Principal Solution Architect - CPD, FDSA Functional

Company Overview

Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions. We constantly innovate our platform and capabilities to meet tomorrow’s challenges, anticipate the risks our clients encounter, and design advanced solutions to help our clients achieve transformational business outcomes.

Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation. Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities. We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development.

Arcesium seeks an experienced Solution Architect to join our Client and Partner Development team as a Forward Deployed Solution Architect. As a Forward Deployed Solution Architect, you will bridge the gap between Arcesium platform and clients' business requirements. You will show the customer value quickly and turn insights into scalable and repeatable long-term solutions. Forward Deployed Solution Architects work directly with Arcesium customer stakeholders and Arcesium product teams to solve sophisticated data problems in the investment management businesses.

What You'll Do:

• Guide to the top customer stakeholders (CTO, CDO) on the best ways to accelerate customer data strategy through Arcesium
• Leverage your deep understanding of Arcesium's data architecture, platform modules, and product roadmap, to decompose complex client problems into well-structured, scalable solutions
• Present solutions to customers verbally as well as written proposals, rich materials and illustrations
• Conduct discovery sessions with stakeholders to understand business requirements, and reporting workflows.
• Work with prospective clients to define the scope and success criteria of PoC projects
• Lead various projects including Proof of Concepts, Implementations and beyond
• Manage stakeholder expectations, highlight project risks and mitigations, and lead governance meetings
• Closely work with client teams getting them up to speed on Arcesium’s data flow (ingress/egress) across applications through hands-on training and structured knowledge-sharing.
• Collaborate with Forward Deployed Software Engineers, Forward Deployed Data Strategists, Project Managers and Product teams for project success
• Think critically about suggesting improvements to the process, which may reduce costs, drive product innovation and result in increased sales conversion
• Present and advocate for Arcesium's technology capabilities in sales conversations and demos to increase sales conversion

What You'll Need:

• 8 to 12 years of experience in client-facing roles requiring a high degree on consultative and solutioning skills (e.g., client solutions, professional services and implementations, etc.), providing solutions and building and driving Financial Technology implementations
• Proven ability to drive cross-functional medium & large-scale initiatives across business and technology domains, managing stakeholders at all levels with clarity and confidence
• Strong interpersonal skills and experience building strong internal and external relationships
• Excellent communication and influencing skills to articulate complex solutions clearly and persuasively through written proposals, architectural documentation, and verbal discussion with senior internal stakeholders
• Familiarity with cutting edge cloud solutions and data analysis techniques
• Skills cutting across technology and financial domain

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Arcesium is an equal opportunity employer.