Principal Architect: Trading Systems & Data Platforms

Luxoft; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft is seeking a Principal Technology Architect to lead the assessment, modernization, and optimization of mission-critical electronic trading and financial-data platforms in a complex financial-services environment. You will drive architecture design, performance improvements, and resilient infrastructure while collaborating with business stakeholders and engineering teams.

The role requires deep expertise in trading systems, market-data architecture, and distributed systems, with hands-on

Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise software architecture within financial-services environments.
• Deep understanding of trading workflows and order/execution processing.
• Proficiency with FIX protocol, messaging, and exchange connectivity.

Responsibilities

• Assess current architectures to identify limitations, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Design and optimize electronic trading platforms, including market-data pipelines and order routing.
• Define and implement high-availability, DR, and business-continuity solutions.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership in solution design and implementation.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Electronic trading

FIX protocol

Distributed systems

Java/SQL

AWS cloud

Performance troubleshooting

Tools

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

Luxoft is seeking a Principal Technology Architect to lead the assessment, modernization, and optimization of mission-critical electronic trading and financial-data platforms in a complex financial-services environment. You will drive architecture design, performance improvements, and resilient infrastructure while collaborating with business stakeholders and engineering teams.

The role requires deep expertise in trading systems, market-data architecture, and distributed systems, with hands-on