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Associate Director @ Few&Far - Head of Contract Solutions Architect - Front Office Trading We’re supporting a financial services client who is looking for an experienced Solutions Architect to join them on a 5 month contract, helping to assess and strengthen the resilience and scalability of critical low latency Front Office trading systems.
Rate: Up to £750 per day
IR35: Inside IR35
Duration: 5 months
Location: London, 1–2 days per week onsite or Paris 1-2 days a week onsite
The Role You’ll perform a deep-dive architectural assessment of key Front Office applications, identifying opportunities to improve resilience, scalability, and performance. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you’ll provide clear recommendations aligned with best-practice engineering principles and real world trading constraints.
Foreign Exchange pre-trading (Spot & Options)
Low latency, high-throughput trading systems
Software architecture & engineering best practices
Microservices and event driven architectures
CI/CD, deployment & release management
Performance, stress & resilience testing
Observability & monitoring
High availability, automated failover & disaster recovery
Elastic scalability (scale-up / scale-out)
Exchange connectivity
FIX protocol
gRPC
Servers & operating systems
Messaging platforms
Databases & caching
If you are interested in the role please apply below!
Seniority level Mid-Senior level
Employment type Contract
Job function Information Technology
Industries Investment Banking and IT Services and IT Consulting
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