Solutions Architect

Summary

Andersen is hiring a Solutions Architect for a UAE financial institution. The project involves building a cloud-native back-office system to support brokerage, trading features, and scalable digital services.

The customer is a UAE-based public financial institution headquartered in Abu Dhabi. Regulated by the Securities and Commodities Authority, it offers a comprehensive range of financial services, including brokerage, asset management, corporate finance advisory, and market making. Through strategic partnerships in the GCC region and a focus on digital innovation – such as a proprietary trading app and expanded access to global markets – the customer continues to strengthen its market position and deliver value-driven, sustainable financial solutions.

The project is a strategic initiative to replace the back-office system supporting retail and institutional brokerage as well as market-making. The new cloud-native solution will offer scalability and flexibility while enabling features like copy trading, algorithmic trading, and a brokerage-as-a-service model.

Responsibilities

• Analyzing if software solutions successfully address business issues.
• Collaborating with other team members to determine functional and non-functional requirements.
• Developing the technical part of the Business Requirements.
• Documenting with attention to system integration and feasibility.
• Advising the team and Product Owner on the questions of development and deployment.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Solutions Architect, with strong expertise in GAP analysis, for 4+ years in the fintech domain.
• Experience as a solutions architect or an IT business analyst, or a technical solutions consultant in trading, brokerage, market making business setups for 1+ years.
• Strong background in Audit, Consulting and Discovery (High-level Design) activities, including gathering requirements and defining solution scope.
• Recent and actual experience in designing cloud-native solutions with modern techstacks, with solid grip on architecture patterns, quality attributes and metrics that target availability, security, scalability, resilience, performance, maintainability and modifiability.
• Hands-on experience in selecting vendor solutions (COTS) and mapping them to existing system landscapes and Business requirements
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking abilities.
• Level of English – Upper-Intermediate or above.

Desired skills

• Familiarity with a variety of vendor products used in trading, brokerage, market making.
• Hands-on experience with BIAN and/or specialized/custom reference frameworks for trading, brokerage and market making
• Experience working in a consulting firm/project.
• Public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc) Solutions Architect level of knowledge and/or certification.
• Experience in designing BaaS/SaaS solutions.

Reasons to join us

• Experience in teamwork with leaders in FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, and others. Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, BNP Paribas, Ryanair, Mercedes, TUI, Verivox, Allianz, T-Systems, etc..
• The opportunity to change the project and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain.
• Job conditions – you can work both fully remotely and from the office or can choose a hybrid variant.
• Guarantee of professional, financial, and career growth! The company has introduced systems of mentoring and adaptation for each new employee.
• The opportunity to earn up to an additional 1,000 USD per month, depending on the level of expertise, which will be included in the annual bonus, by participating in the company's activities.
• Access to the corporate training portal, where the entire knowledge base of the company is collected and which is constantly updated.
• Bright corporate life (parties / pizza days / PlayStation / fruits / coffee / snacks / movies).
• Certification compensation (AWS, PMP, etc).
• Referral program.
• English courses.
• Private health insurance and compensation for sports activities.

Join us!