Senior Developer and Architect

The Architect & Senior Developer will be responsible for designing and delivering high-quality software solutions across trading, operational, and regulatory platforms. This role will play a key part in defining and evolving enterprise architecture, modernising integration frameworks, and enhancing front, middle, and back-office systems. The successful candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, product owners, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient solutions while supporting the organisation’s strategic technology initiatives., * Define and maintain architecture strategies across trading, clearing, and post-trade systems.

• Lead the modernisation of integration frameworks, APIs, and messaging architectures.
• Develop and govern enterprise data architecture to improve quality, security, and accessibility.
• Drive architecture standards, best practices, and governance across technology teams.
• Design highly resilient solutions that align with operational resilience and recovery objectives.
• Ensure technology solutions meet regulatory and compliance obligations by design.
• Support change management and incident management processes.
• Mentor engineers and development teams on architecture, cloud-native development, and engineering best practices.
• Champion DevSecOps, automation, and Infrastructure as Code initiatives.
• Support the organisation’s approach to secure, explainable, and compliant AI adoption.

This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on architect who enjoys balancing strategic architecture leadership with technical delivery in a fast-paced financial markets environment. #J-18808-Ljbffr

• Strong expertise in .NET, C#, and SQL Server development and architecture.
• Extensive experience designing and delivering enterprise solutions within financial markets technology environments such as clearing brokers, investment banks, exchanges, or financial technology vendors.
• Deep understanding of the complete trade lifecycle, including order processing, execution, risk management, margining, collateral management, valuation, and give-up processing.
• Hands-on experience working with FIX protocol and exchange/CCP connectivity across venues such as CME, ICE, Eurex, LME, or similar.
• Proven experience with event-driven and microservices architectures.
• Strong background working with messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka and IBM MQ.
• Experience building and supporting real-time data platforms and distributed systems.
• Expertise with containerisation technologies and Azure cloud environments.
• Experience supporting cloud migration initiatives for regulated financial services workloads.
• Knowledge of financial services regulations including EMIR, MiFID II, CASS, MAR, DORA, CFTC, or similar regulatory frameworks.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical teams and executive stakeholders.
• Experience producing architecture documentation, decision records, governance artefacts, and target-state roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of resilience, disaster recovery, security, and operational risk requirements within regulated environments.

Plusses Include:

• Experience working with Python.
• Previous exposure to AI governance, AI risk management, or regulatory considerations around AI adoption.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code and advanced DevSecOps practices.
• Background leading architecture governance forums and technology strategy initiatives.

Insight Global are seeking a Sr. Developer/Architect for a leading global financial services and trading technology organisation.