Post Trade Architect

Posted:
8/29/2024, 9:31:34 PM

Location(s):
Haryana, India ⋅ Gurugram, Haryana, India

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Pay:
$38/hr or $79,040 total comp

Tower Research Capital, a high-frequency proprietary trading firm founded in 1998, seeks a Senior Engineer to join our Post-Trade & Finance Technology team.

The Post-Trade & Finance Technology division is responsible for providing comprehensive and accurate transactional through robust reconciliation processes focusing on efficiency through automation.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical design and architecture for the Post-Trade platform, ensuring alignment with Tower’s overall technology direction while effectively weighing trade-offs.
  • Architect, develop, and optimize tools for key areas such as Reference Data Management, Trade Capture, Reconciliation, P&L, Trade Cost Management, Surveillance, Compliance, and Regulatory Reporting.
  • Collaborate closely with Core Engineering to ensure consistency and integration across platforms. 
  • Work with global stakeholders to translate business needs into robust, scalable technical solutions, facilitating efficient execution of business functions.
  • Drive the end-to-end design and development of projects/products, fostering innovation in building the next generation of middle-office and back-office applications.
  • Advocate and implement process improvements, focusing on automation, better monitoring tools, and continuous integration/delivery practices.
  • Ensure the architecture supports a data-intensive environment, optimizing for performance, reliability, and scalability.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in designing and improving complex information systems, with a strong emphasis on data-intensive architectures.
  • Deep proficiency in both Java and Python, with experience in building and optimizing data ETL pipelines.
  • Comprehensive understanding of Kubernetes, with the ability to manage and optimize development environments within a CI/CD framework.
  • Extensive experience with RDBMS, coupled with familiarity with NoSQL databases.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to write clearly and communicate decisions and trade-offs decisively.
  • Linux system administration skills, along with knowledge of shell scripting.
  • Prior experience in the financial services domain is a strong plus

Benefits

Tower continues to enhance the in-house trading system and strategies that have positioned the firm as a leader in the thriving field of quantitative trading. While Tower offers challenges and rewards rivaling those of any Wall Street firm, Tower’s cubicle-free workplace, jeans-clad workforce, and well-stocked kitchens reflect the premium the firm places on the quality of life. Benefits include:

  • Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
  • 5 weeks of paid vacation per year
  • Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks on a daily basis
  • Cab facility within Gurgaon
  • Health club allowances