Lead Solution Architect

PROJECT OVERVIEW:

The aim of the project is to ensure compliance to U.S. regulations January 1, 2017. The Project is a part of the renewed US QI (Qualified Intermediary) tax regime. Also includes any derivative instruments which reference to at least one US equity security.

In scope transactions will be subject to a withholding tax on dividend equivalent payments for non-US-resident aliens and IRS reporting (Form 1042 & 1042-s).

Starting 1/1/17 tax must be withheld on all in scope transactions and the first IRS reporting will be done in 1Q18.

Therefore the project will implement a technical solution. New modules need to be developed on our IBM Mainframe in order to gather all required data, calculate and withhold the relevant tax amounts and create the regulatory reporting to IRS, clients and counterparties.

ROLES OVERVIEW:

The Solution Architect analyzes the requirements specification and designs technical solutions. These solutions are developed in agreement with the IT Owner. The solutions should take into consideration the strategic roadmap of the domain, strategic goals of the Client Tax area, architecture standards and guidelines, economic efficiency, quality and feasibility within the project activities. The Solution Architect is accountable for the design and implementation of technical solutions and the documentation.

KEY DELIVERABLES:

- analyze requirements specification, plan and design solutions (including interfaces to other applications) taking into consideration: economic efficiency, quality, feasibility and dependencies
- support project estimates and provide planning input regarding solution engineering and software engineering project activities to the Project Manager
- coordinates the software engineers, define work packages and assign them, ensure high quality of the work products and a consistent end-to-end solution implementation
- act as technical representation & advisor for project and ensure compliance with IT standard & guidelines
- responsible for all project-related solution engineering work products content and quality of the application documentation (eg Software Architecture Document (SAD)
- ensure adherence to application and technology related architectural standards and development policies
- perform design and implementation reviews to ensure architecture and application conforming to standards & guidelines

MANDATORY EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

- university degree or similar education in information technology
- very well experienced (> 8 years) PL/1 and DB2 software developer with knowledge in batch-processing, SQL, XML and MQ Series
- well experienced solution architect (> 4 years), able to lead an on-site and off-shore development team (4-6 software engineers)
- solid theoretical understanding and practical experience of use case modelling (UML)
- good knowledge of Enterprise Architect 9.x

BENEFICIAL EXPERIENCE:

- project management experience
- understanding of financial instruments like options (incl. OTC), warrants, futures, structures products
- well banking-knowhow about tax, namely about FATCA and/or Qualified Intermediary
- Java software engineering knowledge (EJB 3.x, JSF 2.x, JMS, JPA, JUnit)

PERSONALITY:

- Distinctive analytical thinking, well structured, solution-oriented, autonomous, propulsive, proactive, flexible, communicative, insistent, responsibly