Post Trade Architect

Tower Research Capital, a high-frequency proprietary trading firm founded in 1998, seeks a Senior Engineer to join our Post-Trade & Finance Technology team.

The Post-Trade & Finance Technology division is responsible for providing comprehensive and accurate transactional through robust reconciliation processes focusing on efficiency through automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and architecture for the Post-Trade platform, ensuring alignment with Tower’s overall technology direction while effectively weighing trade-offs.
• Architect, develop, and optimize tools for key areas such as Reference Data Management, Trade Capture, Reconciliation, P&L, Trade Cost Management, Surveillance, Compliance, and Regulatory Reporting.
• Collaborate closely with Core Engineering to ensure consistency and integration across platforms. 
• Work with global stakeholders to translate business needs into robust, scalable technical solutions, facilitating efficient execution of business functions.
• Drive the end-to-end design and development of projects/products, fostering innovation in building the next generation of middle-office and back-office applications.
• Advocate and implement process improvements, focusing on automation, better monitoring tools, and continuous integration/delivery practices.
• Ensure the architecture supports a data-intensive environment, optimizing for performance, reliability, and scalability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in designing and improving complex information systems, with a strong emphasis on data-intensive architectures.
• Deep proficiency in both Java and Python, with experience in building and optimizing data ETL pipelines.
• Comprehensive understanding of Kubernetes, with the ability to manage and optimize development environments within a CI/CD framework.
• Extensive experience with RDBMS, coupled with familiarity with NoSQL databases.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to write clearly and communicate decisions and trade-offs decisively.
• Linux system administration skills, along with knowledge of shell scripting.
• Prior experience in the financial services domain is a strong plus

Benefits

Tower continues to enhance the in-house trading system and strategies that have positioned the firm as a leader in the thriving field of quantitative trading. While Tower offers challenges and rewards rivaling those of any Wall Street firm, Tower’s cubicle-free workplace, jeans-clad workforce, and well-stocked kitchens reflect the premium the firm places on the quality of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
• 5 weeks of paid vacation per year
• Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks on a daily basis
• Cab facility within Gurgaon
• Health club allowances