About the Role
This role involves providing end-to-end architecture development, consultancy, and assurance for projects, specifically within the Products portfolio for a client's Trading and Supply business. You will work on implementing a global Energy Trade and Risk Management (ETRM) solution on Azure to transform trading capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Provide strong leadership skills, fostering collaboration, driving consensus, and communicating complex technical concepts.
- Shape and transform the role, identifying opportunities, driving innovation, and delivering impact beyond the initial remit.
- Serve as the primary contact for architectural aspects of IT projects.
- Integrate business process, data, application, technical, and information security dimensions into cohesive IT solutions.
- Ensure solution architectures are documented using standard templates and tooling, complying with client architectural standards.
- Guide detailed designers and business analysts during the design phase.
- Review and formally approve detailed solution designs.
- Support Lead Architect and participate in Architecture Review Board sessions.
- Contribute to the documentation, enhancement, and maintenance of Reference Models.
- Elevate project deliverables to conceptual and logical architecture levels.
- Monitor emerging IT technologies and apply insights to design future-ready solutions.
- Stay informed of client IT standards and services, ensuring their incorporation into solution designs.
- Champion architectural excellence within the organisation.
- Engage with stakeholders to address architectural concerns and drive strategic improvements.
Requirements
- Minimum of 10 years’ experience in Trading IT.
- Minimum of 10 years’ experience with OpenLink Endur v14+.
- Knowledge of the end-to-end Trading Business from deal inception through to settlement.
- 10+ years in software and architecture delivery.
- Own and drive technical architecture, design, and standards for software products in Commodities Trading.
- Confidently lead architecture decisions across portfolios, managing divergent opinions.
- Create pragmatic, implementable technical designs balancing risk, complexity, cost, and value.
- TOGAF (or similar framework) experience and Enterprise Architecture tooling.
- Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders for strategic and day-to-day technical decisions.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with 5+ years' experience in trading environments.
- Listen to and interpret needs of technical and business stakeholders, manage expectations, and facilitate discussions.
- Be an active participant in the wider Tech Lead and engineering communities.
- Diagnose problems and implement innovative solutions fitting into the wider Trading picture.
- Manage dependencies, overcome obstacles, and maximize value against constraints, managing trade-offs or technical debt.
- Hands-on experience implementing OpenLink Endur, including All ‘Managers’, Domain Services, Operation Services, TPM, APM, Grid Setup, Deal Modelling.
- Hands-on experience in architecting applications into the Azure platform, including migrations/re-platforming of legacy on-premise systems.
- Engineering and architecture experience in designing and building containers, Microservices, Cloud Native applications, and federated Data platforms (Data Mesh).
- 3+ Years experience in Data Architecture including Logical data models and designing solutions using data platforms and medallion architecture.
- Strong knowledge of data management: engineering, pipeline development, warehousing, storage, lifecycle management, privacy, security.
- Experience with diverse data types: big data, high velocity streaming, IoT, low latency event triggers, longitudinal time series.
- Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Significant experience with Azure Functions, Web Apps, distributed/event-driven architecture (event hub, event bus, Kafka), ELK.
- Intermediate to advanced exposure to Azure Active Directory, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Storage, Azure Kubernetes Service, CosmosDB, Azure SQL.
- Integration experience with Confluent/Kafka, API Management, Logic Apps.
- 5+ years in CI/CD delivery using Git/GitHub, VSTS/Azure DevOps, Terraform, Ansible.
- Practical agile experience in both start-up and enterprise environments.
- Lead the engineering community to follow the client’s Engineer Management standards, ensuring consistency and reuse.
- Understand and deliver core engineering GPA objectives.
- Create a collaborative environment for technical roles to drive clear decisions and consistency.
- Address Business Process, Data, Application, Technical, and Information Security aspects of IT Solutions, documenting in High-Level Design documents.
- Coordinate and develop information with third parties (Data Architects, IRM, Support Operations teams, Business stakeholders).
Skills
- OpenLink Endur v14+
- Commodities Trading
- TOGAF
- Enterprise Architecture tooling
- Node.js
- .Net
- .Net Core
- Python
- Cloud Native Platform Development (Azure/AWS)
- React
- Micro frontend
- SQL Databases
- No SQL
- Cloud Datastores
- JVS
- OpenComponents
- SAP HANA
- Salesforce
- API management
- Multifactor authentication
- Energy Trade and Risk Management (ETRM)
- Azure Platform
- Cloud Native
- Containers
- Microservices
- Federated Data platforms (Data Mesh)
- Data Architecture
- Logical data models
- Medallion architecture
- Data management
- Data engineering
- Pipeline development
- Data warehousing
- Data storage
- Data lifecycle management
- Data privacy
- Data security
- Big data
- High velocity streaming
- IoT
- Low latency event triggers
- Longitudinal time series
- Azure Functions
- Azure Web Apps
- Distributed/event-driven architecture
- Event hub
- Event bus
- Kafka
- ELK
- Azure Active Directory
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure Data Lake
- Azure Storage
- Azure Kubernetes Service
- CosmosDB
- Azure SQL
- Confluent
- Terraform
- Ansible
- CI/CD
- Git/GitHub
- VSTS/Azure DevOps
Location
- London
Work Type
- Onsite
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years
- 5+ years
Salary/Compensations
- Inside IR35
About the Company
- Deloitte Operations is an engagement for one of our clients.
- The client operates in the Products portfolio for Trading and Supply business.
- The client is implementing a global Energy Trade and Risk Management (ETRM) solution on Azure.
