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Lead Architect, Infrastructure Solutions

2 months ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States The Options Clearing Corporation Full time

About The Options Clearing Corporation

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) stands as the premier clearing entity for equity derivatives globally. Established in 1973, OCC is committed to fostering market stability and integrity by providing comprehensive clearing and settlement services for options, futures, and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the oversight of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. With over 100 clearing members, OCC delivers central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms.

What We Provide

We cultivate a highly collaborative and supportive atmosphere that promotes work-life balance and employee wellness. Key offerings include:

  • A hybrid work model allowing up to 2 days of remote work per week
  • Tuition Reimbursement to support ongoing education
  • Student Loan Repayment Assistance
  • Technology Stipend for device flexibility while working remotely
  • Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) and Parental leave
  • Competitive health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage

Position Overview

As part of the Office of Technology Strategy & Innovation (OTSI), which focuses on technology strategy, research, and development, you will play a pivotal role in architectural design, problem-solving, and security. You will work with a small team of Architects to collaborate with development teams, Solutions Architects, vendors, and other stakeholders to define and implement architectural vision, ensuring continuous improvement of solutions operating on OCC's core real-time data streaming and compute infrastructure platforms, including Kafka, Flink, and Kubernetes in a hybrid environment.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Engage with cross-functional teams to design, create, and evaluate software application architectures specifically for streaming use cases.
  • Guarantee fault tolerance, scalability, and low-latency processing in streaming applications.
  • Collaborate with DevOps teams to establish deployment strategies and manage scalability.
  • Enhance streaming application performance through configuration optimization, resource utilization monitoring, and bottleneck identification.
  • Implement best practices for efficient data serialization, compression, and network communication.
  • Develop and maintain architecture documentation, including system diagrams, data flows, and component interactions.
  • Manage vendor relationships and participate in escalation sessions and postmortems.
  • Assess and recommend tools and frameworks that improve the performance and reliability of our streaming systems.
  • Stay updated on industry trends related to Kafka, Flink, and Kubernetes.

Qualifications:

  • [Required] Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate and promote best practices with technical stakeholders.
  • [Required] Advanced problem-solving abilities and a logical approach to addressing challenges.
  • [Required] Experience executing spikes and providing code samples that demonstrate best practices in developing solutions on Kafka and Flink.
  • [Required] Proficiency with DevOps tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines.

Technical Expertise:

  • Expert-level knowledge of Kafka and Flink.
  • In-depth understanding of on-premises networking and hybrid connectivity to cloud services like AWS and Azure.
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and various cloud services.
  • Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation.
  • Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.

Education and Experience:

  • [Preferred] Bachelor's or Master's degree in an engineering discipline.
  • [Required] Over 10 years of experience in architecting mission-critical cloud and on-premises real-time data streaming and event-driven architectures.
  • [Required] More than 10 years of experience with Java.
  • [Required] At least 5 years of specific experience with Kafka and Flink.
  • [Preferred] 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes.

Certifications:

  • [Preferred] Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka.
  • [Preferred] AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect Associate).
  • [Preferred] Certified Kubernetes Application Developer.

Next Steps

When you find a position that interests you, please follow the application process outlined on our website.

The Options Clearing Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.