We are currently recruiting for a fast-growing London-based start-up that is launching the first regulated Digital Asset Exchange. We are currently looking for candidates to work in their London office (near Bank station) across solutions architecture. This business targets institutional investors providing them with its FCA brokerage, custody and cryptoasset permissions.
So ,if you are an experienced Solutions Architect and would like to create a wealth opportunity for yourself then please apply.
We would like you to help architect and implement the software platform for a new digital asset exchange that is focused on an institutional client base.
The ideal applicant will have previous experience designing and building the technical architecture of financial real time trading systems.
We are looking for candidates who have experience of the full architectural design of software products, whilst working with cross functional teams in different geographical locations.
The candidate will have proven product experience that focuses on capital markets technologies who can bring a wealth of experience to the team and drive delivery of the product.
Responsibilities
The Solution Architect is expected to significantly impact and drive product delivery by architecting and orchestrating solutions that map our current business requirements to end-to-end technology solutions.
Key accountabilities include:
Develop, design and architect the development of innovative, scalable, and resilient products that align with the business requirements
Evaluating project constrains to find alternatives, alleviate risks, and perform re-engineering if required
Quantifies the needs of the business to achieve value outcomes, champions required methodology, creating new IP and shares recommended best practices
Drives delivery excellence ensuring quality transformation plans and solutions are delivered
Performs risk management and architectural oversight for cross domain solutions working in tandem with the development team
Participates in opportunity development focused on complex solutions in line with company strategy
The Solution Architect should be able to demonstrate the following behaviours:
Ability to engage in senior level IT and business decision makersâ discussions related to agility, business value, and end to end IT
Act as enabler for the development team across our business
Apply advanced analysis skills and experience in the principals of architectural design
Be credible by possessing current and deep knowledge of architecture design, as it relates the industry needs of the product
Qualifications
The Solution Architect should have expert level knowledge required to assist our team in architecting, planning, testing, and deploying solutions and their experience should include the following:
The ideal candidate will be degree educated with at least 5 years of relevant work experience in a similar role
Experience with capital markets and trading software
Proven experience estimating, scoping, and writing effective statements of work
Deep technical knowledge in architecting solutions with containerized technologies (Docker/Kubernetes) and understanding of CI/CD and DevOps secure practices
Experience of cloud-based AWS technologies
Experience of DB management using noSQL/MySQL, caching and application middleware architectures.
Understanding of enterprise deployment and scaling in complex heterogeneous environments
Ability to move between high-level architectural review/design and lower-level implementation by fully understanding the SDLC
Excellent communication and documentation skills
Excellent English language skills (both spoken and written)
It would be nice to have additional technical understanding in the following areas:
Understanding of securities trading (debt, equity, derivatives, hybrids), associated financial markets
Understanding of blockchain technologies
Has previously worked with Electron
Understanding in architecting solutions with Messaging architecture (ZeroMQ/Pub/Sub/WebSockets/Protobufs) and has previously worked with C++
Has previously worked with multi-threaded real-time/low latency systems.
Benefits
25 days holiday, raising up to 30 days with years of service
Career opportunities to grow and scale with a startup company
Be a part of an exciting, fast-growing, and future thinking industry
