Principal Solutions Architect, Global Financial Services, Capital Markets, AWS Financial Services, Industry Specialists for Capital Markets

AWS is seeking an experienced Principal Solutions Architect to join the Worldwide Financial Services Industry (FSI) Business Unit as a Capital Markets Industry Specialist with a deep focus on low-latency trading infrastructure and market data technology. This is an ideal role for someone who has operated or built ultra-low-latency systems for electronic trading order management execution management or market data distribution and who is ready to bring that expertise to some of the worlds most sophisticated financial institutions as they migrate to AWS.

In this role you will serve as a core technical leader on the Capital Markets Industry Specialist team working directly with exchanges market data providers broker-dealers trading platforms (OMS/EMS) and other market structure participants to architect and accelerate their migration to AWS. You will engage at the intersection of deep technical expertise and business strategy helping customers understand how AWS can meet or exceed the performance reliability and latency requirements of their most demanding workloads whether those workloads live on a co-location floor inside a broker-dealers proprietary trading infrastructure or within a market data distribution network serving thousands of downstream consumers.


Key job responsibilities
Design and architect AWS solutions with a specific focus on ultra-low-latency trading infrastructure market data distribution and capital markets technology collaborating with AWS Business Development Partner and account teams to help the worlds leading exchanges market data providers broker-dealers and trading platforms migrate to AWS.
Serve as the primary technical subject matter expert for low-latency and high-frequency trading workloads on AWS including co-location strategies kernel bypass networking (DPDK RDMA SR-IOV) hardware timestamping and deterministic compute environments relevant to both exchange-operated and broker-dealer-operated infrastructure.
Architect solutions for market data consumption and distribution at scale including tickerplant design feed handler optimization multicast-to-unicast translation and low-latency pub/sub messaging on AWS supporting both sell-side distribution architectures and buy-side consumption patterns.
Engage directly with senior technical and business leaders at exchanges market data providers broker-dealers (including bulge bracket and regional firms operating proprietary trading desks DMA platforms and smart order routing infrastructure) and trading platform vendors (OMS/EMS providers) to understand their migration challenges and develop compelling AWS-based solutions.
Develop and demonstrate technical feasibility through proof-of-concepts prototypes and reference architectures tailored to low-latency capital markets workloads including AWS Outposts AWS Local Zones AWS Wavelength and Direct Connect configurations for co-location and broker-dealer data center environments.
Help broker-dealers evaluate and migrate their most latency-sensitive workloads to AWS including smart order routing (SOR) algorithmic trading engines pre-trade risk systems and market access gateways while addressing regulatory and compliance requirements specific to the sell-side.
Serve as a thought leader and evangelist for AWS in the capital markets technology space contributing to AWS blogs whitepapers reference architectures and speaking at industry events such AWS re:Invent.
Capture and share best practices and insights internally and with partners and customers building a repeatable playbook for low-latency workload migration to AWS across exchanges broker-dealers and market data providers.
Identify customer requirements and provide structured feedback into AWS service teams to influence the roadmap for networking compute and storage services relevant to capital markets including the specific needs of broker-dealer trading infrastructure.
Build trusted advisor relationships with senior executive stakeholders as well as technology experts software developers quant developers and infrastructure architects across the capital markets ecosystem including CTOs and heads of electronic trading at broker-dealers.
Think strategically about the evolution of market structure technology including the migration of on-premises co-location environments to AWS the modernization of legacy broker-dealer trading infrastructure and the emergence of new asset classes and trading venues.

- 10 years of Information Technology (IT) experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science engineering mathematics or equivalent
- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level including training workshops publications

- Demonstrated experience building or operating low-latency technology for one or more of the following: order management systems (OMS) execution management systems (EMS) exchange matching engines broker-dealer smart order routing or algorithmic trading platforms market data feed handlers or tickerplants or high-frequency trading infrastructure.
- Deep understanding of the capital markets technology stack including FIX protocol FAST/SBE encoding multicast market data feeds co-location environments and network optimization techniques for latency reduction with familiarity with how broker-dealers consume and redistribute market data.
- Strong understanding of on-premises infrastructure for trading environments including FPGA-based systems kernel bypass networking and bare-metal compute configurations as deployed by exchanges and broker-dealers.
- Hands-on experience with AWS services relevant to low-latency workloads including EC2 (placement groups enhanced networking bare metal instances) AWS Direct Connect AWS Local Zones AWS Outposts and Amazon EFA (Elastic Fabric Adapter).
- Experience migrating on-premises trading or market data infrastructure to AWS including hybrid connectivity design and latency benchmarking with specific experience in broker-dealer or exchange environments preferred.
- Familiarity with AWS networking services and patterns for market data distribution including multicast alternatives low-latency messaging architectures and time synchronization (PTP/PPS) on AWS.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at NY New York - 201000.00 - 272000.00 USD annually