Solutions Architect , UI in London

MarketAxess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world's largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace. Our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace.

We are seeking a hands-on Solutions Architect to join our team who has a passion and expertise in helping us build our next-gen Trading Workstation. The ideal candidate is someone who has demonstrated experience in architecting, building and operating highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant Trading platforms across a range of technologies.

You will work with the team to collaborate on software solutions and architecture and ensure exceptional software engineering practices, and good documentation. It's essential to be willing to take on new skills to meet the shifting demands of accelerating our modernization efforts to the public cloud and Kubernetes world.

A critical success factor is being viewed as a trusted partner and collaborator, including business and technology stakeholders. We embrace a culture of collaboration and experimentation while striving and encouraging all team members to focus on continuous improvement and learning.

How You'll Help Take Us There

• Provide technical vision, drive strategy, roadmaps around solutions, solve complex problems, and act as the technical owner across strategic efforts for which your team(s) are responsible.
• Own the services your team delivers – from requirements gathering, design, development, testing, to production – and support the platform, while establishing repeatable processes and methods that ensure high productivity, quality, and reliability.
• Define the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the firm's target-state architecture vision.
• Lead a team of engineers in identifying and implementing well-architected, cloud-native solutions that deliver the best possible experience for our clients and engineering teams.
• Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as understanding emerging technology trends and disruptions.

What We're Looking for

• 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with 5+ in solution architecture and 3+ in a cloud computing environment.
• Adept at building client-side applications using React and TypeScript and have strong experience in designing and implementing GraphQL schemas.
• 5+ years of streaming and event processing architectures and platforms (e.g., Kafka).
• Strong understanding of UX/UI design principles and a passion for creating intuitive user interfaces.
• Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies.
• Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences.
• Minimum of 3 years of people management experience leading global teams.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject.

Characteristics

• Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business, IT leaders and engineering teams.
• Displays humility, drive, intellectual curiosity, and integrity.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead cross-functional teams.

What You Can Expect from Us

• Central Location: based at our city offices near St Paul's.
• Free Food: We provide lunch each day of the week when the employee attends the office.
• Paid Time Off: 25 days annual leave entitlement plus 2 charity days.
• Core benefits: private medical (PMI) for family, Cash Plan, health screenings, dental cover, and more.
• Tuition Assistance and Professional Training: Benefit from on-demand learning, boot camps, and opportunities to attend conferences.