Architect & Senior Developer

• Oversee the firm's architecture across trading, clearing, and post-trade systems and the integrations with CCPs, exchanges, data and platform vendors, as well as customers

• Direct the modernisation of integration patterns and frameworks, reinforcing strong security principles and practices

• Steer the data architecture strategy, supporting business objectives and ensuring data quality, ownership, security and accessibility.

• Chair architecture governance forums, encouraging participation and debate while driving timely, effective architectural decisions.

• Produce clear architecture documentation, architectural decision records, target-state blueprints, and other artefacts for review and audit

• Design resilient systems meeting the firm's RTO/RPO requirements and FCA operational resilience obligations

• Meet regulatory obligations by design, including FCA/ESMA EMIR & MiFID II requirements, DORA as well as other relevant, impactful global obligations

• Contribute to the firm’s change management and incident management frameworks.

• Mentor and upskill engineering teams on architecture principles, cloud-native patterns, & best practices

• Drive adoption of DevSecOps practices and infrastructure-as-code across the technology teams

• Support defining and governing the firm’s use of AI, ensuring solutions are secure, explainable, and compliant with regulatory expectations, data protection requirements, and internal risk guidance.

• Deep domain knowledge of financial markets technology within an FCM, clearing broker, investment bank, exchange, or vendor

• Proven experience designing systems for listed derivatives, securities, and/or FX processing

• Thorough understanding of order processing, execution, risk management, margining, collateral, valuation and give-up processing

• Strong knowledge of FIX protocol, along with CCP or vendor connectivity (e.g. ICE Clearing, Eurex, LME, CME etc)

• Extensive experience with event-driven architectures, message brokers (Kafka, IBM MQ), and real-time data pipelines

• Knowledge of UK/EU/US regulatory frameworks: EMIR, MiFID II, CASS, MAR, DORA, CFTC

• Proficiency in microservices architectures, as well as containerisation

• Cloud architecture expertise (preferably Azure), with experience migrating or running regulated financial workloads in cloud environments

• Expertise in .Net / C# / SQL Server; React.js and Python desirable

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting to both C-suite and technical stakeholders

• University degree (ideally in Computer Science or related field)

• 10+ years of software engineering or infrastructure experience, with at least 3 years in a senior architecture role

• Challenging tasks, short decision-making processes and a high level of personal responsibility in a modern work environment with flexible work time models.

• Room for innovative thinking and growth with the possibility to manage your own career path.

• A company culture which promotes continuous learning and diversity. To assist with this all colleagues are able to join our Women’s and Multicultural Employee Resource Groups, and the ADM Pride Employee Network and the Young Professionals Network. As well as the company wide mentorship programme as mentor or mentee.

• Excellent career opportunities in a world leading nutrition company.

• An attractive remuneration including a variety of social benefits like subsidised health & fitness offers.

• ADM is a company where managers and colleagues are encouraged to discuss and enable the flexibility that is needed to meet the demands of work and life.

• Additional benefits and support for maternity and paternity leave.

• ADM are an advocate of having a workforce who are aware of their mental health. In addition to our network of Mental Health First Aiders, all new starters to the business will be enrolled in ‘Mental Health Aware’ training within three months of joining the business.