Job Description:
Principal Architect
Front Office – Investment Management Equity Trading Trade Execution
- Lead / Mentor 5 developers
- Supporting Front Office Traders, PMs, Research
- Influence architecture and delivery across EMS centric trading workflows
- Focus on Equities, Futures, FX, Options
Location & Compensation
- Location: Battery Park City
- Hybrid: 4 days in office
- Compensation: 200k – 220k base + bonus
- PTO: Unlimited
- Benefits: Exceptional
The Role
- Architect, design & develop EMS customizations & interfaces
- Optimize endtoend trade workflows
- Balance delivery across:
- New development: 30%
- Enhancements: 50%
- Maintenance: 20%
- Backend: 70% Frontend: 30%
- Partner with: Traders, Quants, Portfolio Managers, Product Owner
- Provide architectural direction aligned with futurestate platforms.
- Drive AI adoption to increase development efficiency & velocity.
- Troubleshoot & resolve performance & stability issues.
Tech Stack – Current State
Java (50%)
Java Swing (30% for custom interfaces to EMS platform)
SQL Server (10%) VB.net (10%)
Trading Platforms: CRIMS, Portware EMS
AWS, Snowflake, Kafka
Agile, Microservices,
TDD, Unit Testing (Pytest, UnitTest)
GIT Co-pilot, Eclipse, VS Code, Jira, Confluence, Docker,
Future State to include
- Java JavaScript
- AWS, Snowflake, Kafka
- Trading Platforms: Aladdin, CRIMS, Portware EMS
- DevSecOps
- Implementation of AI tools
Required Skills & Experience
- Directly Supporting Front Office Trade Execution
- Deep understanding and experience with Equity Trading Workflows
- Investment Management
- Capital markets
- Clear, Decisive Communication
- Strong presentation and leadership presence
- Expertlevel Java (Java 8+) Architect, Design, Concept, Implementation
- 4+ years architecture experience (microservices and related patterns)
- Cloudnative development experience (AWS preferred)
- Proven ability to diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks
- OMS/EMS (Portware, CRD, Aladdin, etc)
