Acadian Asset Management is a global, systematic investment manager at the forefront of data-driven investing since 1986. Headquartered in Boston, with locations in Singapore, London, and Sydney, we manage over $170 billion on behalf of leading institutions worldwide—including pension funds, endowments, foundations, and sovereign wealth funds. We harness advanced technology, rich datasets, and multidisciplinary expertise to help clients navigate complex markets and uncover insights that may be overlooked by traditional approaches.
What sets Acadian apart is our people. We foster a collaborative, intellectually curious environment where ideas are tested, diverse perspectives are welcomed, and innovation thrives. We’re united by a shared purpose: delivering effective client outcomes and supporting one another in work that’s both challenging and rewarding. We offer a flexible hybrid work environment, strong benefits, and a casual but focused office culture—all designed to support the meaningful, collaborative work that defines Acadian.
Position Overview:
This position is for an experienced, detail-oriented Business Architect with effective communication skills. The successful candidate will have experience working with customers, users, and project leads in analyzing, designing, implementing, and supporting a variety of projects. This position acts as a liaison and partner to the business stakeholder community within Acadian, and will help identify development solutions, modifications, and integrations of existing and new applications. You will work very closely with cross-functional teams to understand and translate business needs into a prioritized backlog with the Scrum team. The candidate will openly communicate with team members to identify impacts across workflow functions and impacted downstream applications. The Business Architect II will be expected to drive medium to large-sized projects while exercising considerable independent judgment and discretion.
Acadian supports a hybrid work environment; employees are on-site in the Boston office 3 days a week.
What You’ll Do:
- Assist in creating the business architecture for Investment Operations group by gathering the business functions, identifying the dependencies, and performing gap analysis on the future and current state business architecture
- Manage the project delivery pipeline by developing project mandates, generating value stream maps, incorporate the architectural principles into the backlog, and ensure the delivery teams meet sprint goals and objectives
- Serve as a Product Owner to translate complex business needs into deliverable features/user stories on behalf of stakeholders and identify ways to deliver Minimum Viable Product in alignment with Product Roadmap/epics
- Manages delivery of scope, partners with delivery teams to ensure user stories are clear and resolves impediments quickly and efficiently
- Plan and execute User Acceptance Testing as well as Post Implementation Validations to ensure successful releases of your projects
- Provide subject matter expertise and coaching to the delivery teams and mentor the business analysts in successfully implementing Agile and DevOps methodologies
- Support the daily operations of our customers and identify operational efficiencies to improve customer experience
We’re Looking for Teammates With:
- Bachelor’s degree is required
- 6-8 years of experience supporting the Investment Operations function in the financial services industry, reviewing business requirements, system functional requirements, and developing systems specifications
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to translate broader business initiatives into clear team objectives and concrete goals
- Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities and/or teams; Ability to think strategically and to inform, influence and collaborate with senior managers on business opportunities and risks
- Identify, assess and resolve complex business problems; facilitate issue resolution and risk mitigation
- Ability to work with the business users, understand their needs and translate those needs to software deliverables; work with the technical resources and coordinate their efforts to deliver project solutions
The base salary range for this role is $180,000 – $190,000 per year. Actual compensation will be determined based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and relevant experience. In addition to base pay, this position may be eligible for discretionary incentive compensation and includes participation in Acadian’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes health, retirement, and wellness offerings.
To apply for this position or view Acadian’s open roles, please visit the Careers section of our website at: http://www.acadian-asset.com/careers/Job-opportunities. We will contact only selected candidates. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at [email protected].
Acadian Asset Management LLC is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants. No employee or applicant shall be discriminated against on the basis of gender, race, creed, color, sex, age, national origin, marital status, pregnancy or parenthood, veteran status, citizenship status, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
Acadian Asset Management Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
260 Franklin Street, Boston, MA, United States, 02110
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