Java Architect

Technical Direction: Define and drive the long-term technical roadmap for front-office trading and portfolio management platforms, ensuring alignment with evolving business needs.

Design & Architecture: Lead critical design decisions, promoting Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and cloud-native principles to ensure system resilience and scalability.

Cloud Alignment: Evaluate and implement strategies to align application architectures with cloud environments, optimizing for performance and cost-effectiveness.

Code Standards & Governance: Establish and enforce rigorous coding standards and best practices across the engineering team to ensure consistency and readability.

Quality Assurance: Take ultimate accountability for the quality, security, and maintainability of all technical deliverables, conducting deep-dive code reviews and architectural audits.

Mentorship: Guide and mentor senior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.

Stakeholder Collaboration: Act as the primary technical liaison between product management, business stakeholders in Asset Management, and the engineering squads.

Experience: 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record in a leadership or foundational architectural role.

Domain Expertise: Deep experience in Asset Management front-office application development, including familiarity with order management systems (OMS), execution management, or portfolio analytics.

Architectural Mastery: Strong expertise in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and designing distributed systems that handle real-time data.

Cloud-Native Mindset: Proficiency in designing applications specifically for cloud-native ecosystems (containers, microservices, serverless).

Technical Excellence: Expert-level understanding of software design patterns, enterprise integration patterns, and clean code principles.

Quality Focus: Experience implementing automated testing strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and observability frameworks to ensure system health.

Direct experience with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) and cloud-native orchestration (Kubernetes).

Knowledge of high-frequency messaging patterns and real-time streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ).

Familiarity with financial data protocols and regulatory requirements specific to the buy-side.

Leadership Competencies

Ability to translate complex business requirements into clear technical specifications.

Decisiveness in making high-stakes architectural trade-offs.

Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences