Global Front-Office Platform Engineering Lead

Archer; New York (NY); On-site; USD 220,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer, in partnership with Barclays, seeks a Global Front‑Office Success Engineering Leader in New York to design, lead, and scale the FO engineering function across regions. You will collaborate with Quants and Strats to align on desk needs and drive platform improvements.

You will write Python tooling, own AWS infrastructure, and mentor a small team to deliver secure, reliable tooling and improved developer experience.

Qualifications

• Strong Python engineering experience (backend, tooling, automation, debugging).
• Hands-on expertise with AWS: IAM, S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Step Functions, CloudWatch.
• Proven experience working with Quants, Strats, or front-office engineering teams.
• Solid understanding of AI/ML concepts (inference, vector search, embeddings, RAG, evaluation).
• Strong debugging abilities across cloud infra, Python environments, containers, and pipelines.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills in high-pressure FO environments.
• Experience leading a technical team or owning a global-facing engineering function.

Responsibilities

• Lead global Front-Office engineering success across NY, London, and APAC users.
• Build trusted FO/Quants relationships and prioritize work intake globally.
• Write Python code for automation, integrations, internal utilities, and FO tooling.
• Diagnose issues across cloud (AWS), distributed systems, Python stacks, notebooks, model pipelines, and APIs.
• Guide global FO teams on secure and scalable usage of AWS services such as S3, IAM, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Step Functions, CloudWatch, CDK/CloudFormation.
• Lead and mentor a small team of engineers focused on FO success.
• Establish governance, data privacy, and secure-by-default patterns across global FO usage.
• Develop and maintain documentation and onboarding guides for FO developers.

Skills

Python engineering

FO engineering

AI/ML concepts

Debugging

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Tools

AWS

Docker

CloudWatch

Job description

Archer, in partnership with Barclays, seeks a Global Front‑Office Success Engineering Leader in New York to design, lead, and scale the FO engineering function across regions. You will collaborate with Quants and Strats to align on desk needs and drive platform improvements.

You will write Python tooling, own AWS infrastructure, and mentor a small team to deliver secure, reliable tooling and improved developer experience.