Solution Architect (Collateral Management)

Our consultancy client are looking for an architect with deep experience in Collateral Management and a working knowledge of asset servicing and settlements to be able to deliver an end-to-end solution, with the ability to translate business processes into IT functional components and solutions. Be able to bring relevant/related experience in capital markets, trade settlement, counterparty risk, etc, who have experience of the industry, and be able to understand the different processes and terms, and sorts of solutions/tech involved within this remit.

You will need:

• Extensive functional and technical knowledge of post trade processing, specifically collateral management, margining (IM and VM), and settlement, ideally gained at a market infrastructure (CSD, ICSD, custodian) or a large sell side or buy side institution.
• Exposure to triparty collateral management, collateral optimisation, and eligibility/substitution processes since this maps closely to the end clients Collateral Highway proposition.
• An asset servicing background, covering corporate actions, income processing, and the securities life cycle events that interact with collateral positions, given asset servicing was specifically called out alongside funds experience.
• Funds industry knowledge, including how fund structures use collateral for derivatives exposure and liquidity management, since this was named explicitly as a requirement.

This role will be inside IR35 and will require 8 days a month on site in London with some European travel also very occassonally.