Senior Business Architect

The role

A Senior Business Architect will bridge Canadian brokerage operations and the product roadmap. You will turn operating knowledge into requirements, epics, and user stories for Product and Engineering to build.

What you will do

• Map brokerage operations end to end across onboarding, clearing, settlement, custody, and reporting
• 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
• Work with Product Managers and Engineering to sequence MVP, launch, and scale
• Interface across Product, Engineering, Ops, and Compliance
• Run structured discovery through workshops and SME interviews
• Flag where straight-through processing and AI-assisted exception handling should be designed in
• Maintain a living requirements backlog tied to ACCC milestones

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, finance, or equivalent
• 8+ years as a business architect, business analyst, consultant or in product operations within brokerage, clearing, custody, or capital markets
• Comfortable translating brokerage operating processes and regulatory requirements into product language
• Strong structured analysis: flows, entities, states, exceptions, controls
• Clear writing: specs, diagrams, and decisions
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across operations, product, engineering, and compliance

Nice to have

• Experience on a carrying, self-clearing, or custody build
• Canadian dealer, carrying broker, or introducing broker experience
• Prior business architecture or enterprise/solution architecture exposure in capital markets
• Familiarity with CDS or Canadian settlement workflows
• Experience with registered accounts or Canadian tax requirements (TFSA, RRSP, RESP)
• Background with API or platform brokerage products
• Experience working at a fintech, startup, or greenfield launch
• AI-native workflow: recurring use of tools like Cursor, Claude, or ChatGPT
• Experience shaping greenfield capability roadmaps with executive sponsors

Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options
• Health Benefits
• New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
• Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card

About the company

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. The company serves hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with institutional-grade APIs.