Functional Architect Risk IT (f/m/d)

Your area of work:

Deutsche Börse Group IT is organized as a product organization. Risk IT is part of the Risk Product, which mainly serves the Risk Management department of Eurex Clearing AG, regulated under EMIR, MaRisk etc. Therefore, the services provided by Risk IT must meet several regulatory standards and provide operational stability whilst keeping up with developments in new technology.

We foster a culture of high standards, freedom, and responsibility. We encourage ownership and trust and have a strong belief in developing talent.

Risk IT develops and maintains several mission critical applications and is launching ambitious projects with broad impact.

Our Functional Architecture team is responsible for evolving the Risk IT system landscape to support business growth initiatives and technical innovation. Working closely with different business and application development teams, our focus is on the end-to-end view of business requirements along the software change management process, understanding their impact and supporting the coordination between the individual Risk IT applications.

We are looking for a functional architect with Quantitative Finance background to join our team in Eschborn who is passionate about finding solutions fitting the Risk IT system landscape, solving problems and who helps us continually improving the functionality of our systems.

Your responsibilities:

Understand the Clearing and Risk system landscape and relevant dependencies and interactions between the individual applications, evolve functional roadmap for the Risk IT system landscape

Create functional designs of software for the pricing and risk management of financial instruments, with focus on derivatives

Closely align with business stakeholders to understand the driver for business requirements and market developments as well as the regulatory framework

Conduct impact analysis of cross-system requirements and create high-level solution designs fitting the existing Risk IT system landscape

Closely align with Risk IT functional analysts to ensure smooth transition to specifications, development and test

Support identification of impact of Risk IT changes on internal and external stakeholders and creation of relevant documentation, support external clients and software vendors in their change process if required

Contribute to cross-product initiatives representing Risk IT in system design discussions with different stakeholders

Your profile:

University degree, preferably in economics, information technology or mathematics or comparable education with professional experience

Good understanding of financial markets and products in different asset classes, ideally also background in quantitative risk management methods and pricing of financial products

Experience in modelling of IT systems and functional analysis as well as system documentation (Confluence)

Passion to find sustainable solutions in system design, strong results orientation and striving for high-quality standards

Excellent communication skills, proficiency in written and spoken English

Open mindset and strong team player

The following skills would be a plus:

Experience in design of microservice architecture

Programming skills

Proficiency in written and spoken German or Czech