Principal Engineer- Capital Markets The Principal Engineer role will provide engineering and architecture support for complex electronic trading system management activities related to software, hardware, performance, problem determination or resource management requiring communication and coordination with vendors, technicians, clients, and management. Provide technical input to management decision making in the areas of software, hardware, and performance. The Principal Engineer plays a key role in designing, developing, and optimizing sophisticated trading systems. This critical role ensures platforms used for trading financial products, such as Interest Rate Derivatives (IRD) and commodities, FX operate efficiently, securely, and in compliance with industry regulations. The role demands a combination of both deep product knowledge in financial instruments and strong technical expertise in software engineering and system architecture, as well as execution. Ideal candidates will to be familiar with how trading venues, exchanges, and clearing houses operate; and how to build systems that interact seamlessly with them. This includes managing connectivity, knowledge on order-routing protocols and ensuring compliance with regulations like MiFID II, Dodd-Frank, SOX and others. Responsibilities include: Defining networking requirements; performing detailed analysis of various projects and requests; developing designs for projects that have medium to high complexity; formulating procedures; monitoring key performance indicators; and implementing advanced business solutions. This role may also integrate solutions or build via DevOps depending on the maturity of the organization and/or product. Capital markets trading requires systems that are low-latency and highly available to ensure competitive execution and market-making strategies. The Principal Engineer should be experienced with technologies such as multi-threading, and high-performance networking to meet the demands of real-time decision-making and execution. Position Responsibilities: Design and Methodology * Work closely with business units, application teams, infrastructure areas and vendors to identity, review and evaluate the solution requirements. * Investigate and propose strategic fits for virtualization, consolidation and rationalization solution opportunities within the infrastructure or business. Propose changes to the technical architecture and design solutions as applicable. * Evaluate and align strategic fit solutions across infrastructure platforms and solutions specific to system hardware and software technologies. * Understand, participate, review and influence long term capacity planning and technology investments. Technical Consulting * Provide Client consulting and planning guidance as applicable for moderate to large highly complex projects/programs. * Provide consultation and works closely with other functional infrastructure areas/departments on multiple initiatives to meet common organizational / business goals and objectives. * Participate in and provides consulting to project teams on architectural, design development, integration opportunities, planning of highly complex systems and assures it is aligned to our established strategies, guiding principles, rationales and practices. Planning and Organizing * Identify and evaluate projects/programs/initiatives and design processes that enhance and rationalize existing and upcoming solutions. * Map requirements into standard services solution, identity opportunities for integrating to existing or reuse technology and provide cost effective solutions for moderate to large highly complex project/programs/initiatives. * Review, identify and manage requirements for moderate to complex solutions and do a cost value, feasibility and risk analysis. Risk Management * Review, participate, develop and update architectural standards, guiding principles, rationales and strategies. * Evaluate, review and approve highly complex design solutions for business and Infrastructure project or programs or initiatives. Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Protected Veterans/Disabled