You will operate across a distributed application landscape and partner closely with Trading, Risk, Operations, and Technology leadership to deliver scalable, resilient, and well-governed solutions. The ideal candidate is a hands-on architect who can define target state architecture, guide engineering teams, and drive best practices across system design, integration patterns, and platform strategy.
Responsibilities:
Define and own the architecture for applications and services across the end-to-end commodities trade lifecycle.
Lead the design of integrations between ETRM platforms and surrounding systems, establishing scalable patterns and standards utilizing technologies such as Java, messaging frameworks, and enterprise data platforms.
Architect robust data flows and integration frameworks, including mapping, transformations, validations, and exception handling, ensuring data accuracy, lineage, and control.
Partner with Trading, Risk, Scheduling, Settlements, and Accounting stakeholders to translate business strategy and requirements into scalable, future-state technical architectures and roadmaps.
Provide architectural oversight for production platforms, guiding incident response, root cause analysis, and the implementation of long-term, systemic solutions.
Establish and drive best practices for operational resiliency, including monitoring, alerting, automated controls, reconciliation frameworks, and reprocessing capabilities.
Govern architecture decisions with a focus on performance, scalability, maintainability, security, and cost efficiency.
Lead design reviews and provide technical direction to engineering teams, promoting strong engineering standards, reusable patterns, and consistent integration approaches.
Drive adoption of modern SDLC and platform engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, environment strategy, and release governance.
Oversee and coordinate delivery across global and offshore development teams, ensuring alignment to architecture standards and high-quality execution.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
10+ years of experience delivering ETRM solutions and architecture within a commodity trading environment.
Proven experience leading architecture for complex, front-to-back trading ecosystems, including integration across multiple platforms and business domains.
Strong experience working with US-based leadership and global, distributed engineering teams, including offshore delivery models.
Demonstrated ability to engage senior business stakeholders and translate strategic objectives into technical architecture and execution roadmaps.
Experience with full-scale ETRM platforms. Triple Point (TPT) CommodityXL (CXL) nice to have.
Experience integrating with commodity exchanges (ICE, CME, NYMEX).
Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure, including architecture patterns and migration strategies.
Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic, and high-intensity environment, with strong ownership and responsiveness.
Technical Expertise
Architecture and design of distributed systems and integration frameworks
Event-driven and messaging architectures (Kafka, IBM MQ, TIBCO, JMS)
Java and enterprise application frameworks (J2EE, Spring)
Data platforms and databases (Oracle, AWS Redshift, PL/SQL)
API design and integration (RESTful services)
Cloud architecture (AWS, Azure)
Modern front-end frameworks (Angular or React) – Awareness Level
Scripting and automation (Windows, Linux, Python)
Employee Programs & Benefits:
CCI offers competitive benefits and programs to support our employees, their families and local communities. These include:
Competitive comprehensive medical, dental, retirement and life insurance benefits
Employee assistance & wellness programs
Parental and family leave policies
CCI in the Community: Each office has a Charity Committee and as a part of this program employees are allocated 2 days annually to volunteer at the selected charities.
Charitable contribution match program
Tuition assistance & reimbursement
Quarterly Innovation & Collaboration Awards
Employee discount program, including access to fitness facilities
Competitive paid time off
Continued learning opportunities
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