AWS Architect with Java & Capital Markets

Overview

In this role you lead the architecture and delivery of large-scale AWS migration initiatives for capital markets platforms. You will collaborate with engineering, security, and business stakeholders to define migration strategies and cloud-native solutions, driving modernization of Java/Spring applications and event-driven architectures. You shape governance, best practices, and FinOps across the organization, delivering resilient, scalable cloud platforms. This is a high-impact opportunity to transform trading and post-trade systems in a regulated financial environment.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end AWS migration and modernization strategies
• Design cloud architectures leveraging AWS managed services and cloud-native patterns
• Lead application assessment, migration planning, and target-state architecture definition
• Architect highly available, resilient, and secure solutions in AWS
• Guide engineering teams in modernizing Java applications using Spring Boot and microservices
• Drive containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes/EKS
• Design and implement event-driven architectures using Kafka and AWS messaging services
• Collaborate with security, platform, and enterprise architecture teams
• Establish cloud governance, cost optimization, operational excellence, and FinOps practices
• Support CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, and cloud automation initiatives
• Provide technical leadership and architecture oversight across delivery teams
• Engage with stakeholders to align architecture with strategic objectives
• Contribute to cloud adoption roadmaps and technology transformation programs
• Capital Markets Focus: Front Office, Risk, Middle Office, Back Office, Post-Trade environments
• Trading, Clearing, Margining, Liquidity, Treasury, and Risk platforms
• Integration with Murex, Calypso, Summit, and proprietary trading platforms
• Low-latency, high-volume, business-critical financial systems

Key requirements

• Strong experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale AWS solutions
• Proven track record leading migration programs to AWS
• Deep understanding of AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Experience with EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, Route53, SQS/SNS, Secrets Manager
• Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform and/or CloudFormation
• DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong Java and Spring Boot experience
• Modernizing legacy Java and microservices
• Distributed systems and cloud-native design patterns
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Kafka-based event-driven architectures
• Performance monitoring and observability
• Experience in Investment Banking/Capital Markets/trading lifecycle and post-trade processes
• Ability to communicate with both technical and business stakeholders

• Stakeholder communication
• Technical leadership
• Mentoring and architecture oversight
• Java, Spring Boot
• Cloud-native design
• AWS services: EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, Route53, SQS, SNS, Secrets Manager

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