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Lead Solution Architect - Energy Sector

Randstad (Schweiz) AG

Kuala Lumpur

On-site

MYR 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Job summary

A leading company is seeking an experienced Lead Solution Architect to enhance their Gas and Power trading platform. The role requires extensive expertise in modern design architectures and stakeholder management while ensuring alignment with business goals. Candidates must possess strong analytical skills and a deep understanding of the energy trading landscape.

Qualifications

  • Must have extensive experience in physical trading, particularly in Gas or Power.
  • Deep knowledge of data modeling and real-time reporting techniques.
  • Strong analytical skills and ability to work in teams or independently.

Responsibilities

  • Re-architect and design a next generation Gas and Power trading platform.
  • Conduct requirement gathering and manage stakeholder communications.
  • Serve as a key advisor during design reviews.

Skills

Energy trading knowledge
Data modeling
AWS familiarity
Agile methodology
Problem-solving
Communication

Tools

Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
MongoDB
C#/Java
CI/CD tools

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Lead Solution Architect to join our dynamic team in Kuala Lumpur. The ideal candidate will possess extensive expertise in designing and implementing complex solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives while leveraging the latest technologies.

Contract Duration 6months

What You'll Do:

Work directly with subject matter experts, Product owners. designers, technical leads and other architects to re-architect/design needs of next generation Gas and Power trading platform with modern technologies, consistent with business and technology strategies. Deep knowledge of energy trading and risk management processes across front, middle and back-office functionalities with an emphasis on physical trading.

  • Expert in designing the architecture of modern, bespoke Energy trading systems, including documenting and agreeing key design decisions and trade-offs across diverse stakeholders.
  • Perform requirement gathering, analysis and design across functional, non-functional technical, and operational domains.
  • Thought leader in respective domain, will be the key advisor to delivery and design reviews.
  • Handling business changes and managing stakeholder expectations
  • Manage communication across multiple teams, vendors, and consulting staff
  • Knowledge of deal lifecycle

Key Skills:

  • Strong functional understanding of physical trading preferably Gas and/or Power, ideally including complex contract optionality and portfolio and schedule optimization, Knowledge of Options modelling and Dependency graphs.
  • Demonstrated capability across most of the following architecture facets:
  • Data – Deep knowledge of data modelling for both transactional and analytic use cases, familiarity with real-time reporting techniques (including distributed caching), vendor and bespoke reporting tools, data migration and reconciliation techniques and tools. Familiarity with MongoDB unstructured Database.
  • Technical – Hands-on Expert with demonstrated experience in architecture and design patterns, their usage, implementation and implications, including documenting and agreeing the design inclusive of the trade-offs for commodity trading systems. Familiarity with core AWS product offerings; code development (C#/Java); microservice containerization tools (Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes); web UI development (React). Must understand Infrastructure as a Code (Terraform)
  • Integration - Expert experience with integration techniques, including real-time messaging (AMQ), API design (JSON, Swagger), and batch techniques.
  • Infrastructure and Operational – Familiarity with DevOps practices, including CI/CD, automated deployments via Ansible, GIT Repositories. cloud infrastructure offerings, Grid Computing elasticity, and cost optimization.
  • Thorough understanding of Agile delivery methodology
  • Candidate must be able to work in small teams, or alone, for project delivery
  • Candidate should be able to exhibit strong analytical and problem-solving skills, to deliver high quality solutions to clients
  • Candidate should be able to liaise with other teams to resolve cross functional issues
  • Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Technical Must Have Skills: Familiarity with Microservices architecture and related technologies (containerization, messaging, caching). Familiarity with Cloud hosting (AWS).
  • Functional Must Have Skills: Full Lifecycle Physical Energy Trading Experience, ideally in Power and/or Gas markets.
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