Director, Architect - Investment Management/Fund Services
$162,500–$197,000 year
HybridLocation, Northern Cape, South Africa
Job Summary
Set architecture direction for the Investment Management/Fund Services pod to ensure alignment to enterprise standards, technology strategy, and business priorities. Define and govern domain standards, patterns, and reference architectures for building resilient, scalable, and secure buy-side applications. Resolve complex cross-solution architectural issues involving low latency data integration, system interoperability, and dependencies between front, middle, and back-office platforms. Guide and coach others on architectural principles focused on secure high-performance engineering without direct people management. Lead the design of data-centric solutions ensuring auditable data lineage and robust governance for financial calculations, trading decisions, and ledger adjustments. This role operates within the Investment Excellence Portfolio at IGM Financial Inc., a leading wealth and asset management company managing approximately $310 billion in assets. The position focuses on modernizing platforms for portfolio analytics, fund services, and data management through cloud-native solutions.
Required Qualifications
- Extensive experience leading architecture across complex, enterprise-scale financial services portfolios (solution and/or domain)
- Strong capability in governance, standards, target-state design, integration, and roadmap definition
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive outcomes across multiple teams without direct line authority
- Skilled in facilitating trade-offs and risk decisions while balancing strategic coherence with delivery pragmatism
- Architectural understanding of the end-to-end investment lifecycle, from front-office (portfolio construction, quantitative modeling, order management) and middle-office (risk analytics, compliance) to back-office (NAV calculation, fund accounting)
- Strong knowledge of Wealth Management/Capital Markets and the Financial Services industry
- Experience with end-to-end technical solutions and business processes to support Mutual Funds, ETFs, and Institutional SMAs
- Knowledge of diverse asset classes and their data structures, including public global equities, fixed income, derivatives, and private markets
- Previous experience working with Global Asset Managers and Market vendors such as CIBCM, BNY, Morningstar, Bloomberg, FactSet etc and the data associated with these systems and solutions
- Previous experience with Accounting Book of Record and Investment Book of Record solutions and awareness of the technology stacks Experience delivering capabilities involving packaged / SaaS solutions
- Awareness of integration platforms including MuleSoft and/or others
- Awareness of the technology stack used in capital markets, investment and/or wealth management
- Advanced knowledge of enterprise data architecture, including relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle) and cloud data platforms like Google BigQuery or Snowflake
- Experience designing high-performance analytics systems, with an awareness of parallel computing techniques (e.g., using NumPy, Pandas, multi-threading, NVIDIA CUDA for large-scale data processing)
- Fluent working in Jira, Confluence, Kanban and Sprint Boards
- Familiarity with leveraging AI agentic solutions (OpenClaw, AgentSH, etc.), MCP servers and prompt context optimization
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