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 percent bonus
• 80-100k salary depending on experience
• 8 percent 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