Principal Architect, Electronic Trading & Market Data

DXC Luxoft; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft is seeking a Principal Technology Architect to modernize electronic trading and financial data platforms. You will assess current architectures, identify risks, and design high‑throughput, fault‑tolerant systems across on‑premise and cloud environments.

You’ll collaborate with business stakeholders and engineering teams to deliver actionable recommendations, drive architectural standards, and lead critical components with hands‑on leadership.

Qualifications

• Extensive enterprise software architecture experience in financial-services.
• Strong background in electronic trading systems and capital markets.
• Hands-on with FIX messaging, exchange connectivity, and order routing.
• Proven distributed systems, high-throughput, fault-tolerant design.
• Data ingestion, transformation, reconciliation, and persistence.
• Advanced Java and SQL development; relational DBs (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• Experience with AWS cloud, security, monitoring, and DR.
• Independent architecture assessments with actionable recommendations.
• Clear communication with senior leadership and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Assess architectures to identify risks and improvement opportunities.
• Design and optimize electronic trading platforms including market-data pipelines.
• Review data ingestion, transformation, and reporting processes.
• Architect high-throughput, scalable distributed systems.
• Evaluate FIX messaging and exchange connectivity and recovery.
• Define high-availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
• Assess cloud security, monitoring, and deployment practices.
• Lead modernization while preserving critical business functions.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Electronic trading

Order lifecycle and execution

FIX protocol

Distributed systems

Data architecture

Java/SQL

Performance troubleshooting

Communication with leadership

Tools

AWS

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

REST/WebSocket APIs

Job description

Luxoft is seeking a Principal Technology Architect to modernize electronic trading and financial data platforms. You will assess current architectures, identify risks, and design high‑throughput, fault‑tolerant systems across on‑premise and cloud environments.

You’ll collaborate with business stakeholders and engineering teams to deliver actionable recommendations, drive architectural standards, and lead critical components with hands‑on leadership.