markets background and risk domain knowledge are highly desired.  Must have excellent oral and written communication as this role will interface with both business and multiple IT team members in Boston as well as offshore. 

• Knowledge or experience with industry standard comprehensive risk and compliance framework/solution for market and credit risk such as Algorithmics, Risk Metrics, Murex, Calypso and etc, is a big plus.

• Knowledge or experience with implementation of sell-side market and credit risk workflow and control, and security pricing/valuation for foreign exchange, fixed-income, and/or equity derivatives is a plus.

• Knowledge or experience with risk management concepts – market risk VaR, credit spread VaR, Credit PFE/CVA, risk sensitivities, stress testing and backtesting

• Financial modeling experience, including the use and support for tools such as MATLAB, SAS or Bloomberg, is preferred.