Job Details

Principal Architect

Front Office - Investment Management | Equity Trading | Trade Execution

• Lead / Mentor 5 developers
• Supporting Front Office Traders, PMs, Research
• Influence architecture and delivery across EMS centric trading workflows
• Focus on Equities, Futures, FX, Options

• Location: Battery Park City
• Hybrid: 4 days in office
• Compensation: 200k - 220k base + bonus
• PTO: Unlimited
• Benefits: Exceptional

• Architect, design & develop EMS customizations & interfaces
• Optimize end-to-end trade workflows
• Balance delivery across:
  • New development: 30%
  • Enhancements: 50%
  • Maintenance: 20%
• Backend: 70% | Frontend: 30%
• Partner with: Traders, Quants, Portfolio Managers, Product Owner
• Provide architectural direction aligned with future-state platforms.
• Drive AI adoption to increase development efficiency & velocity.
• Troubleshoot & resolve performance & stability issues.

• Java (50%)
• Java Swing (30% for custom interfaces to EMS platform)
• SQL Server (10%) | VB.net (10%)
• Trading Platforms: CRIMS, Portware EMS
• AWS, Snowflake, Kafka
• Agile, Microservices,
• TDD, Unit Testing (Pytest, UnitTest)
• GIT Co-pilot, Eclipse, VS Code, Jira, Confluence, Docker,

• Java | JavaScript
• AWS, Snowflake, Kafka
• Trading Platforms: Aladdin, CRIMS, Portware EMS
• DevSecOps
• Implementation of AI tools

• Directly Supporting Front Office Trade Execution
• Deep understanding and experience with Equity Trading Workflows
• Investment Management
• Capital markets
• Clear, Decisive Communication
• Strong presentation and leadership presence
• Expert-level Java (Java 8+) Architect, Design, Concept, Implementation
• 4+ years architecture experience (microservices and related patterns)
• Cloud-native development experience (AWS preferred)
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks
• OMS/EMS (Portware, CRD, Aladdin, etc)