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.

You will operate across a distributed application landscape and partner closely with Trading, Risk, Operations, and Technology leadership to deliver scalable, resilient, and well-governed solutions. The ideal candidate is a hands-on architect who can define target state architecture, guide engineering teams, and drive best practices across system design, integration patterns, and platform strategy.

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.