Singapore - AWM - Senior Manager (Data Architect)

Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (Alpha FMC) is the leading global consultancy to the asset and wealth management industry. We are a boutique management consulting firm that offers the world’s top asset and wealth managers a competitive edge through our expertise and industry insight. Our team is of a uniquely high calibre and by focusing on asset and wealth management alone we build deep knowledge and experience within our industry. We work with a blue-chip client base, including 95% of the top 20 global asset management firms, and work with over 660 clients across the globe. We have our headquarters located in the United Kingdom and operate out of 18 offices in the major financial centres to support our clients across the globe.

Our APAC team (Singapore, Malaysia, Sydney, Melbourne) is made up of 40+ consultants with deep expertise across the AWM industry. Our clients include Asset Owners, Managers and Servicers, Wealth Managers and Insurers. We provide our clients with a range of services covering Target Operating Models, Data Governance and Strategy, Implementations, Migrations, Benchmarking and Provider Selections.

To clients, we are a trusted partner for creating programmes, however, we are so much more to our employees. At Alpha, we pride ourselves in being meritocratic environment perfect for building a career, meeting great people, as well as a rewarding place to work. By joining us, you'll be part of a dynamic and growing team. You'll be fully involved in the firm's business development and growth activities. We offer you the opportunity to embark on an exciting career.

Role Responsibilities:

Your knowledge of the investment management industry and associated operational processes and IT platforms will allow you to provide commercially viable and practical solutions that meet business needs and consider project constraints.

You will work with our team of senior technology and business consultants assisting investment management firms with transformational change programs. You will work with business stakeholders, business analysts, and vendors to define end to end technical solutions to support specific programs / projects, including system design, integration, and data architectures.

As a Senior Manager - Data Architect Expert, you will be responsible for solving complex problems for our clients, including institutional asset manager and asset owners across front, middle, and back office, and across the entire asset and wealth management value chain. The role leads the review and creation of IT systems capability strategy, aligned with stated client business objectives, integrating market and technology, understanding asset management processes and issues, developing architectures to build and mature capabilities required to enable client business objectives and address current issues including:

• Target operating models and associated IT architectures
• IT strategies required to achieve business objectives and growth plans
• Technical due diligence and system selections
• End to end solution design to support specific programs / projects
• Develop detailed and actionable business cases and delivery plans which reflect our practice’s deep industry, IT and business acumen.
• Understand trends in the asset management industry, understand asset managers and asset owners operating models and technology platforms, and
• Understand the vendor solutions and service providers in the market for asset management and how to apply those to solve client problems / build operational capability
• Contributing to the development of you Alpha Practice Area
• Develop client relationships and grow your network
• Develop and refine intellectual property for use in client engagements and business development activities

Role Requirements (Skills, Experience and Qualifications):

• 5+ years of experience in data analysis, engineering, architecture, and operations roles, including experience with transformational efforts:
• Enterprise and/or Solutions Architecture: Experience in helping clients establish a vision, roadmap and governance and detailing the solution.
• IT Strategy: Experience in the business application of technology, an analytical and rigorous approach, business case experience, ability to turn data into insightful executive summaries.
• Data Strategy: Exposure to new business models and customer journeys enabled by evolving data architecture and advanced analytics.
• Application Strategy & Solution Design: Experience in helping client’s re-position their technology portfolio to fuel growth by balancing cost and capability.
• Asset Management: Experience working with front and middle office teams to understand requirements, specify innovative solutions, and implement systems
• 2+ years investment management experience
• Experience with Order Management and/or Data Management systems desirable - such as Blackrock Aladdin, Charles River, Bloomberg AIM, Goldensource, Markit EDM, Eagle
• Ability to develop relationship with and influence senior business and IT stakeholders
• Structured thinking, problem solving and innovation skills
• A track record of delivery for large transformation programs
• Experience working across Asian markets
• First class written and verbal communication skills; the ability to articulate complex problems and solutions in a simple, logical and impactful manner.
• Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment, ability to proffer good mentorship and coaching skills towards other team members
• Driven self-starter enjoys a challenge, proven ability to adapt and remove obstacles to achieve results, determination and optimism.
• Intellectual capacity and ability to think in new and innovative ways to understand complex issues and develop creative solutions
• Flexibility to travel if required
• Tertiary qualifications, preferably in IT, Engineering, or Science
• Business language fluency in English

Sharing in our Success:

Allowing our people to share in our growth journey is a highly valued component of the business and here are a few ways that we do this: 

• Competitive base salary
• Profit share (% of base salary) which is linked to company performance
• Private medical health insurance subsidy
• Health and wellbeing allowance
• Mobile phone and internet allowance
• Home office setup allowance
• Learning and development allowance
• 25 days annual leave
• 5 days paid study leave
• Paid parental leave (18 weeks) and secondary carer leave (2 weeks)

Your Wellbeing:

Ensuring that we prioritise the wellbeing and pastoral care of everyone is paramount. To support this, we have an established mentoring and employee oversight framework across all global locations and levels. At the same time, we continue to invest in our comprehensive training and development programme that builds confidence, consulting skills and industry content.  

Our commitment to diversity & inclusion:

At Alpha we are committed to employing individuals from all backgrounds, that reflects the multi-cultural society we live in. We pride ourselves on operating an inclusive working environment and providing the best people to meet our client’s expectations of service. We are a disability-inclusive employer and want to ensure that you have a barrier-free recruitment experience. If you require assistance or adjustments during your recruitment process, please let us know in advance and we will do our best to accommodate your request.