Java Solutions Architect

• Define target architectures, reference patterns, and technical standards for AI-augmented applications across the transactional platform.
• Design reusable agentic AI frameworks supporting prompt and context management, tool integration, human review, testing, traceability, security, and observability.
• Evaluate secure applications of AI to improve engineering productivity, operational processes, and platform capabilities.
• Lead the design, development, modernization, and integration of Java-based applications and C++ services.
• Develop high-quality software, automated tests, and well-defined interfaces that integrate reliably with the broader application ecosystem.
• Translate business requirements into practical architecture, refined stories, acceptance criteria, estimates, and delivery plans.
• Conduct technical spikes and proofs of concept to validate new ideas and reduce delivery risk.
• Improve CI/CD practices including branching, pull requests, issue triage, merge-conflict resolution, release documentation, and deployment controls.
• Provide technical direction, resolve complex design challenges, and mentor engineers across globally distributed teams.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related discipline.

Experience: Fifteen or more years of experience developing server-side Java applications, including significant architecture or technical leadership responsibility. Demonstrated experience applying AI to software architecture and engineering is required.

Technical Skills: Expertise in core Java on Linux/UNIX environments, including Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, JVM tuning, garbage collection, multithreading, algorithms, and data structures. Proficiency in modern C++ with strong knowledge of memory management, concurrency, and complex system design is required. Experience with SQL, relational-data modeling, and enterprise messaging systems such as IBM MQ, JMS, AMPS, Kafka, or TIBCO is also necessary.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Python development, particularly in production-grade services, automation, analytics, or Quartz-based systems.
• Experience designing and delivering secure, governed agentic AI solutions in a regulated environment.
• Experience with distributed, low-latency, high-availability trading systems, including algorithmic execution, trade lifecycle management, pricing, or risk management.
• Experience with FIX, KDB+/Q, Quartz, Google Guava, React, or JavaScript.

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