Senior Business Architect
Alpaca is a brokerage infrastructure company providing developer APIs for stocks, options, fixed income, and crypto trading, plus tokenization infrastructure for TradFi–DeFi markets.
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About Alpaca
Alpaca provides API-first brokerage infrastructure for fintechs, institutions, algorithmic traders, and developers. Its offerings include Broker API, Trading API, market data, self-clearing brokerage services, crypto services, and the Instant Tokenization Network for in-kind minting and redemption of tokenized assets.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead structured discovery on Canadian brokerage operations covering accounts, trading, clearing, settlement, custody and asset servicing, and turn it into epics, user stories, acceptance criteria and edge cases. You will run gap analysis, define operating models, sequence MVP to scale and maintain a requirements backlog tied to milestones.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, finance or equivalent
- 8+ years as business architect, business analyst, consultant or in product operations within brokerage, clearing, custody or capital markets
- Ability to translate operating processes and regulation into product requirements
- Strong structured analysis
- Clear writing
- Comfortable as senior IC reporting to the President
Responsibilities
- Map brokerage operations end to end
- Define target operating models and capability designs
- Turn regulatory and operational obligations into product requirements
- Write epics, user stories, acceptance criteria and edge cases
- Produce process maps, capability matrices, requirement specs and decision logs
- Sequence MVP to launch to scale with Product and Engineering
- Interface across Product, Engineering, Ops and Compliance
- Run workshops, SME interviews and gap analysis
- Flag where STP, rules and AI-assisted exception handling should be designed in
- Maintain a requirements backlog tied to milestones and open decisions
Benefits
- Stock options
- Health benefits
- One-time USD $500 home-office setup
- Monthly stipend of USD $150 via a Brex Card
