Senior Solution Architect - Capital Markets

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG's shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.

In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization's extensive global network. The Group's operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC MANUBANK, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $202,000.00 and $237,000.00. The specific salary offered to an applicant will be based on their individual qualifications, experiences, and an analysis of the current compensation paid in their geography and the market for similar roles at the time of hire. The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees.

Role Description

We are seeking an expert Senior Solution Architect - Director to govern and scale our global integration fabric, real-time message routing ecosystems, and workflow engine. In this role, you will define the technology blueprint that unites Front, Middle, and Back-Office (FOMOBO) platforms across the enterprise.
You will lead the creation of our event driven architecture required for data-driven reporting pipelines, transitioning legacy interfaces into a unified, cloud-centric mesh. Your strategic oversight will cover real-time event fabrics (Apache Kafka/Amazon MSK), and cloud-native lakehouses (Databricks). This role ensures that continuous transactional workflows instantly translate into scalable, resilient , low latency business-ready pub-sub driven trade workflow and reporting capabilities.

Role Objectives
Define Enterprise Integration Strategy: Establish the macro-architectural roadmaps and patterns for the firm's real-time messaging, API ecosystems, and cloud data platforms across Front, Middle, and Back-Office systems.
Govern the Real-Time Event Fabric: Own the design patterns for our globally distributed, cloud-centric Apache Kafka pub-sub architecture, overseeing partition design, event-sourcing strategies, and high-volume stream topologies.
Architect API & Hybrid Connectivity: Guide the deployment of containerized services as our primary enterprise integration layer, establishing API gateway standards, contract-first design policies, and secure microservices orchestration patterns.
Drive Cross-Domain Data Reporting & Analytics: Design high-throughput transactional and analytics pipelines, enabling seamless real-time operational reporting for Front Office trading, Middle Office risk calculation, and Back Office settlement desks.

Qualifications and Skills
Experience: 15+ years of enterprise architecture experience within Investment Banking, Capital Markets, or Global Financial Institutions, with deep exposure across FOMOBO environments.
Mastery of Streaming & Pub-Sub Architecture: Expert-level knowledge of Apache Kafka (or Amazon MSK) deployed on public cloud environments (AWS/Azure). Must understand schema registry governance, cluster federation, and performance optimization for extreme scale.
API Management & ESB Expertise: Proven track record of managing enterprise-wide API deployments and enterprise service bus (ESB) workflows using Mulesoft or comparable high-performance API platforms.
Cloud-Centric Analytics and Data Platforms:
o Extensive production architecture experience designing lakehouse foundations on Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables).
o In-depth understanding of standard OLTP engines (PostgreSQL, Aurora) and cloud OLAP database patterns (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks Serverless SQL).
Data-Driven Insight Systems: Experience structuring complex data schemas to simultaneously satisfy low-latency operational reporting and long-tail regulatory or trend analytics.
Preferred Strategic Skills
Strong familiarity with global financial regulations and data privacy frameworks impacting trading data.
Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect, or Databricks Certified Enterprise Architect.
Active experience driving large-scale digital transformation initiatives or moving monolithic banking systems to cloud-native event meshes.

Additional Requirements

SMBC's employees participate in a Hybrid workforce model that provides employees with an opportunity to work from home, as well as, from an SMBC office. SMBC requires that employees live within a reasonable commuting distance of their office location. Prospective candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid work schedule during their interview process. Hybrid work may not be permitted for certain roles, including, for example, certain FINRA-registered roles for which in-office attendance for the entire workweek is required.

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