Role: Principal Engineer

Role Overview
We are looking for a Principal Engineer (C# and Java), who will be responsible for developing and maintaining enterprise-level applications for post-trade affirmation and confirmation workflows including real-time message processing. This role will also provide Technical Leadership.

Role Responsibilities

• Act as the primary technical leader and developer for the STP Team. The rest of the team will seek technical direction and decision making from this Role.
• Skilled in the development of message consumption, transformation and publishing capability
• Maintain code quality through comprehensive testing and code reviews
• L3 Support for deployment and investigation of production issues where appropriate.
• Follow SaFe agile methodology and participate in agile ceremonies and processes.
• Mentor junior members of the team.
• Ability to work with multiple remote regions.
• Work with architecture and DevOps teams to follow guidelines and implementations.
• Follow standard SDLC processes, design patterns for development guidelines.

• Multiple years of professional experience in global financial services. Messaging, trade confirmations, clearing, STP and 3 ^rd party messaging vendor integrations (Markitwire, ICELink, LCH etc) an advantage
• Proven expertise in server-side design and development within banking and trading environments
• Microsoft.net, Java Development: Advanced proficiency in enterprise C# [.net technology] & Java development
• FIX Protocol: Hands-on experience with FIX Protocol and FIX Engines (eg QFJ, Rapid Addition, UlBridge) an advantage
• XML Experience large % of role is consumption, manipulation and publishing of data from various end points
• Middleware: Some knowledge of interfacing with Solace and Tibco messaging middleware
• Cloud Platforms: Experience deploying and managing applications on AWS (EC2/EKS)
• CI/CD: Proficiency with Jenkins and GitLab for deployment and continuous integration
• Database: Solid SQL Server experience (including writing complex queries) and database management
• Testing:
• Excellent problem-solving abilities with strong attention to detail
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills in team environments.
• Experience working in Agile development methodologies (SaFe/Scrum).

• Understanding of post-trade confirmation and affirmation workflows
• Experience in electronic trading environments and market data systems
• Observability: Grafana for monitoring and metrics
• Testing: Cucumber for behaviour-driven development and automation testing
• Infrastructure: Terraform or Ansible for infrastructure as code
• Containerization : Kubernetes and AWS EKS experience