FDM is a global business and technology consultancy delivering client and industry driven solutions through our 5 core specialist Practices; Software Engineering, Data & Analytics, IT Operations, Change & Transformation, and Risk, Regulation & Compliance.
FDM is seeking a Dev Lead/Architect located in Montreal to support a project in the Capital Markets sector. Involvement in this project is anticipated to last initially 12 months but may be extended.
This role will be hybrid with requirements to be in office 3 days per week.
About the Opportunity
Our client, a leading Canadian bank, is establishing a new Prime Brokerage capability within its Capital Markets business.
This is a greenfield transformation initiative requiring experienced technology professionals to help design, build, integrate, and implement the platforms and processes needed to support the new business.
We are looking for Dev Lead/Architect with strong Capital Markets experience. Previous exposure to Prime Brokerage, Equity Finance, Stock Borrow/Lending, Total Return Swaps, Synthetic Trading, or Corporate Actions would be particularly valuable.
Successful candidates will work closely with Capital Markets technology, product, operations, and business stakeholders to help take the capability from concept and architecture through to implementation.
Responsibilities may include:
- Define target-state architecture for the Prime Brokerage technology ecosystem.
- Design integration between new Prime Brokerage services and existing Capital Markets platforms.
- Define application, API, messaging, and data architecture.
- Establish patterns for scalability, resilience, security, and high availability.
- Make architectural decisions around Java services, caching, event-driven architectures, messaging, and real-time data processing.
- Work closely with engineering teams to translate architecture into implementable designs.
- Identify technical dependencies across trading, operations, risk, finance, reference data, and downstream platforms.
- Establish engineering and architectural standards for the new platform.