Description: 

Team Summary

Arcesium is a financial technology and professional services firm, delivering solutions to some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions, including hedge funds, banks, and institutional asset managers. Expertly designed to achieve a single source of truth throughout a client’s ecosystem, Arcesium’ s cloud-native technology is built to systematize the most complex tasks.

Building on a platform developed and tested by one of the world’s leading investment and technology development firms, the D. E. Shaw group, Arcesium launched as an independent company in 2015. Arcesium received additional equity backing from a second seed client, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, the world’s largest discretionary allocator to hedge funds. In January 2020, J.P. Morgan made a strategic investment in the company.

Arcesium supports more than $675 billion in assets with a staff of over 1800+ software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals.

Arcesium seeks an experienced Solution Architect to join our Client and Partner Development team as a Forward Deployed Solution Architect. As a Forward Deployed Solution Architect, you will bridge the gap between Arcesium’s platform and clients' business requirements. You will show the customer value quickly and turn insights into scalable and repeatable long-term solutions. Forward Deployed Solution Architects work directly with Arcesium customer stakeholders and Arcesium product teams to solve sophisticated data problems in the investment management businesses. 

What You'll Do

• Guide customer top stakeholders (CTO, CDO) on the best ways to accelerate customer data strategy through Arcesium
• Decompose customer problem into component parts, design scalable solution using platform capabilities as building blocks
• Present solutions to customers verbally as well as written proposals, rich materials and illustrations
• Work with prospective clients to define the scope and success criteria of PoC projects
• Lead various projects including Proof of Concepts, Implementations and beyond
• Manage stakeholder expectations, highlights project risks and mitigations, and lead governance meetings
• Collaborate with Forward Deployed Software Engineers, Forward Deployed Data Strategists and Product teams for project success 
• Think critically to suggest improvements to the process, which may reduce costs, drive product innovation and result in increased sales conversion
• Closely work with client developers getting them up to speed on Arcesium’s technical architecture, platform overview, hands-on API training, and data flow across applications
• Present and discuss Arcesium's Technology capabilities in Sales conversations

What You'll Need

• 5 to 9 years of experience in client facing roles requiring a high degree on consultative and solutioning skills (e.g., client solutions, professional services and implementations, etc.), providing technical solutions and building and driving software development
• Software engineering background, with prior hands-on coding experience (preferred languages : Python, Java)
• Strong technology acumen, knowledge of engineering process, design knowledge, and architecture intelligence
• Skills cutting across technology and financial domain
• Ability to drive cross-functional medium & large-scale projects, across business and technology domains; stakeholder management across levels is required
• Strong interpersonal skills and experience building strong internal and external relationships
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to be influential and persuasive with stakeholders
• Familiarity with cutting edge cloud solutions and data analysis techniques