Technical Architect - FX EMS/OMS
Summary
Would you like to be at the forefront of a world leader in intelligent information? You would be providing clients with competitive advantage through a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology.
This company is currently serving over 40,000 institutions across over 150 countries worldwide. They specialise in providing leading data and insights, trading platforms, market data infrastructure and open technology platforms that support and connect a thriving global financial markets community.
The successful Technical Architect 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.
Responsibilities of the successful Senior Technical Architect:
- Hands-on Technical Architect working closely with the Business and agile development teams to define EMS/OMS architecture.
- Subject matter expert responsible for EMS/OMS vendor assessment.
- Ensure our open platform architecture remains secure
- Align Trading Architecture with the wider Enterprise Architecture and Business vision
- Understand and review current system architecture
- Define the glide path from current state to target architecture
- Drive the highest levels of quality and service
- Promote enterprise wide reuse of technology components
- Track industry trends and ensure new system designs exploit enabling technologies
- Selection of technology vendors and commercial negotiation.
The skills they're looking for from the successful Senior Technical Architect:
- 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 modelling and FIX infrastructure management
- Low Latency Trading Systems Architecture including Software, Bus, Caching and Database technologies.
- 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
- 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
Position: Senior Technical Architect - FX EMS/OMS
Location: London
Type: Permanent
Salary: £80,000 to £100,000 base + 20% bonus + private medical + pension
Contact: David Patterson
Telephone: 020 7780 6706
