IT Principal Architect

Location: TCMi - Bucharest

The Work We Do

Teciem designs, builds, and delivers treasury and capital markets software solutions for financial institutions worldwide. We serve banks of every size and geography, offering the right setup for the right need.

Our solutions are designed to replace multiple disconnected systems with one complete, front-to-back platform, helping customers to capture trading and business opportunities quickly, clearly and with control. We cover the entire trading lifecycle, ensuring that everything - from execution to position keeping, to risk management – runs smoothly.

With decades of experience and one of the largest, most diverse client bases in the industry, we turn deep industry knowledge into software that covers most asset classes, meets complex real-world treasury and capital market's needs, and adapts as markets evolve.

Role Purpose

Defines IT architecture direction following TSA exit, owning strategic technology and integrationpatternsand providing technical governance across applications,infrastructureand security. Accountable for aligning business strategy with technology delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the targetITarchitecture following TSA exit, including guiding principles and standards.
• Own strategic technology and integration patterns across applications,infrastructureand security domains.
• Provide technical governance across all Enterprise IT design decisions, chairing architecture review forums.
• Translate business strategy into a coherent technology roadmap, ensuring alignment across all towers.
• Support vendor and platform selection decisions, providing architectural assessment and recommendations.
• Own the enterprise architecture repository, including reference architectures,standardsand design patterns.
• Partner with the Applications Lead and Technology Operations Lead to ensure delivery aligns with target state.
• Assess and advise on technical debt, ensuring remediation is appropriately prioritised.
• Provide architectural assurance for Day 1 readiness, confirming designs meet operational and security requirements.
• Represent Enterprise IT architecture in wider business transformation and technology forums.
• Mentor and provide technical direction to solution architects and senior engineers across Enterprise IT.

Key Accountabilities

• Accountable for the coherence and integrity of the target enterprise architecture.
• Accountable for technical governance across all major design decisions.
• Accountable for architectural assurance of Day 1 readiness.
• Accountable for alignment between business strategy and the technology roadmap.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Substantial experience as aPrincipalor Enterprise Architect within a large, complex organisation.
• Proventrack recorddefining enterprise architecture following a separation, carve-out or TSA exit.
• Strong technical breadth across applications, infrastructure,integrationand security architecture.
• Experience chairing architecture governance forums and influencing senior technical and business stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns and platform selectionmethodology.
• Experience translating business strategy into actionable technology roadmaps.
• Excellent communication skills, able tooperatecredibly at both technical and executive level.

Desirable Skills

• Experience within a regulated financial services environment.
• Cloud architecture experience across AWS or Azure at enterprise scale.
• Formal architecture framework experience, for example TOGAF.
• TOGAF certification or equivalent enterprise architecture framework qualification.
• Relevant degree or equivalent professional experience.

Key Stakeholders

• IT Director and Head of Enterprise IT.
• Applications Lead, Technology Operations Lead and Cyber Security Interface Lead.
• Business transformation leadership and Programme Director.
• Technology vendors and platform partners.

Success Measures

• Target enterprise architecture defined,approvedand adopted across Enterprise IT.
• Architecture governance forumsoperatingeffectively with clear decision records.
• Design decisions consistently aligned with target architecture and standards.
• Architectural assurance completed and signed off ahead of Day 1 cutover.
• Technical debt trending down through prioritised, architecture-led remediation.

Diverse Minds, Shared Ambition

At Teciem, we believe that our strength comes from the diversity of our people. Different perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences fuel our innovation and help us build solutions that truly make a difference in the world of financial technology.

We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels respected, heard, and empowered to grow. Here, you can bring your whole self to work, contribute your unique ideas, and be part of a team driven by shared ambition.

We welcome talent from all walks of life and encourage applications from individuals of all genders, races, ages, abilities, identities, and beliefs. Together, we’re shaping a culture where diversity isn’t just celebrated — it’s essential to our success.

Additional Locations: TCMi - Paris