Enterprise Architect - Investment Technology

Alpha Group is a leading global consultancy to the financial services industry. Founded in 2003, Alpha has spent over 20 years bringing together specialist, sector-focused strategy, management consulting, and technology expertise to support the entire client transformation lifecycle. Having partnered with more than 1,200 clients worldwide across the asset and wealth management, alternatives, and insurance industries, Alpha is a trusted advisor for complex change programs. We now have over 1,180 consultants working with clients across North America, the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and APAC. In 2024, in recognition of our successful track record and strong growth prospects, Alpha was acquired by Bridgepoint, one of the world's leading quoted private asset growth investors. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Many of our team have built long and fulfilling careers with us, often staying for over a decade. Alpha offers a genuinely rewarding place to work: a meritocratic environment where your career can flourish, and a welcoming culture where you can be yourself, connect with others, and thrive. As we look to the future, we’re excited to be looking for new Alpha colleagues—individuals who are collaborative, innovative, and ambitious. We hope you will join us and help shape the next chapter of our growth journey.

Why join Alpha?

Established yet entrepreneurial – with over 20 years of success and a proven record on the London Stock Exchange, Alpha offers the stability of an established consultancy with the energy of a fast-growth business.

Backed by Bridgepoint – as part of one of the world’s leading growth investors, Alpha benefits from strategic investment that fuels innovation, expansion and new offerings – creating even more opportunity for our people.

Exposure to senior leadership – whether you are in an internal or a client-facing role, you will have the opportunity to work with and learn from the best of the best – high performers at the top of their game.

Learning and growth opportunities – we run tailored training to help you be successful, provide you excellent mentorship, and offer up to 5 days paid training time per year. Perhaps the best training though is the experience on the job – as everyone at Alpha has high responsibility and autonomy, you can develop your skillsets quickly.

Performance-driven culture with real impact – advancement at Alpha is based on impact and capability, not tenure or quotas. You’ll have autonomy and see the tangible difference your ideas and decisions make.

About Alpha Tech Services

Alpha Tech Services represents the technology implementation/business integration arm of the Alpha group, with deep expertise in delivering change and transformation programs centered around Asset & Wealth technology solutions. To clients, we are a trusted partner for creating programs, however, we are so much more to our employees. At Alpha, we pride ourselves in being a meritocratic environment perfect for building a career and meeting great people, as well as a rewarding place to work.

Our Corporate Strategy

Alpha is increasingly establishing ourselves as the leading consultancy to the global asset and wealth management industry. To date, we have grown and been successful by deploying the highest caliber of consulting expertise to our clients. Unlike our competitors, we are:

Sector focused: because we have always focused exclusively on Asset and Wealth Management, we provide deep and focused knowledge that our competitors cannot match

Global: we operate seamlessly across geographies, allowing us to service the largest global clients with the highest caliber of consultant

As technology specialists, we:

Provide knowledgeable resources who can implement, configure and support the major platforms used by our clients

Form a range of partnerships with key vendors to position itself as a preferred implementation partner for major business applications

Assist clients with their journey to the next generation of cloud-based architectures

Help clients to define and implement their future state data architectures

Help clients with bespoke development that complements their core application architecture

Provide knowledgeable and client-focused support for client’s major applications, including upgrades, migrations and business-as-usual issue management

Implement, configure and support key business applications

Build out and implement data management strategies across client organizations

Undertake bespoke development, including of key data interfaces

Role Responsibilities

Alpha FMC is looking for an Enterprise Architect to join our growing team. We are seeking people with strong Front Office Technology skills, along with a personal desire to build a unique, world-class service offering for our clients. The Enterprise Architect presents a strategic perspective on investment technology choices and implementation decisions, leading teams of specialists to deliver technology change across the front office technology construct. They excel in providing SME guidance for front office technology solutions and associated operating models, working with key client stakeholders to maximize value delivery on time and on budget.

Define and lead delivery of enterprise-wide solutions on behalf of our clients, managing teams of experienced architects, developers and technical consultants.

Partner with our clients to translate high level business and technology goals into roadmaps, technology architecture and operating models.

Present to senior or executive client audiences on content-rich topics, while also explaining industry challenges and complex content areas simply, developing understanding in others.

Support our clients in defining and delivering data, technology and resource strategy to meet their business goals.

Use your knowledge of the vendor and tool landscape, both within our client’s technology stacks and the broader market to support definition of the stack across technology and data.

Define and socialize architectural standards within Alpha and at our clients for your areas of expertise.

Input to project definition, resourcing and timelines and objectives within large scale or multiple projects.

Lead project team meetings and communicate effectively with internal and client peers, architects, system analysts, business analysts, project managers, quality control, and across other technology team boundaries, reporting project status as required.

Lead Alpha’s internal IP accelerator development, across multiple areas of expertise.

Take a lead in mentoring and coaching team members.

Role Requirements (Skills, Experience and Qualifications):

7+ years of experience in an implementation or product manager role for a leading front office technology, such as Blackrock Aladdin, Charles River IMS, Bloomberg AIM, Markit ThinkFolio, or FIS Front Arena

Proficiency in SQL and database management, including experience with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, & AWS

Expert Understanding of data modelling, data governance, and data quality management.

Familiarity of portfolio management and trading processes in for asset managers/asset owners across equity, fixed income and listed derivative products

Specialist in two of the following areas (minimum 3 years’ experience): Risk & Performance, Compliance & Regulation, Client Reporting, Non-listed Derivatives Management, Investment Operations & Settlements, Investment Vehicle Setup & Structuring, Investment Data Management

Deep experience of leading small to medium-sized teams in an implementation/consulting environment

Willingness to travel when required

Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail

Excellent interpersonal and client relationship skills

Entrepreneurial approach and commercial awareness

Proven experience in building and deli