Job Description
Technical Architect- London
I am currently recruiting for a Technical Architect based in London. The successful candidate will join a global highly skilled architecture team and realize the Business and platform vision. The successful candidate will be able to effectively combine long-term strategic vision with hands-on, practical architecture, problem-solving strengths, communication, and leadership skills to help bring about a wide-reaching evolution in EMS/OMS capability.
What the Client is offering:
15% bonus
80-100k salary depending on experience
8% pension
Plus, loads of other benefits
Required Skills-
Deep Architecture expertise in FX EMS/OMS technologies, ideally from a vendor: Order mgmt, Position mgmt, Execution Mgmt, SOR, GUI technologies, Workflow, RFQ, RFS, Liquidity Provider connectivity and adapters, Risk Mgmt inc. Trading Controls, Post-trade/STP, Analytics and reporting, Reference Data.
High performance and low latency/jitter messaging infrastructures
Good understanding of FIX data/message modeling and FIX infrastructure management
Low Latency Trading Systems Architecture including Software, Bus, Caching, and Database technologies.
Self-starter, highly motivated, outstanding problem solver
Technology evangelist
Experienced at striking the balance between architectural vision and near term delivery
Effective collaboration and influence across organizational boundaries
Strong stakeholder management and negotiation skills
Strong verbal and written communications.
Design and architecture of systems and software components
Demonstrated track record architecting systems for quality, availability, supportability, scalability, extensibility, and security
Experience in Cloud technologies particularly AWS, HTML5/JS, Docker, Kubernetes, databases, serverless.
Information security architecture and secure software development and tooling.
Network Architecture
Agile development methodologies and DevOps, CI/CD pipeline and associated tooling, Jira
Excellent organizational and analytical abilities
Strong ability to build and maintain working relationships with the Business and implementation teams.
Education/Experience:
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant field, or equivalent experience
A minimum of 5 years' experience in a similar role in financial services
Experience with the following a plus:
Formal requirements analysis and architecture modeling methodologies and tools
API strategy and delivery
Application of AI/ML in financial services
GCP, Azure cloud technologies
If this role sounds interesting and fits your skillset then feel free to contact me on either 0121 265 4445 or at