Application Infrastructure Architect
Senior Application Architect, Linux, Middleware, TCP-IP, Unix, Oracle, Databases, Cloud, Virtualization
This is an excellent opportunity for someone to wants to dig deeper in the world of applications and work on a truly global infrastructure and architecture large changes and implementations across the business.
• Aligning strategies with the business application teams
• Supporting appropriate solutions and designs to meet resiliency and stability requirements
• Proactively managing and reducing risk in the infrastructure environment, including stability, resilience, currency, and security risk
• Driving financial consumption optimizations levers to create capacity creation opportunities (increase ROI)
Skills and knowledge required:
• proven experience in Infrastructure/ Technical Architecture and/or solutions engineering and design experience.
• Strong understanding of networking and distributed systems (Virtualization, Kubernetes containers, DBMS).
• Highly experienced with messaging middleware (MQ, Kafka, Solace), transformational middleware (Abinitio), and application middleware (Tomcat)
• Experienced with design, delivery, and driving operational best practices in AWS or Azure platforms
• Past investment banking, payments, and trading systems preferred
• Architecture experience within large Financial Services (desirable) or Telco, Healthcare companies
• Experience with building systems factoring in High Availability, Performance, and Capacity scalability for the future
• Experience of a global working environment across multiple business areas, functions, and locations is a plus
Senior Application Architect, Linux, Middleware, TCP-IP, Unix, Oracle, Databases, Cloud, Virtualization
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
email - as they go live.
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Senior Java Developer - Front Office Fixed income Trading
Location - London
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Working environment - Hybrid
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Global investment bank seeking a highly skilled Senior AVP-level Java Developer to join their front office Fixed income trading team at a global investment bank in London. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Java development, as well as a strong understanding of financial markets and Fixed income trading.
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- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code
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- Knowledge of financial markets and Fixed income trading
- Experience with low-latency and high-throughput systems ideally
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