System Architect - Toronto, ON (Canada)

Job Title: System Architect with Python

Location: Toronto, ON (Canada)

Project description

• You will work as a Senior Engineer in Public Markets Technology, partnering with investment professionals and operations staff to design and implement solutions enabling trading and post-trade activities.
• You will be responsible for hands-on development and maintenance of solutions covering a number of asset classes, including equities, fixed income, derivatives, OTC, and FX.
• Through close partnership with investment professionals and operations, you will see firsthand how your software is impacting trade activities and delivering long-term value to the our Client.

Responsibilities

• Work in collaboration with trading professionals, operations, and technology teams to design and build solutions enabling trade activities across a number of asset classe,s including futures, equities, fixed income, derivatives, OTC, and FX.
• Collaborate with team members to conceptualize, desig,n and develop new software applications.
• Applications may be server-side enterprise solutions, GUI, or highly customized solutions developed for the specific needs of a business partner.
• Create solutions tailored to business requirements aligned with the long-term architecture and technology strategy using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Cloud development.
• Maintain and improve existing applications to support trading functions.
• Effectively unit test and perform integration testing on software components.
• Prepare and document design and program specifications.
• Manage timelines/deliverables towards the successful delivery of projects.
• Develop the right IT behaviors to enable building scalable solutions within predictable time frames.
• Provide knowledge transfer to team members and support staff through application demos, walkthroughs, and documentation.
• Provide responsive business assistance while adhering to processes required for quality enterprise-level software development and support.

Skills Must have

• University degree in Engineering or Computer Science.
• Good understanding of trading, derivatives, and trade life cycle with an eagerness to contribute to the systems that support them.
• Strong experience required in designing scalable, secure, and high-availability systems, microservices, RESTful APIs, and on-prem/cloud integrations.
• Design end-to-end technical solutions that meet business requirements, ensuring they are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Evaluate and recommend appropriate technologies, platforms, and tools to support the solution.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, data flow diagrams, and technical documentation to support development and operations.
• Strong hands-on experience in Python, REST API, AWS Cloud, and Kubernetes.
• Good working experience in C++.
• Strong working knowledge of Databases i.e., SQL.
• Experience in capital markets and eagerness to contribute to the systems that support trading activities.
• Strong knowledge of software development best practices and patterns.
• Commitment to investments' guiding principles of integrity, partnership and high performance.
• Experience in DevOps and CI/CD.

Nice to have

• Experience in Terraform.
• Knowledge of Bloomberg and/or Murex trading platforms.
• Knowledge of the FIX protocol.
• Experience in other programming languages like Java.