Solution Architect

Euronext is the leading pan-European market infrastructure shaping capital markets for future generations. Its mission is to connect European economies to global capital markets to accelerate innovation and sustainable growth. Euronext is located in 18 countries across Europe, the US, and Asia with regulated exchanges in Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal. The group has expanded organically and externally with a revenue growing from 458 million in 2014 to 1.5 billion in 2022 with 2200 employees and 55 nationalities.

With close to 1900 listed issuers and around 6.5 trillion in market capitalisation as of end June 2023, it has an unmatched blue-chip franchise and a strong diverse domestic and international client base as well as a large Tech companies community Euronext Tech Leaders. Euronext closely accompanies corporates thanks to its pre-IPO programmes and a full suite of innovative corporate services. Euronext operates regulated and transparent equity and derivatives markets, one of Europe's leading electronic fixed income trading markets and is the largest center for debt and funds listings in the world. Its total product offering includes Equities, FX, Exchange Traded Funds, Warrants & Certificates, Bonds, Power Derivatives, Commodities, Advanced Data Services, and Indices.

The Group provides a European multi-asset clearing house through Euronext Clearing and custody and settlement services through Euronext Securities central securities depositories in Denmark, Italy, Norway, and Portugal. Euronext also leverages its expertise in running markets by providing technology, corporate, and data services to third parties.

Euronext is engaged in an ambitious ESG policy translated into its Fit for 1.5 commitment to net zero supported by SBTI approved targets.

Euronext Corporate Solutions

Euronext Corporate Solutions is at the core of Euronext's strategic plan Innovate for Growth 2027. It has delivered 50m of revenue in 2024 and has been growing double-digit CAGR since 2020, being one of the most important growth engines of the Group. With the planned acquisition of Admincontrol expected to close in 2nd quarter of 2025, it will almost double in size with expected revenues of 100m in 2025 and continued double-digit growth expectations in the coming years.

Euronext Corporate Solutions already serves more than 5000 clients including over 1500 listed companies, private companies, advisors, and public organisations. Clients are located across all Euronext markets (Belgium, France, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal) and beyond (UK, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Finland). The team is composed of 200 professionals across Europe. With the planned acquisition of Admincontrol, it will grow to over 350 professionals.

This unique and comprehensive value proposition is articulated around three main pillars:

Governance services: To public and private organizations, we provide our board portal solution iBabs to help secure, organize, and run board meetings more efficiently (save time preparing agendas and board packs, collaborate easily with annotations, voting, meeting summaries). Our advanced video technology allows you to easily broadcast your meetings from webinars, townhalls, and studio events.

Investor relations and communication services: We help our clients to increase their visibility, engagement, and international coverage with shareholders, investors, and all stakeholders with leading digital communications and streaming solutions. We also provide flexible and customized market data components for Investor Relations websites of listed companies. Our tool provides a complete and intuitive IR management and targeting platform for corporate IR teams to professionalize the workflow and engagement. Our advisory team provides high-touch advisory, ESG advisory, market intelligence, and decision-making analytics for listed companies willing to be more active on capital markets.

Compliance services: Our ComplyLog products help companies simplify their EU regulatory duties, speed up workflows, and ensure compliance by automating the management of inside information and insider lists for both issuers and their professional advisors ensuring compliance with the European Market Abuse Regulation (MAR).

Euronext Corporate Solutions is a fully integrated division of Euronext including all the resources to pursue its business activities: Revenue Growth, Marketing, Product, Technology & Operations, Client Services, and Transformation. It also relies on Euronext support functions to accompany its growth.

Role and Key Accountabilities

As a Solution Architect, you will define and drive the architectural vision for ECS Products focusing on scalable cloud-native solutions in Azure. You'll lead the design of data-driven Kubernetes-based microservices and guide teams in adopting best practices. Collaborating with engineers, vendors, and consultants, you'll ensure robust future-proof architectures that support business growth.

The accountability includes:

• Define and maintain the architectural vision for ECS Products ensuring alignment with scalability, data integration, and cloud infrastructure goals.
• Design end-to-end solutions leveraging Azure and Kubernetes enabling data-driven microservices at scale.
• Produce high-quality architectural documentation including high-level and low-level designs, target state diagrams, and architectural roadmaps.
• Guide engineering teams on architectural best practices ensuring solutions are well-structured, maintainable, and secure.
• Collaborate with internal teams, vendors, and consultants to align on architecture choices and successfully navigate the architecture approval process.
• Champion data integration initiatives that combine historical and external data sources into a unified reusable data platform for various applications.
• Ensure architecture decisions support future scaling, maintainability, and performance across ECS Products.
• Mentor developers and technical leads promoting a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

Knowledge, Personality, Skills, and Experience Required

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5 years of experience as a Solution Architect with strong expertise in Azure; experience with AWS or Google Cloud is a plus.
• Proven experience with data-driven solutions, Kubernetes, and microservices architecture.
• Strong skills in architectural design and documentation (HLD, LLD, target state diagrams).
• Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL databases including performance tuning and optimization.
• Expertise in data integration (ETL pipelines, synchronization) and data governance including privacy and quality standards.
• Experience leading design and decision-making processes and transitioning solutions from PoC to production.
• Effective communicator able to collaborate with engineers, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Fluency in English; strong interpersonal skills.
• Programming skills in Python, R, or similar languages are a plus.

Euronext Values

Unity

• We respect and value the people we work with.
• We are unified through a common purpose.
• We embrace diversity and strive for inclusion.

Integrity

• We value transparency, communicate honestly, and share information openly.
• We act with integrity in everything we do.
• We don't hide our mistakes and we learn from them.

Agility

• We act with a sense of urgency and decisiveness.
• We are adaptable, responsive, and embrace change.
• We take smart risks.

Energy

• We are positively driven to make a difference and challenge the status quo.
• We focus on and encourage personal leadership.
• We motivate each other with our ambition.

Accountability

• We deliver maximum value to our customers and stakeholders.
• We take ownership and are accountable for the outcome.
• We reward and celebrate performance.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or any other legally protected factor. We value the unique talents of all our people who come from diverse backgrounds with different personal experiences and points of view and we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect.

Additional Information

This job description is only describing the main activities within a certain role and is not exhaustive. It does not prevent adding more tasks/projects.

Key Skills

Business Process, VMware, Cloud, HTML5, Windows, Project management, AWS, Infrastructure, Web Services, JQuery, Java, Computer Engineering, Solutions design, Technical Solutions, Analytics.