Trading Platform Architect

• Lead technology initiatives to improve platform resiliency, recoverability, and fault tolerance across eCredit and Portfolio Trading platforms.
• Design and implement scalable architectures capable of supporting growing trading volumes and throughput demands.
• Drive observability improvements through monitoring, telemetry, alerting, distributed tracing, and operational analytics.
• Develop capacity management and performance engineering strategies to proactively identify and address system bottlenecks.
• Modernize platform architecture through cloud-native, event-driven, and automation-first engineering practices.
• Enhance messaging infrastructure and data distribution platforms, including AMPS-based architectures.
• Analyze production incidents and recurring issues to deliver strategic architectural improvements and reduce operational risk.
• Establish engineering standards, architecture patterns, and best practices for mission-critical trading systems.

We are seeking a highly skilled professional to lead technology initiatives aimed at improving platform resiliency, recoverability, and fault tolerance across our electronic trading platforms. This position involves designing and implementing scalable architectures capable of supporting growing trading volumes and high throughput demands. The successful candidate will drive observability improvements, modernize platform architectures using cloud-native and event-driven practices, and establish engineering standards for mission-critical systems., Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline is preferred.

Experience: Minimum of 12 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed electronic trading platforms.

Technical Skills: Strong hands-on expertise in Java and Python development within high-performance, mission-critical environments. Proven experience designing and implementing low-latency and Zero-architectures, with a deep understanding of JVM performance tuning, memory management, and garbage collection optimization. Strong knowledge of data structures, data modeling, memory layouts, concurrency, and computer architecture fundamentals. Strong expertise in platform resiliency, observability, performance engineering, and scalability. Experience with microservices, APIs, messaging platforms, and event-driven architectures., * Strong experience with AMPS messaging architecture, including resiliency, failover, capacity planning, monitoring, and performance optimization.

• Experience leveraging AI-assisted software development lifecycle tools to accelerate software delivery, improve code quality, and enhance engineering efficiency.
• Knowledge of trading workflows, Request for Quote platforms, pricing engines, and electronic execution systems.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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