AWS Architect with Java & Capital Markets

Project description

DXC Luxoft Financial Services is a global technology partner to leading investment banks, exchanges, clearing houses, and capital markets institutions. We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Architect with a strong Java background to join a strategic cloud modernization and migration program for a major financial services client.

In this role, you will lead the architecture and delivery of large-scale AWS migration initiatives, helping transform complex trading and post-trade platforms from legacy environments into modern, scalable, cloud-native solutions. You will work closely with engineering, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders to define migration strategies, modernize applications, and establish cloud best practices across the organization.

The ideal candidate combines deep AWS architecture expertise with hands-on Java experience and a strong understanding of Capital Markets platforms, trading workflows, and financial technology environments.

Responsibilities

This initiative focuses on:

• Cloud migration and modernization of Capital Markets applications to AWS
• Design and implementation of cloud-native and microservices-based architectures
• Modernization of Java/Spring applications for cloud deployment
• Establishment of AWS architecture standards, governance, and security controls
• Migration of distributed systems toward scalable, resilient, event-driven architectures
• Integration with trading, market data, risk, settlements, and post-trade platforms
• Adoption of DevOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, and automated deployment pipelines

Key Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end AWS migration and modernization strategies

• Design cloud architectures leveraging AWS managed services and cloud-native patterns

• Lead application assessment, migration planning, and target-state architecture definition

• Architect highly available, resilient, and secure solutions in AWS

• Guide engineering teams in modernizing Java applications using Spring Boot and microservices

• Drive containerization and orchestration initiatives using Docker and Kubernetes/EKS

• Design and implement event-driven architectures using Kafka and AWS messaging services

• Collaborate with security, platform, and enterprise architecture teams

• Establish cloud governance, cost optimization, operational excellence, and FinOps practices

• Support CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, and cloud automation initiatives

• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and architecture oversight across delivery teams

• Engage with business and technology stakeholders to align architecture with strategic objectives

• Contribute to cloud adoption roadmaps and technology transformation programs

• Capital Markets Focus

• Front Office, Risk, Middle Office, Back Office, and Post-Trade environments

• Trading, Clearing, Margining, Liquidity, Treasury, and Risk platforms

• Integration with systems such as Murex, Calypso, Summit, and proprietary trading platforms

• Low-latency, high-volume, business-critical financial systems

Skills

• Must have
• Mandatory

Description

• Cloud & Architecture

• Strong experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale AWS solutions.

• Proven track record leading application and infrastructure migration programs to AWS.

• Deep understanding of AWS Well-Architected Framework principles. Experience with AWS services such as:

• EC2

• ECS / EKS

• Lambda

• API Gateway

• RDS / Aurora

• DynamoDB

• S3

• CloudWatch

• IAM

• VPC

• Route53

• SQS / SNS

• Secrets Manager

• Experience designing resilient, scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions.

• Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.

• Experience implementing DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.

• Java & Modern Engineering

• Strong commercial experience with Java and Spring Boot.

• Experience modernizing and re-platforming legacy Java applications.

• Solid understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native design patterns.

• Experience with containerization using Docker and Kubernetes.

• Experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka.

• Strong knowledge of application performance, observability, and monitoring.

• Capital Markets

• Experience working within Investment Banking, Capital Markets, Exchanges, or Clearing Houses.

• Understanding of trading lifecycle and post-trade processing.

• Experience delivering solutions within regulated financial environments.

• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.

• Nice to have

• Nice-to-Have Skills

• Murex

• AWS Solution Architect Professional certification

• Event-driven architecture design

• Serverless architecture

• FinOps and Cloud Cost Optimization

• Python

• Data platforms and analytics workloads

• Experience with LCH, LSEG, Clearing, Margining or Post-Trade platforms

• Experience supporting large-scale multi-year cloud transformation programs

• Other

• Languages

• English: C1 Advanced

• Seniority

• Lead

• London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland