Lead Principal Solution Architect - SimCorp One Value Stream

SimCorp • Toronto, ON

61d • $180,000 - $260,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

WHAT MAKES US, US Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp! At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered. If you like what we’re saying, keep reading! WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US The Value Stream Solution Architect is a senior, client‑facing market specialist with a deep understanding of SimCorp’s target industries, their end‑to‑end value chain, and key pain points. The role is accountable for shaping, governing, and driving adoption of SimCorp One (SC One) Standards across the full Front‑to‑Back (F2B) investment lifecycle—assertively guiding clients toward standard‑first, upgradeable, and evergreen outcomes spanning Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office, Data, and Reporting. Partnering with Sales and delivery leadership, the architect owns end‑to‑end Solutioning, leads Fit‑to‑Standard workshops, articulates trade‑offs (scope, timeline, run costs), and ensures customization is introduced only when truly justified. They maintain overall solution integrity by integrating domain designs into a coherent architecture that embeds service‑management processes, tooling, compliance, security, and operational readiness from day one—while feeding recurring gaps and integration pain points back into Standards Governance and Product Management to continuously strengthen the SimCorp One standard.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience in solution architecture / enterprise architecture / senior implementation architecture, owning cross‑domain (front‑to‑back) designs in complex enterprise platforms.
• Prior client‑facing experience in business consulting and/or SME roles, leading front‑to‑back solution discussions and executive stakeholder alignment in complex asset management environments.
• Functional knowledge of SimCorp Dimension
• Working knowledge of SaaS delivery constraints and operating models, and comfort using Azure DevOps to manage and trace architectural scope (epics/features) and decisions to delivery outcomes.
• Willingness to travel as required.
• Ability to work in the office 2-3 days a week per our hybrid policy.

Responsibilities

• Definition of the SimCorp One Standards: Drive the end‑to‑end definition and integrity of SC One Standards, ensuring consistency across the Standard Scope Document and all governing internal assets (single source of truth). Lead executive‑level standards positioning (in‑standard vs. exceptions) and govern variances via fit assessments, variance logs, and escalation through agreed Standards governance.
• Project scoping & Fit‑to‑Standard: Be accountable for the overall end-to-end solution for clients (across Standard and Custom). Act as the primary sparring partner to Commercial; support the delta assessment and drive disciplined, standards‑led scoping with management‑level client stakeholders. Oversee Fit‑to‑Standard workshops and steer decisions toward standard‑first end‑to‑end outcomes, clearly articulating trade‑offs and commercial implications (scope, timeline, and run costs).
• Design services‑enabled solutions: Design services‑enabled solutions aligned to client outcomes while protecting standard integrity and upgradeability across the end to end solution ,ensure service‑management processes, tooling, compliance, and security are embedded in design and delivery guardrails.
• Collaborate with stakeholders: Translate client and internal business requirements into standardized business processes and measurable end‑to‑end outcomes; partner with other Architects, Standards Guilds, and Client Operations to embed standards and approved variances into Compass delivery plans, acceptance criteria, and BAU transition.
• Leadership and governance: Provide senior leadership across Product/Delivery and Value Streams to drive solution strategy, roadmap input, and the operating model required to scale standards‑based delivery. Act as the bridge between standards governance and execution, ensuring client feedback is converted into actionable standards improvements with clear decisions to closure.
• Protect solution integrity during delivery: Coordinate across value‑stream and consulting teams, run design governance forums, and intervene when cross‑domain conflicts or custom extensions threaten upgradeability or operability.
• Embed service readiness into the architecture: Ensure operational processes, support model, SaaS constraints, security and controls are built into the solution so it is sustainable in Run, not just functional at go‑live.
• Drive continuous improvement of the standard: Capture recurring gaps and integration pain points from implementations and feed them into Standards Governance and Product Management for systematic remediation.
• Design service‑enabled end‑to‑end solutions that account for operational processes, SaaS constraints, and security, ensuring the delivered solution is not only functional but also supportable and upgradeable as a whole.
• Oversee release and quality enablement through the release pipeline, ensuring architecture decisions and scope are compatible with the standardized release process, integrated test framework, and quality gates required to keep the solution upgradeable.
• Lead delivery architecture oversight, coordinating across value teams and consulting teams, running design governance meetings, and intervening when cross‑domain conflicts or proposed custom extensions jeopardize alignment or upgradeability.
• Operate in Azure DevOps as the system of record for delivery, maintaining architectural epics/features, linking decisions/variances to backlog items, and aligning cross‑team work to the agreed end‑to‑end architecture and standards outcomes.
• Translate implementation learnings into standard evolution, capturing recurring cross‑module gaps and integration pain points and driving them back into standards governance and Product Management to strengthen the SimCorp One standard over time.
• Coordinate with the Value Stream Management Office (VMO) to ensure that solution architecture aligns with standard governance processes and ways of working.

Benefits

• SimCorp offers several benefits that might play a significant factor in considering whether to accept a job offer.
• Since SimCorp operates in 30+ offices worldwide, the benefits package may vary from country to country.
• Simcorp follows a global hybrid policy, asking employees to work from the office two days each week while allowing remote work on other days.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed