Solutions Architect- NY Client- FT/Contract

The Role

We are seeking a hands-on Solutions Architect to join our team who has a passion and expertise in helping us build client's next-gen Trading Workstation.

The ideal candidate is someone who has demonstrated experience in architecting, building and operating highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant Trading platforms across a range of technologies. You should be passionate about technology, architecture, software engineering and quality, and innovatively addressing business problems. You will work with the team to collaborate on software solutions and architecture and ensure exceptional software engineering practices, and good documentation.

What We re Looking for

• 10+ years of experience of progressive software engineering experience, with 5+ in solution architecture and 3+ in a cloud computing environment (e.g., applications, infrastructure, storage, data, and platforms)
• Adept at building client-side applications using React and TypeScript and have strong experience in designing and implementing GraphQL schemas
• 5+ years of streaming and event processing architectures and platforms (e.g., Kafka)
• Have a strong understanding of UX/UI design principles and a passion for creating intuitive user interfaces
• Ability to plan, estimate, and manage the technical aspects of project execution and delivery
• Have a product mindset that is deeply empathetic to customer needs, strategic in orientation, and metrics and outcomes-driven
• Are comfortable working with ambiguity and adapting to changing requirements, with a proactive bias towards action
• Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt.
• Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences.
• Minimum of 3 years of people management experience leading global teams.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject.
• E-trading and financial services industry experience is a plus.

Advanced technical expertise and knowledge of

• Software development with Java, web application technologies (JavaScript and React), event-driven, event-streaming and service-oriented architectures
• Cloud native application architecture
• API and microservices architecture
• Streaming and event processing architectures and platforms (e.g., Kafka, Flink, Spark)
• Desktop interoperability (e.g., OpenFin, Glue 42)
• Structured and unstructured databases and usage patterns
• High-speed, high-volume, high-frequency transaction processing systems
• Real-time logging, monitoring, and resiliency approaches
• Automated testing practices and frameworks
• Process automation approaches and tooling (e.g., DevOps and AIOps)

Competencies

• A proponent of strong collaborative software engineering techniques and methods: agile development, continuous integration, code review or pairing, unit testing, refactoring and related approaches.
• Ability to articulate and document architectural decisions and roadmaps at a senior executive level.
• Demonstrated ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations.
• Proven ability to build and maintain effective, trusting partnerships with product managers, architects and technical leads for individual products and applications.
• Ability to propose and estimate the financial impact of solution architecture alternatives.

Characteristics

• Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business, IT leaders and engineering teams.
• Technology neutral: remains unbiased toward any specific technology or vendor choice and is more interested in results than personal preferences.
• Displays humility, drive, intellectual curiosity, and integrity.
• Motivated and driven by achieving long-term business outcomes.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead cross-functional team.