Senior Cloud Architect - Capital Markets
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation2 months ago
Charlotte, NC, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Define the target-state architecture and roadmap for middle- and back-office platforms supporting rates and FX and derivatives trading systems.
- Design high-throughput event-driven publisher/subscriber integrations using Amazon MSK, Apache Kafka, Amazon EKS, and AWS Fargate.
- Maintain backward compatibility and protect upstream front-office and downstream financial workflows from disruption.
- Establish reusable architecture standards and reference blueprints aligned with enterprise architecture guardrails.
- Own automated AWS infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and enforce Zero-Trust security and IAM practices.
- Ensure high availability, performance, observability, and self-healing behavior using CloudWatch and scalable cloud-native systems.
- Perform deep-dive code reviews and communicate distributed-systems architecture to executives and engineering teams.
Requirements
- 10+ years of IT architecture experience, including at least 4+ years as a Cloud Architect in capital markets, investment banking, or fintech.
- Production experience architecting, scaling, and managing cloud-native applications on Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, AWS Fargate, or ECS.
- Knowledge of container lifecycle management, service meshes, and autoscaling paradigms such as KEDA based on Kafka lag.
- Strong Java and Python background for enterprise backend systems, Kafka streams, data engineering, pipelines, and service deployment.
- Deep production experience writing modular Terraform configurations for immutable AWS environments.
- Hands-on expertise with Apache Kafka or Amazon MSK, including performance tuning, partition strategies, and consumer-lag mitigation.
- Mastery of distributed-systems integration patterns including event sourcing, CQRS, dead-letter queuing, and idempotency.
- Exceptional stakeholder-management and technical communication skills.
- Preferred certifications include AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate, CKA or CKAD, Databricks Certified Solutions Architect, and Confluent Certified Administrator or Developer.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model allowing work from home and an SMBC office.
- Employees must live within a reasonable commuting distance of their office location.
- Specific hybrid schedules are discussed during the interview process.
- Reasonable accommodations are available during candidacy for applicants with disabilities.
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About Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation provides corporate, investment, and commercial banking services—such as lending, capital markets, global trade finance, treasury/FX, and transaction banking—to corporate, institutional, and consumer clients. Headquartered in Tokyo, it is the core banking subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), one of Japan’s three major banking groups, whose shares trade in Tokyo and as NYSE ADRs (SMFG). SMBC serves clients through a network spanning nearly 40 countries.