Functional Architect Risk IT (f/m/d)

Frankfurt am Main

Your career at Deutsche Börse Group

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

Why Deutsche Börse Group?

We are committed to providing a work environment where everyone feels welcome and can reach their full potential. Our standards go far beyond simply matching candidates with the right position.

Mobility

We enable you to move freely with our job tickets, job (e-)bikes and free parking opportunities.

Work environment

Collaboration, communication, or deep focus – in our modern office buildings you will find the perfect work environment. Free drinks and food and meal allowances included.

Health and wellbeing

We care for your health and wellbeing and besides various health promotion measures we offer you a group accident insurance and additional insurance offers at discounted rates.

Financial stability

We provide financial stability by offering attractive salaries, company pension schemes, participation in our Group Share Plan, as well as bonuses, subsidies and discounts.

Hybrid work

Collaborate and exchange on-site or work remotely several days a week in line with business needs and local regulations. Our hybrid working model combines the best of both worlds.

Flexible working hours

We want your job to fit your life situation and offer flexible working time models, childcare allowance, or the possibility to study alongside your job.

Internationality

Our market infrastructures are globally connected. Working with us means collaborating with like-minded colleagues across over 60 locations from more than 100 nations.

Development

We promote individual development by offering internal development programmes, mentoring, further education and training budgets.