Java Architect jobs in United States, Georgia, Atlanta

Job Purpose

ICE Clear Europe’s Clearing Risk Department (“CRD”) is looking for a Risk Director to focus on developing, managing and delivering the IT Strategy for the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Help define the IT Strategy for the CRD business, build consensus with technology partners, and manage key strategic deliveries for the business
• Work with the Atlanta Technology Team to migrate key services to the central Risk Platform, with the strategic aim that London produces specific end-user analytical tooling & reporting over these services
• Work with the local BI Tableau team to migrate core reporting to this infrastructure
• Work closely with Risk Managers and Product owners to ensure that application solutions meet the business needs, with frequent agile releases to end users
• Work with the existing London team to create, maintain and support existing End User Developed Applications (EUDA); support is ordinarily limited to office hours
• Create new Rapid Application Development (RAD) tooling for front line Risk Management, building reliable applications which will be used to manage emerging Member and Client Risks
• Develop across the technology stack; the team is currently working in Python & SQL
• Work across the local technology and business team to improve agile delivery and constantly find improvements to SDLC

Knowledge and Experience

• Proven development skills in Python and SQL at a similar organization, with a minimum of 4 years of commercial development experience as part of an agile team
• Ability to build and develop technology consensus across multiple teams, ensuring short and long term goals are aligned and delivered against
• Experience with trading, clearing, fund management or a related industry highly preferred
• Understanding of iterative development methodologies such as Agile or Kanban
• Able to work in geographically spread teams, building strong relationships with colleagues in different locations
• Confident in understanding business processes and analytics, and able to translate requirements into solid, testable technical solutions
• Ability to work in a fast paced and challenging environment where business demands rightly change due to market moves or regulatory needs
• Data management experience obtained in a Financial Organisation or Consultancy working in Finance, where you have experience in embedding the importance of data modelling and management within the culture of an organization would be desirable
• Knowledge and experience of delivery solutions in Javascript would be beneficial
• Proven organizational skills with strong commitment to customer service and product delivery
• Prior experience of risk systems is desirable, with an understanding of risk management concepts including one or more of back testing, stress testing, VaR, risk metrics or default management
• Knowledge of financial derivatives products across multiple asset classes would be beneficial
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Excellent analytical skills
• Detail oriented, results-driven and self-motivated

Job Purpose

As a Senior Java Developer in Risk, you will play a key role in building mission-critical, sophisticated applications supporting the Clearing and Risk systems underpinning ICE’s global markets. You will have the opportunity to shape the modernization of ICE’s platforms through cloud-native design patterns, novel quantitative algorithms, and cutting-edge technologies. Your contributions will directly impact essential financial infrastructure on a global scale across ICE’s derivative markets and asset classes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver robust, high-performance systems and modules using Java, Spring, REST, and SQL
• Build creative, performant design and implementations consistent with established design patterns and in consideration of non-functional impacts and operational resiliency
• Take ownership of estimation, design, development, testing, production delivery, and team mentorship for critical components, applications and systems
• Drive scalability and performance optimization for systems processing millions of complex computations against immense datasets daily
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including business units, product management, quality assurance, and other stakeholders to understand system requirements and bring impactful solutions to life
• Assist in developing and ensuring complete functional and non-functional specifications
• Understand complex business logic in existing systems and transition it to new technologies and systems
• Work with system operations, database administration, and systems software in production support and defining system recovery procedures
• Identify, communicate, and develop solutions for root causes of program failures and defects
• Work in an agile and continuous integration environment with a command of SDLC tools
• Plan and execute unit tests to ensure developed code is free of functional defects
• Collaborate with business analysts and QA analysts in the design and execution of business feature, regression and integration testing

Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent
• 5+ years of experience developing with Java technologies
• Strong working knowledge of:
• Java 8+
• Object Oriented Design and related Design Patterns
• Distributed messaging via frameworks such as IBM MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, JMS
• Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring MVC, Spring Data)
• ORM technologies such as Hibernate, JPA
• Relational Databases (such as Oracle) and experience with SQL, PL/SQL
• Multi-threaded server-side development
• RESTful API design and development
• Unit testing tools such as JUnit, Mockito, and Spring Boot Test
• Proven experience in Java performance tuning, debugging and memory profiling
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern development workflows using tools like Jenkins, ArgoCD, or GitHub Actions
• Experience supporting multiple projects, managing priorities, and multi-tasking effectively
• Strong problem-solving abilities and attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal skills and able to work well in a collaborative team environment
• Excellent communication skills, particularly in articulating technical concepts to varying audiences
• Excellent technical documentation skills

Preferred

• Passion for financial markets and experience with futures and options
• Experience with quantitative financial risk models and risk management systems
• Experience developing micro-services in container-based Kubernetes platforms (OpenShift, Tanzu)
• Experience orchestrating complex microservice-based dataflows using frameworks like Apache Airflow or Netflix Conductor
• Experience working with distributed cache frameworks such as Redis or Hazelcast
• Experience with modern messaging middleware such as RabbitMQ and Kafka
• Familiarity with advanced Spring frameworks, including Gateway, Data Flow, Stream, Function, and WebFlux
• Experience integrating with native C++ libraries via JNI
• Demonstrated contributions to open-source technologies