Trading Systems Architect

Company: Nord Group – A GenHive Partner
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Location: London
Job Description:

Trading Systems Architect

Central London – 5 days onsite

Permanent Employement

Nord Group is partnered with a privately owned Investment Bank based in London, who are looking for a Trading Systems Architect, to join a Multi-Year Fidessa Migration programme, to revamp a large part of their equity trading technology stack. This Greenfield project, will involve designing and implementing new trading systems (risk engines, market/reference data, trading gateways), whilst aligning with modernisation of their proprietary OMS.

Responsibilities:

You'll play a key role in building a next-generation Cash Equity and Electronic Execution Platform. This involves ensuring high availability for global equity market trading, developing custom trading workflows for diverse client needs across trading desks, and designing scalable systems that adapt to market events like interest rate decisions and breaking news, whilst collaborating with other Engineering teams and project members.

Key requirements:

  • Minimum 7-10 years experience, with expertise in modern software design, architecture patters and perfromance measurement (capcity, throughput, latency).
  • Demonstrate a good balance between havnig a commercial mindset, technical knowledge and the ability to communicate effectively with Traders and FO Stakeholders.
  • Confidently operate at a Technical Architect level, demonstrating expert expert Java skills (high-performance, low-latency, microservices) and real-time trading experience.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of trading systems, including integration with reference and market data systems, especially within equity trading using OMS or EMS.
  • Solid understanding of how Fidessa works from both a functional and a technical sense.
  • Good knowledge of Microservice Architectures and Container technologies (Kubernetes etc).
  • Confident testing your own code (automated, unit, UAT and some manual), as there is no dedicated QA or Testing team

Posted: April 28th, 2025