Solutions Architect

Essential Skills

• Deep functional knowledge of treasury processes, with a strong focus on foreign exchange and commodity price risk management, as well as capital markets funding products.
• Proven experience with Wallstreet Suite or similar treasury management systems (TMS) covering configuration, integration, and daily operations.
• Ability to translate strategic directives from Treasury, Risk Management, and Compliance into detailed functional requirements and system designs.
• Strong stakeholder management and vendor transition skills, with the ability to influence global teams without direct authority.
• Practical experience mapping business processes to system functionality while maintaining end-to-end process integrity.
• Solid understanding of financial instruments (FX, commodities, and interest rate derivatives) and their representation for valuation, accounting, and risk treatment in IT systems.
• Experience defining and coordinating interfaces between the TMS, market-data providers, payment systems, and internal banking connections.
• Project and transition management skills to successfully coordinate insourcing, implementation projects, and rollout activities.
• Excellent technical documentation, test planning, and knowledge-transfer capabilities (including user guides, runbooks, and test artifacts).
• Strong English communication skills (German is advantageous), complemented by intercultural sensitivity for effective global stakeholder engagement.

Advantageous Skills

• Hands-on exposure to Wallstreet Suite implementations, administration, or operational support.
• Prior experience insourcing activities from external providers and executing vendor-to-inhouse transitions.
• Familiarity with market-data connectivity, trading platforms, and multi-banking interfaces.
• Basic scripting or automation skills (Python, Bash) to support operational handovers and runbook automation.
• Knowledge of cloud, middleware, database (MS Azure/MS SQL), and DevOps concepts to facilitate seamless collaboration with IT teams.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and production support tooling for financial systems.
• Experience with release, change, cut-over, and fallback planning for complex financial system rollouts.
• Strong MS Office skills for reporting, analysis, and management presentations (Power BI is a plus).
• Understanding of audit, internal control frameworks, and regulatory requirements as they apply to treasury operations.
• Agile delivery experience and the ability to thrive within cross-functional feature teams.

Qualifications and Experience

• University degree in Business, Economics, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a comparable qualification.
• At least 5 years of professional experience in Treasury within a corporate or consulting environment, with demonstrable expertise bridging the business and IT aspects of treasury systems.
• Solid project management experience combined with deep familiarity within the finance functions of an industrial or financial services company, ideally specializing in both business and technical (IT) domains with a strong grasp of financial instrument risk, valuation, and IT representation.