About CLS:
CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem. Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective. Trillions of dollars’ worth of currency flows through our systems each day.
Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies. We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use.
CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle – whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.
Our ambition to make a positive difference starts with our people. Our values underpin everything that we do at CLS and define our working environment:
- Pivotal purpose
- Trusted guardian
- Targeted innovation
- Facilitate connections
- Delivering excellence
- Inclusive culture
Job information:
- Functional title – Data Architect
- Department – Technology
- Corporate level – Vice President
- Report to – Director
- Location - London, onsite 2 days per week
Job Overview:
Data Architect plays a key role in CLS’s architecture / technology division. Role requires broad knowledge in data architecture and design, with a focus on OLTP, Data Warehouse ,Data Reporting, API capability and other database interfaces. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements, providing technical leadership, and ensuring the design meet CLS architectural principles and security standards. Person should be strong technologist very aware of current developments in technology spectrum.
Key Responsibilities:
- Author High Level Solution Design, Solutions Overview and Conceptual Architectures.
- Design and architect solutions based on technical and business requirements.
- Develop and document architecture blueprints and best practices.
- Provide technical leadership on data architecture, data integration and data management to ensure Data Product best practices are supported and implemented effectively.
- Act as a lead Architecture on projects
- Contribute to the development & management of Data Strategy
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of Architecture within CLS
- Contribute to product roadmaps & reference architectures
Key Competencies
- Proficient in data architecture, engineering, data platforms and analytics with a string track record of successful projects and in-depth knowledge of industry best practices.
- Strong Experience in databases (Relational/ NoSQL), Data Integration/ Processing and API design
- Experience developing and delivering data solutions leveraging on-premises and cloud components (AWS, AZURE).
- Ability to communicate solutions to other stakeholders
- Good knowledge of Risk management
- Work closely with other architecture disciplines including Enterprise, Infrastructure and Security, as well Engineering and Operations
- Provide technical guidance to team members and stakeholders.
- Identify & recommend opportunities for efficiency.
- Stay updated on new features and capabilities & best practices.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and manage diversity.
- Share knowledge with the team and contribute to the organization's learning culture.
Qualifications:
- Proven experience Data Architecting solutions.
- Excellent understanding of reporting and data warehouse systems incl. various industry standard data models
- Industry recognized certifications (such as Togaf, AWS Certified Solutions Architect) in conjunction with application in previous roles are highly desirable.
- Strong understanding of application architecture concepts, principles and best practices.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Preferred Skills:
- Experience in Database technologies - MS SQL Server, DB2 , Oracle, Postgres, AWS RDS/ Redshift
- Experience in Data Integration - Messaging (IBM MQ) , AWS DMS, Kafka
- Experience in Data Visualisation - MicroStrategy, Microsoft Power BI
- Knowledge of authentication methodologies like OAUTH / Okta .
- Knowledge of Operating systems (Windows and Linux)
- Knowledge of cloud architectures.
- Ability to assess and recommend third-party tools and services to complement AWS offerings.
- Stakeholder management.
- Knowledge of security design
Desirable Skills:
- Experience of post-trade Foreign Exchange and Market Infrastructure Payment systems desirable.
Our commitment to employees:
At CLS, we celebrate inclusion and consider this to be one of our strongest assets. We are committed to fostering an environment in which everyone feels comfortable to be who they are, and inclusion is valued. All employees have access to our inclusive benefits, including:
- Holiday - UK/Asia: 25 holiday days and 3 ‘life days’ (in addition to bank holidays). US: 23 holiday days.
- 2 paid volunteer days so that you can actively support causes within your community that are important to you.
- Generous parental leave policies to ensure you can enjoy valuable time with your family.
- Parental transition coaching programmes and support services.
- Wellbeing and mental health support resources to ensure you are looking after yourself, and able to support others.
- Employee Networks (including our Women’s Forum, Black Employee Network and Pride Network) in support of our organisational commitment to embrace and always be learning more about inclusivity.
- Hybrid working to promote a healthy work/life balance, enabling employees to work collaboratively in the office when needed and work from home when they don’t.
- Active support of flexible working for all employees where possible.
- Monthly ‘Heads Down Days’ with no meetings across the whole company.
- Generous non-contributory pension provision for UK/Asia employees, and 401K match from CLS for US employees.
- Private medical insurance and dental coverage.
- Social events that give you opportunities to meet new people and broaden your network across the organisation.
- Annual flu vaccinations.
- Discounts and savings and cashback across a wide range of categories including health and retail for UK employees.
- Discounted Gym membership – Complete Body Gym Discount/Sweat equity program for US employees.
- All employees have access to Discover – our comprehensive learning platform with 1000+ courses from LinkedIn Learning.
- Access to frequent development sessions on a number of topics to help you be successful and develop your career at CLS.
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