Murex Solution Architect

Language: English

Location:
Paris, France Employment: Permanent Model: Hybrid We are seeking an experienced Murex Solution Architect to support a major MX.3 architecture and transformation programme in Paris. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and evolving end-to-end Murex architecture, ensuring seamless integration across Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office, Risk and Finance. The role requires broad functional and architectural expertise across capital markets, with the ability to assess existing platform designs, define scalable target architectures and support long-term technology transformation. The architect will work closely with business stakeholders, Murex specialists and technical delivery teams to establish a unified, sustainable and scalable MX.3 architecture, supporting new business requirements, platform upgrades and future digital services. Required

Experience:
• 8+ years of Murex MX.3 experience, ideally in Solution Architecture, Technical Architecture or senior cross-functional consulting roles.
• Strong experience designing front-to-back Murex solutions across Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office, Risk and Finance.
• Extensive functional knowledge across at least one major capital markets business line, such as FX, Commodities, Fixed Income or Treasury.
• Strong understanding of Murex Front Office functionality, including FX Derivatives, FX Options, Commodities, Interest Rate Derivatives, pre-trade processes and trading workflows.
• Experience across Murex ERM and Risk Management, including MLC, VaR and associated risk calculation processes.
• Good understanding of Collateral Management, trade lifecycle processing, confirmations, settlements and accounting.
• Experience with Murex Datamart, reporting, extractions and data migration.
• Knowledge of Murex integration architecture, upstream and downstream interfaces, and dependencies between functional modules.
• Experience supporting Murex implementations, platform upgrades, architecture transformation or instance consolidation.
• Familiarity with Murex MXpress, with knowledge of Flex, Flex-MxAPI or SEC-FIN considered advantageous.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, particularly in translating ambiguous requirements into practical architectural solutions.
• Excellent communication, leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate across business and technical teams.

Key Responsibilities
• Solution Architecture: Design and maintain scalable Murex MX.3 architecture across trading, risk, operations, finance and technical domains.
• Front-to-Back Integration: Define end-to-end architecture covering Front Office trading workflows, risk calculations, collateral management, trade lifecycle processing, settlements and accounting.
• Architecture Strategy: Establish target architecture, integration principles and design standards aligned with long-term business and technology objectives.
• Platform Optimisation: Identify opportunities to simplify existing Murex environments, reduce duplication and improve architecture scalability and maintainability.
• Murex Instance Convergence: Support initiatives to centralise position data, risk calculations and processing chains within a unified Murex architecture.
• Risk & ERM Architecture: Provide architectural guidance across MLC, VaR, market risk and associated risk-control processes.
• Data & Reporting Architecture: Oversee Datamart, reporting, data migration and integration requirements across Murex environments.
• Upgrade Strategy: Support the design of efficient, sustainable and cost-effective platform upgrade approaches.
• Business

Requirements:
Engage stakeholders to understand business needs, assess technical impacts and translate complex requirements into actionable architectural designs.
• Architecture Governance: Review solution proposals, identify risks, challenge technical decisions and recommend practical alternatives.
• Digital Transformation: Ensure the architecture can support future digital services and evolving capital markets business processes.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with business users, solution architects, developers, Murex teams and project managers to align technical delivery with strategic objectives.
• Documentation & Design: Produce architecture documentation, solution design specifications, integration diagrams and recommendations for technical governance and decision-making.