TRADE DISSEMINATION TEAM – TECHNICAL SPECIALIST - SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

CME Technology and Support Services is relentlessly focused on developing the world’s most advanced electronic trading, post trade processing and risk management systems. We are the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives market place providing risk management solutions that help drive the global economy. Our customers include leading investment and commercial banks, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, asset managers, corporations, and individual traders.
CME Group has recently agreed a long-term partnership with Google to migrate our technology infrastructure to Google Cloud in a visionary partnership to transform the global derivatives markets through technology with Google themselves investing $1bn of equity in CME.
In this role the selected candidate will join the CME Trade Dissemination product team in Belfast where they will have an opportunity to innovate and lead the future evolution of our suite of customer APIs and enterprise applications using Java, cloud and automation technologies.
With the Google Cloud migration along with DevOps and automation as driving forces to maximise customer value, we are looking for an engineer who is excited by the opportunity to hone these kinds of skills to complement their core Java skills. In this role you can expect to work with technologies such Google Cloud Platform, Argo workflows, Kubernetes, Docker and Jenkins to name but a few.
Internal mobility and flexibility are a key part to our agile approach to technology delivery. The successful candidate will play a key role in driving our success and will find opportunities to work in a variety of projects and technologies beyond their initial areas of subject matter expertise.

What to expect working in the team:

• Opportunity to lead technical evolution of CME trade dissemination product
• Ownership of significant and challenging engineering problems
• Bespoke training and mentoring opportunities to develop new skills and expertise
• Work in a team with a focus on innovation and embracing early adoption of practices and technologies.
• Strong identity and accountability for the entire value stream.
• A culture of humility, respect and trust where teams are empowered to take risks to innovate, fail fast and learn iteratively.
• Flexible home working policy.

Key Responsibilities:
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Experienced technical leader responsible for building consensus on the design and architecture plans required for complex enterprise solution delivery.

• Plays a lead role in working with product owners, architects, engineering leaders, scrum masters and technical solution engineers to successfully deliver business value.
• Provide technical direction on the emerging architecture of the product.
• Support Architecture Review Processes
• Completes research and conducts POCs on new technologies and complex solutions
• Works ahead - ensuring the product architecture is responsive to evolving needs.
• Comes up with technical road-maps to drive forward application architecture to meet product vision
• A team player - Assists the teams as required to achieve delivery milestones
• Utilises the expertise of the team to develop architecture through consensus and team approach.
• Works with the domain and enterprise architecture teams, to gain an understanding of the evolving enterprise, in order to make efficient decisions on application architecture, and priorities.
• Plays a lead role in preliminary story review, providing constructive feedback and input on both work effort estimation as well as architecture/design improvements.
• Builds a strong network of trusted relationships across the organisation in order to achieve results and to effectively communicate vision and status both within/across teams.
• Drives continuous improvement efforts by identifying and championing practical means of reducing time to market while maintaining high quality products (i.e. – process improvements/automation opportunities).

Preferred Experience:
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Bachelor’s degree (with honours) or equivalent/better strongly preferred, but substantial relevant experience could substitute

• Significant experience in providing technical oversight and direction to projects, either as a development lead, architect or development manager
• Strong knowledge of architectural design patterns, associated technologies and platforms
• Strong knowledge and experience of SDLC methodologies; agile is a big advantage.
• Significant experience in building software enterprise solutions using skills in:
• Web Service architecture and API design
• Distributed system design scalability and resiliency
• Real time data platforms
• Google Cloud Services: GCE, GKE, Cloud SQL, Big Query, APIGEE etc
• Networking concepts: TCP, Load Balancers
• Messaging middleware: Kafka, PubSub
• Software architecture design, Object Oriented design, Data structures and algorithms
• Strong core Java development skills
• Spring Framework Ecosystem
• Experience in building technical solutions to running enterprise applications in the cloud.

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• Plays a lead role in working with product owners, architects, engineering leaders, scrum masters and technical solution engineers to successfully deliver business value.
• Provide technical direction on the emerging architecture of the product.
• Support Architecture Review Processes
• Completes research and conducts POCs on new technologies and complex solutions
• Works ahead - ensuring the product architecture is responsive to evolving needs.
• Comes up with technical road-maps to drive forward application architecture to meet product vision
• A team player - Assists the teams as required to achieve delivery milestones
• Utilises the expertise of the team to develop architecture through consensus and team approach.
• Works with the domain and enterprise architecture teams, to gain an understanding of the evolving enterprise, in order to make efficient decisions on application architecture, and priorities.
• Plays a lead role in preliminary story review, providing constructive feedback and input on both work effort estimation as well as architecture/design improvements.
• Builds a strong network of trusted relationships across the organisation in order to achieve results and to effectively communicate vision and status both within/across teams.
• Drives continuous improvement efforts by identifying and championing practical means of reducing time to market while maintaining high quality products (i.e. – process improvements/automation opportunities)