A financial firm is looking for a Head of Markets Technology Architecture to join their team in New York, NY.

Compensation: $240-260k

Responsibilities:

• Set architecture and technical direction for the entire organization delivering to key projects and portfolios.
• Work with Enterprise Architecture to develop, analyze, and implement key technical components, frameworks, and approaches.
• Lead technical planning, definition, and design of complex features that require coordination across multiple teams and technologies.
• Select appropriate technology tools for solutions, adhering to company guidelines and release processes.
• Work across business and technology to create the solution and vision from a technology solutions approach.

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor, Master's, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Statistics or related STEM field.
• 15+ years of experience in building out front-to-back financial trading systems across fixed income cash and derivative products.
• Experience as a technology architect.
• Experience designing and implementing cross-product trading and risk systems.
• Experience with trading operations systems including market data and transactional system middleware.
• Experience with one of the messaging frameworks like Kafka, Rabbit-MQ or IBM MQ.
• Experience building microservices.
• Experience deploying to cloud environments.