Lead ETRM Solutions Architect

Castleton Commodities International (CCI) is hiring a Lead ETRM Solutions Architect to expand our Commodities Trading Technology team. This role sits at the center of our end‑to‑end trading lifecycle and is responsible for defining, architecting, and evolving the applications and integrations that support front‑to‑back commodities trading, from exchange connectivity and trade capture through Confirmations, Scheduling, P&L, Risk, and Settlements.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the architecture for applications and services across the end‑to‑end commodities trade lifecycle.
• Lead the design of integrations between ETRM platforms and surrounding systems, establishing scalable patterns and standards utilizing technologies such as Java, messaging frameworks, and enterprise data platforms.
• Architect robust data flows and integration frameworks, including mapping, transformations, validations, and exception handling, ensuring data accuracy, lineage, and control.
• Partner with Trading, Risk, Scheduling, Settlements, and Accounting stakeholders to translate business strategy and requirements into scalable, future‑state technical architectures and roadmaps.
• Provide architectural oversight for production platforms, guiding incident response, root cause analysis, and the implementation of long‑term, systemic solutions.
• Establish and drive best practices for operational resiliency, including monitoring, alerting, automated controls, reconciliation frameworks, and reprocessing capabilities.
• Govern architecture decisions with a focus on performance, scalability, maintainability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Lead design reviews and provide technical direction to engineering teams, promoting strong engineering standards, reusable patterns, and consistent integration approaches.
• Drive adoption of modern SDLC and platform engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, environment strategy, and release governance.
• Oversee and coordinate delivery across global and offshore development teams, ensuring alignment to architecture standards and high‑quality execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience delivering ETRM solutions and architecture within a commodity trading environment.
• Proven experience leading architecture for complex, front‑to‑back trading ecosystems, including integration across multiple platforms and business domains.
• Strong experience working with US‑based leadership and global, distributed engineering teams, including offshore delivery models.
• Demonstrated ability to engage senior business stakeholders and translate strategic objectives into technical architecture and execution roadmaps.
• Experience with full‑scale ETRM platforms. Triple Point (TPT) CommodityXL (CXL) is a plus.
• Experience integrating with commodity exchanges (ICE, CME, NYMEX).
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure, including architecture patterns and migration strategies.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast‑paced, dynamic, and high‑intensity environment, with strong ownership and responsiveness.

Technical Expertise

• Architecture and design of distributed systems and integration frameworks
• Event‑driven and messaging architectures (Kafka, IBM MQ, TIBCO, JMS)
• Java and enterprise application frameworks (J2EE, Spring)
• Data platforms and databases (Oracle, AWS Redshift, PL/SQL)
• API design and integration (RESTful services)
• Cloud architecture (AWS, Azure)
• Modern front‑end frameworks (Angular or React) – Awareness Level
• Scripting and automation (Windows, Linux, Python)

Employee Programs & Benefits

• Competitive comprehensive medical, dental, retirement, and life insurance benefits
• Employee assistance & wellness programs
• Parental and family leave policies
• CCI in the Community: each office has a Charity Committee and employees are allocated 2 days annually to volunteer at selected charities
• Charitable contribution match program
• Tuition assistance & reimbursement
• Quarterly Innovation & Collaboration Awards
• Employee discount program, including access to fitness facilities
• Competitive paid time off
• Continued learning opportunities

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