Solutions Engineer, Trade Operations (Pre-Sales)

What makes us, us

Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp!

At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.

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Why this role is important to us

A Solutions Engineer, Trade Operations, plays a critical role in shaping SimCorp’s go-to-market, sales, and marketing initiatives to support revenue growth and expand SimCorp’s presence across the Americas. With a focus on Middle and Back Office workflows, this role helps articulate the value of SimCorp One to both prospective and existing clients.

Working closely with Sales, Product, Customer Success and Implementation teams, the Solutions Engineer leads and coordinates client presentations and software demonstrations, ensuring SimCorp One’s capabilities are effectively showcased and aligned to client needs.

What you will be responsible for

• Act as a subject matter expert on Middle and Back Office workflows across all asset classes, including reconciliation, confirmation, settlement, cash management, valuation, collateral management, reporting, and accounting.
• Prepare and facilitate detailed SimCorp One software demonstrations, presentations, and workshops for clients and prospects.
• Hold regular meetings with prospects and clients to understand their current use of technology and systems, and to identify opportunities to leverage additional available functionality not currently licensed.
• Prepare responses to prospective client RFIs (Requests for Information) and RFPs (Requests for Proposal).
• Ensure effective and detailed knowledge transfer from the sales process to the implementation team following contract execution.
• Provide input to the product team on market trends and evolving client requirements.
• Contribute to build out of local and global demonstration systems to reflect how the system should be used by clients in the various verticals: Pension Funds, Asset Managers, Insurance Companies, Central Banks.  

What we value

• 10+ years experience within the Financial Services Industry with exposure to the middle and back-office functions.
• University degree in business or technology.
• Strong knowledge of Buy Side trade lifecycle flows, with a particular focus on post-execution processes.
• Practical experience with SimCorp One, particularly across the post-trade lifecycle, is highly desirable.
• Experience across a broad range of Public & Private asset classes (e.g., fixed income, equities, derivatives).
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong problem-solving capabilities with a solution-oriented mindset and a commitment to delivering outcomes.
• Methodical, self-motivated, and able to perform effectively during high-demand projects.
• Proven relationship builder with strong interpersonal skills, both in client-facing engagements and cross-functional collaboration.
• A critical thinker with a commitment to continuous learning and professional development.
• Willingness to travel as required.
• Flexibility to attend SimCorp office 2x/week as per our hybrid policy.  

Benefits

SimCorp offers several benefits that might play a significant factor in considering whether to accept a job offer. Since SimCorp operates in 30+ offices worldwide, the benefits package may vary from country to country.

Simcorp follows a global hybrid policy, asking employees to work from the office two days each week while allowing remote work on other days.

Next steps  

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.

For any questions you are welcome to contact Hayley Ricks, Lead