Sr Staff Software Engineer

Market Data Services – Senior Staff Engineer

CME Technology and Support Services is relentlessly focused on developing the world's most advanced electronic trading, post trade processing and risk management systems. We are the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives market place providing risk management solutions that help drive the global economy. Our customers include leading investment and commercial banks, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, asset managers, corporations, and individual traders.

In this role the selected candidate will join the CME Market Data Services team in Belfast where they will have an opportunity to innovate and lead the future evolution of our suite of Derived Data products.

With the Google Cloud Platform, DevOps and automation as driving forces to maximise customer value, we are looking for an engineer who is excited by the opportunity to hone these kinds of skills to complement their core Java skills. In this role you can expect to work with technologies such as Google Cloud Platform’s Dataflow, EventArc, Big Query; Argo workflows, Kubernetes, Docker and Jenkins to name but a few.

Internal mobility and flexibility are a key part to our agile approach to technology delivery. The successful candidate will play a key role in driving our success and will find opportunities to work in a variety of projects and technologies beyond their initial areas of subject matter expertise.

What to expect working in the team:

• Opportunity to lead technical evolution of CME Derived Data products
• Ownership of significant and challenging engineering problems
• Bespoke training and mentoring opportunities to develop new skills and expertise
• Work in a team with a focus on innovation and embracing early adoption of practices and technologies.
• Strong identity and accountability for the entire value stream.
• A culture of humility, respect and trust where teams are empowered to take risks to innovate, fail fast and learn iteratively.
• Flexible home working policy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Experienced technical leader responsible for building consensus on the design and architecture plans required for complex enterprise solution delivery.
• Re-architecting C# .Net applications into cloud native and java based applications.
• Plays a lead role in working with product owners, architects, engineering leaders, scrum masters and technical solution engineers to successfully deliver business value.
• Designing Real Time Data products using Data Engineering technology at scale and low latencies.
• Provide technical direction on the emerging architecture of the product.
• Support Architecture Review Processes
• Completes research and conducts POCs on new technologies and complex solutions
• Works ahead - ensuring the product architecture is responsive to evolving needs.
• Comes up with technical road-maps to drive forward application architecture to meet product vision
• A team player - Assists the teams as required to achieve delivery milestones
• Utilises the expertise of the team to develop architecture through consensus and team approach.
• Works with the domain and enterprise architecture teams, to gain an understanding of the evolving enterprise, in order to make efficient decisions on application architecture, and priorities.
• Plays a lead role in preliminary story review, providing constructive feedback and input on both work effort estimation as well as architecture/design improvements.