Principal Solution Architect

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 customer top stakeholders (CTO, CDO) on the best ways to accelerate customer data strategy through Arcesium
• Decompose customer problem into component parts, design scalable solution using platform capabilities as building blocks
• Present solutions to customers verbally as well as written proposals, rich materials and illustrations
• 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, highlights project risks and mitigations, and lead governance meetings
• Collaborate with Forward Deployed Software Engineers, Forward Deployed Data Strategists and Product teams for project success 
• Think critically to suggest improvements to the process, which may reduce costs, drive product innovation and result in increased sales conversion
• Closely work with client developers getting them up to speed on Arcesium's technical/data architecture, platform overview, hands-on API training, data flow (ingress/egress) across applications
• Present and discuss Arcesium's Technology capabilities in Sales conversations, demos etc.

What You'll Need:

• 8 to 10 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 technical solutions and building and driving software development
• Software engineering background, with prior hands-on coding experience (preferred languages: Python, Java, writing medium/complex SQL queries)
• Strong technology acumen, knowledge of engineering process, design knowledge, and architecture intelligence
• Skills cutting across technology and financial domain
• Ability to drive cross-functional medium & large-scale projects, across business and technology domains; stakeholder management across levels is required
• Strong interpersonal skills and experience building strong internal and external relationships
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to be influential and persuasive with stakeholders
• Familiarity with cutting edge cloud solutions and data analysis techniques 

Arcesium and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law. Note that for us, this is more than just a legal boilerplate. We are genuinely committed to these principles, which form an important part of our corporate culture, and are eager to hear from extraordinarily well qualified individuals having a wide range of backgrounds and personal characteristics.