Market Data Services – Senior Staff Engineer
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.
In this role the selected candidate will join the CME Market Data Services team in Belfast where they will have an opportunity to innovate and lead the future evolution of our real time market data distribution platform.
With the Google Cloud Platform, 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 as Google Cloud Platform’s Dataflow, Apigee, Big Query; Argo workflows, Kubernetes, Docker and Jenkins to name but a few. The real time data distribution platform provides the capability to disseminate streaming data via UDP, websockets and GCP Pub/Sub to our global customers.
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 the CME Real Time Data Distribution platform
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:
Experienced technical leader responsible for building consensus on the design and architecture plans required for complex enterprise solution delivery.
Creation of the future architectures of financial data distribution from the cloud in real time, at scale and low latencies.
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.
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.
Preferred Experience:
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:
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.
CME Group: Where Futures are Made
CME Group is the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career by shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it – all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we’re looking for more.
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