Infrastructure Architect – Cloud, Low Latency, Financial Services, Real-time Data

Job title : Infrastructure Architect – Cloud, Low Latency, Financial Services, Real-time Data
Location : London
Job type : Contract
Salary : £800 - £900 per day
Sector : Sell Side
Contact : Patrick Jordan
Call : 0207 280 9913
Email : email Patrick
Reference : BH-17627-1
Infrastructure Architect – Cloud, Low Latency, Financial Services, Real-time Data

My client, a leading financial services organisation, are currently looking for an expert Infrastructure Architect to join the team to help it define the company’s next generation infrastructure platform.

As a member of the architecture team, the successful candidate will have a major role in terms of shaping overall technology and platform strategy. Some of the main responsibilities will include:
  • Architectural oversight for key elements of the real time market data platform
  • Leads the analysis, definition, design, and provides oversight for construction, testing, installation, and modification across multiple large interdependent systems.
  • Use an agile methodology throughout the breadth of project responsibilities.
  • Regularly shares knowledge with colleagues on technical topics.
  • Investigates and evaluates new technologies, especially those that pertain to real time, high performance computing, and cloud computing
  • Thought leadership, especially in terms of sharing key ideas, concepts, and strategies, at all levels of the organization
Candidates must have:
  • Understanding of high performance compute environments
  • Technologies and techniques for deployment automation within large scale compute infrastructure
  • Understanding of real time market data technology, especially low latency and ultra-low latency real time market data distribution
  • Message bus technology experience
  • Distributed computing platform experience
  • Financial technology experience
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced architect to join a high=profile brand in a period of rapid change

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