IG Group

Technical Architect

IG Group
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1 month ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Define the architecture vision and high-level designs for post-trade regulatory reporting.
  • Design and deliver enterprise-scale cloud data platforms using batch, streaming, event-driven, lakehouse, and cross-cloud integration patterns.
  • Guide infrastructure teams in establishing the runtimes required for data architectures.
  • Drive data quality, profiling, governance, access control, compliance, and fit-for-purpose reporting data.
  • Produce HLDs, reference architectures, ADRs, and other artefacts for formal review and approval.
  • Evaluate architectural options, document trade-offs, and make pragmatic decisions under ambiguity.
  • Collaborate with IT teams and stakeholders to realize integration designs and evolve technology strategy.
  • Provide thought leadership, coaching, mentoring, standards, and knowledge sharing across development communities.

Requirements

  • 12–15 years of experience as a Technical Architect with hands-on ownership of enterprise-scale cloud data platform design from concept through production.
  • Strong cloud architecture expertise in GCP and AWS, with deep practical knowledge of at least one platform.
  • Experience designing and implementing lakehouse architectures using medallion patterns, progressive data quality, immutability, and dimensional modelling.
  • Experience with batch and streaming data architectures, Kafka, event-driven ingestion, messaging systems, and cloud data platforms.
  • Solid understanding of data governance, including IAM/RBAC, PII encryption, data classification, audit logging, and regulatory compliance.
  • Experience designing cloud integration patterns involving REST APIs, managed file transfer, event streaming, AWS-to-GCP integration, and service authentication.
  • Knowledge of dimensional data modelling, canonical data models, and schema registries such as Avro.
  • Experience with Java, event-driven and microservices architectures, data lakes, operational data stores, data warehouses, MongoDB, and Oracle is required or preferred as stated.
  • GCP experience with BigQuery, Cloud Composer/Airflow, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Google Cloud Storage, Dataproc, VPC Service Controls, IAM, and Dataplex is a strong advantage.
  • Experience with Apache Flink or Apache Spark and regulatory reporting solutions involving MiFID, ESMA, GDPR, FCA, or equivalent contexts is preferred.
  • Strong collaboration, communication, facilitation, stakeholder influence, judgement, and consensus-building skills are required.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working model with three days in the office, plus flexible working hours and work-from-home opportunities.
  • Tailored development programs, mentoring, career progression, and technical and leadership training.
  • Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning.
  • Performance-related bonuses.
  • Insurance and medical plans.
  • Committees, sports and social clubs, gym membership contributions, and free lunch or snacks.
  • Extra time off for volunteering, including two days of volunteering leave per year, and matched fundraising contributions.
  • A day off on the employee’s birthday.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkAWSGoogle BigQueryGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaMongoDB

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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