Senior Cloud Architect, BOMO & Capital Markets

Financeroles; Florida; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Accommodations during candidacy

Job summary

SMBC Group is seeking a visionary Senior Cloud Architect to lead the BOMO modernization, shaping the architectural roadmap for rates and derivatives trading platforms. You will design a scalable, event-driven cloud stack using AWS Fargate, EKS, and MSK, feeding a Databricks analytics platform while ensuring zero disruption to trading desks.

Requirements include 10+ years in IT architecture, strong Kubernetes and Terraform expertise, and Java/Python coding with excellent stakeholder communication

Qualifications

• 10+ years in IT architecture and 4+ years as a Cloud Architect in capital markets, investment banking, or fintech.

Responsibilities

• Define target BOMO architecture to support revenue growth and high transaction volumes.
• Design event-driven integration using MSK, EKS, and Fargate.
• Maintain backward compatibility to avoid disruptions upstream and downstream systems.
• Establish reusable design standards aligned with Enterprise Architecture guardrails.
• Drive automated infrastructure provisioning via Terraform with zero-trust IAM posture.
• Ensure high availability and sub-millisecond scalability with observability and self-healing systems.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes (Amazon EKS)

Terraform

Java

Python

Kafka MSK

Distributed systems

Stakeholder communication

Education

AWS Solutions Architect – Professional

Terraform Associate

CKA or CKAD

Databricks Certified Solutions Architect

Tools

AWS Fargate

Amazon EKS

Kafka / MSK

Databricks

Confluent Platform

Job description

SMBC Group is seeking a visionary Senior Cloud Architect to lead the BOMO modernization, shaping the architectural roadmap for rates and derivatives trading platforms. You will design a scalable, event-driven cloud stack using AWS Fargate, EKS, and MSK, feeding a Databricks analytics platform while ensuring zero disruption to trading desks.

Requirements include 10+ years in IT architecture, strong Kubernetes and Terraform expertise, and Java/Python coding with excellent stakeholder communication