PEAK6 · 1 week ago
Staff Platform Architect
AL
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$166K/yr - $208K/yr
15+ years expApex Fintech Solutions is a leader in digital wealth management, processing millions of transactions daily to simplify access to financial markets. They are seeking a Staff Platform Architect to lead the design of a customer-focused API and integration experience while driving engineering initiatives and collaborating with various teams.
Financial ServicesInformation TechnologyTrading PlatformVenture Capital
Responsibilities
Understand Apex’ broad product portfolio and lead design of a resilient, customer focused client-facing API and integration experience
Develop and design application delivery rails that enable Apex’s products and services to be delivered to the market in a standardized way
Ensure that our API based solutions deliver value throughout the customer journey
Oversee architectural design groups that develop “best in class” engineering practices for our services by ensuring that service and components are well defined, modularized, secure, reliable, reusable, diagnosable, and actively monitored
Lead an architecture council to drive technical decisions and ensure that services fit within our overall architecture vision
Build software prototypes and conduct experiments to evaluate alternative architectures
Grow and mentor developers to develop best-practices and collectively collaborate across teams to build and integrate innovative products
Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through code and design reviews, and by using data/telemetry to make decisions
Build collaborative and productive relationships with development, product and program managers along with broader business stakeholders to define Apex’ developer experience strategy and help accomplish key business objectives
Provide project progress reports to project team, stakeholders, management, and executives
Have strong understanding of business and technical problems that teams are solving, able to work with stakeholders and teams to prioritize, clarify, and organize team’s work based on this knowledge
Identify risks, perform risk analysis, effectively manage risks; proactively raise prioritization and scheduling tradeoff decisions, escalating and identifying alternate options as appropriate; Follow defined Risk Management processes
Assess existing processes and identify opportunities for improvement
Qualification
Required
Proven track record of navigating the company and influencing and inspiring peers
Readiness to travel occasionally
Experience gathering and translating business and technical requirements
Strong sense of personal accountability
Experience in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or similar cloud platform
Deep expertise in Java (or other modern software languages like .NET or Go)
Experience with REST and microservices
Expertise in Agile and other software development methodologies and practices
Financial services background preferred
BA, BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
15+ years of software engineering experience
Domain knowledge in large scale API integrations
Domain knowledge in financial information architecture
Engineering process and methodology for large scale design, development, project execution and integration
Demonstrated leadership abilities in creating clarity, generating energy, and delivering success
Demonstrated ability to lead with integrity and remain calm during stressful situations while managing multiple demands and priorities
Demonstrated technical leadership to provide technical guidance on technology issues, designs, and ideas
Benefits
Healthcare benefits (medical, dental and vision, EAP)
Competitive PTO
401k match
Parental leave
HSA contribution match
Paid subscription to the Calm app
Generous external learning and tuition reimbursement benefits
Hybrid work schedule
Company
PEAK6
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