Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Endur Technical Architect will work closely with various stakeholders to redesign the Gas and Power trading platform using modern technologies. This role requires deep knowledge of energy trading processes and the ability to manage stakeholder expectations while ensuring effective communication across teams. The architect will be responsible for designing bespoke energy trading systems and leading design reviews. The position is remote or based in Canary Wharf, with a contract lasting until December 31, 2025, with a possibility of extension.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design the architecture of modern energy trading systems and document key design decisions.
- Perform requirement gathering, analysis, and design across various domains.
- Act as a thought leader and key advisor during delivery and design reviews.
- Manage communication across multiple teams, vendors, and consulting staff.
- Handle business changes and manage stakeholder expectations.
- Provide expertise in the deal lifecycle.
Key Skills:
- Strong functional understanding of physical trading, preferably in Gas and/or Power.
- Expertise in data modeling for transactional and analytic use cases.
- Hands-on experience with architecture and design patterns.
- Familiarity with AWS products, microservice containerization tools, and web UI development.
- Expertise in integration techniques and API design.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices and Agile delivery methodology.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Job Title: Endur Technical Architect
Job Location: Remote or Canary Wharf
Contract Length: Until 31st December 2025 (Possibility of extension)
Industry: Power and Gas
Working Hours: 8 per day/ 40 per week
Role Overview: Work directly with subject matter experts, Product owners. designers, technical leads and other architects to re-architect/design needs of next generation Gas and Power trading platform with modern technologies, consistent with business and technology strategies. Deep knowledge of energy trading and risk management processes across front, middle and back-office functionalities with an emphasis on physical trading.
What you will do:
- Expert in designing the architecture of modern, bespoke Energy trading systems, including documenting and agreeing key design decisions and trade-offs across diverse stakeholders.
- Perform requirement gathering, analysis and design across functional, non-functional technical, and operational domains.
- Thought leader in respective domain, will be the key advisor to delivery and design reviews.
- Handling business changes and managing stakeholder expectations
- Manage communication across multiple teams, vendors, and consulting staff
- Knowledge of deal lifecycle
What you will have:
- Strong functional understanding of physical trading preferably Gas and/or Power, ideally including complex contract optionality and portfolio and schedule optimization, Knowledge of Options modelling and Dependency graphs.
- Demonstrated capability across most of the following architecture facets:
- Data – Deep knowledge of data modelling for both transactional and analytic use cases, familiarity with real-time reporting techniques (including distributed caching), vendor and bespoke reporting tools, data migration and reconciliation techniques and tools. Familiarity with MongoDB unstructured Database.
- Technical – Hands-on Expert with demonstrated experience in architecture and design patterns, their usage, implementation and implications, including documenting and agreeing the design inclusive of the trade-offs for commodity trading systems. Familiarity with core AWS product offerings; code development (C#/Java); microservice containerization tools (Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes); web UI development (React).
- Must understand Infrastructure as a Code (Terraform)
- Integration - Expert experience with integration techniques, including real-time messaging (AMQ), API design (JSON, Swagger), and batch techniques.
- Infrastructure and Operational – Familiarity with DevOps practices, including CI/CD, automated deployments via Ansible, GIT Repositories. cloud infrastructure offerings, Grid Computing elasticity, and cost optimization.
- Thorough understanding of Agile delivery methodology
- Candidate must be able to work in small teams, or alone, for project delivery
- Candidate should be able to exhibit strong analytical and problem-solving skills, to deliver high quality solutions to clients
- Candidate should be able to liaise with other teams to resolve cross functional issues
- Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills
Technical Must Have Skills:
- Familiarity with Microservices architecture and related technologies (containerization, messaging, caching).
- Familiarity with Cloud hosting (AWS).
Functional Must Have Skills:
- Full Lifecycle Physical Energy Trading Experience, ideally in Power and/or Gas markets.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.