Job Description

Division: Group Business Solutions (GBS)

Euroclear is investing in the modernization of its Corporate Support applications across Finance, HR, Legal, Risk, and Compliance. As a Lead Solution Architect, you will play a key role in defining and delivering innovative, secure, and scalable solutions that support these essential business functions in their different initiatives.

This is an opportunity to influence strategic architecture, guide talented engineering teams, and contribute to the evolution of Euroclear’s enterprise wide technology landscape.

The role

As a Lead Solution Architect, you will:

Design high impact solutions

• Create practical, cost effective, and end-to-end solution designs aligned with business goals and nonfunctional requirements.
• Own the architecture of complex initiatives from early concept to delivery.

Be a strategic advisor

• Recommend the right products, platforms, and technologies to achieve the target architecture.
• Provide expert input in tenders, solution assessments, and vendor evaluations.

Guide teams & ensure alignment

• Act as the bridge between enterprise architects, solution designers, engineers, and business teams.
• Mentor solution younger solution architects, designers and engineers, ensuring solutions remain aligned to enterprise architecture standards, principles, and target domain architectures.

Collaborate closely with stakeholders

• Work with Business Architects, Business Analysts, and domain experts to refine requirements and translate them into robust end-to-end designs.
• Partner with security experts to embed the right controls, ensure compliance, and design secure solutions.

Drive delivery excellence

• Provide architectural support during implementation, clarifying design intent and validating technical decisions.
• Contribute to estimates, planning, technical scope definition, and risk assessments.
• Document architectural decisions and ensure traceability and transparency.

Support governance & compliance

• Escalate deviations from standards where necessary and support decision-making in governance bodies.
• Ensure solutions comply with regulatory, audit, and data protection requirements.

Build and strengthen architecture practices

• Contribute to reusable patterns, reference architectures, and knowledge assets.
• Actively participate in communities of practice and collaborate on best practices.
• Lead or coordinate other Solution Architects; train and mentor new team members.

Champion innovation & future ready architecture

• Stay ahead of industry trends, evaluate emerging technologies, and bring forward recommendations.
• Ensure solutions are operationally ready, resilient, maintainable, and sustainable over their lifecycle.

Lead the solution architecture within the Corporate Support area

• Manage and coordinate the overall demand for solution architecture for the area
• Onboard and coach more junior team members within the area

What You Bring

We are looking for someone who has:

• 10+ years of experience in IT, including roles in solution architecture or as a senior functional consultant.
• Strong understanding of various corporate support areas (Finance, HR, Compliance, Legal, Risk, Supply Chain…).
• Experience in the banking sector, ideally in the Compliance area and/or with major software packages (Oracle eBusiness Suite, Tagetik, Ariba, PeopleSoft, NetReveal…).
• Experience designing integrated solutions across complex enterprise landscapes.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to break down complex problems into actionable solutions.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills — able to “sell” architecture decisions.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks like TOGAF, IAF, OAA (a strong plus).

Why Join Us

As Lead Solution Architect, you will:

• Shape the future of Euroclear’s Corporate Support architecture.
• Work on impactful, strategic initiatives.
• Engage with experts across technology and business.
• Influence standards, patterns, and practices across the organization.
• Grow in an architecture community that values collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

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Why join us

Embark on your new adventure at Euroclear, and work at the heart of the global capital markets. We connect over 2,000 financial institutions across the globe. As an open and resilient infrastructure, we contribute to the stability of the financial markets. We help clients cut through complexity, lower costs, and mitigate risks of financial transactions. At Euroclear, we have the clear ambition to use our key role to facilitate and accelerate a sustainable global financial system.

What We Offer:

• Work closely with inspiring, supportive and engaged colleagues from more than 80 different countries.
• Practice your talents in a highly professional international environment.
• Join a learning and development environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing and training.
• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.

Ways of working

Find your own optimal balance within our hybrid working model, where you can connect at the office 8 days a month and also benefit from remote working.

Great Place to Work for All

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates diversity and strives to be a Great Place to Work for All. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment, regardless of any aspect that makes them unique (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, disability, ...). If you need any specific accommodation due to disability or any other reason, you can let the recruiter know during your application process. Our values guide how we work together and shape our future: Our mission and values - Euroclear