Endur Technical Architect

London

4 months ago

Applications closed

Job Title: Endur Technical Architect

Location: 60/40 with 3 days in Canary Wharf OR Remote

Start Date: ASAP

Contract Length/End Date: 31st December with possibility of extension

Working hours: 40 hrs/week

Role Overview

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

Qualifications

Numerate degree

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.3) 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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