Quanteam UK
Solace Messaging Architect – FX & Fixed Income
London
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Solace Messaging Architect – FX & Fixed Income
Who We Are Looking For
We are seeking an experienced VP to join our Engineering Advisory practice, focused on delivering application service engineering for low-latency FX & Fixed Income platforms to clients.
As part of your responsibilities, you will:
Solace Platform Ownership
- Own and administer the enterprise Solace PubSub+ messaging platform supporting real-time trading flows
- Architect, design, and implement Solace messaging patterns for ultra-low-latency trading applications
- Define and enforce Solace best practices, messaging standards, and governance frameworks
- Tune performance of Solace brokers, queues, and topic hierarchies for sub-millisecond latency requirements
- Manage Solace high-availability configurations, disaster recovery, and failover mechanisms
- Plan capacity and scale Solace infrastructure to support peak trading volumes
Trading Middleware Integration
- Design and implement intra- and inter-application messaging architectures using Solace
- Integrate trading applications with Solace message VPNs, bridges, and DMR (Dynamic Message Routing)
- Configure multicast messaging standards within ENET for market data distribution
- Collaborate with development teams to optimize message publishing/subscribing patterns
- Implement Solace guaranteed messaging for critical trade execution flows
Monitoring & Performance
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- Deploy specialist monitoring systems (Corvil, ITRS Geneos) for Solace infrastructure
- Monitor message latency, throughput, and queue depths in real time
- Manage alerts and escalation for messaging infrastructure issues
- Perform analytics and bottleneck identification across trading message flows
Market Connectivity
- Manage market connectivity infrastructure for FX and FI venues
- Document and standardize connectivity patterns through Solace
- Integrate market data feeds and execution venues via Solace messaging
- Own the ENET application on-boarding process, with a focus on Solace integration
- Define messaging connectivity, platform, network, and monitoring requirements
- Establish Solace messaging patterns and standards for new trading applications
Data & Tooling
- Manage data pipelines from Solace message streams to analytics platforms
- Engineer databases for trade data persistence and analysis
- Implement tooling for message flow analysis and trade reconstruction
Your Competencies
Technical
- Python
- Expert-level knowledge of the Solace PubSub+ platform (appliances and software brokers)
- Deep understanding of Solace messaging patterns: direct messaging, guaranteed messaging, request-reply, publish-subscribe
- Hands-on experience configuring Solace message VPNs, queues, topic endpoints, bridges, and DMR
- Proven ability to tune Solace for ultra-low-latency trading environments (microsecond requirements)
- Experience with Solace high-availability configurations, replication, and disaster recovery
- Knowledge of Solace monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting tools (PubSub+ Manager, CLI, SEMP API)
- Understanding of Solace client APIs and integration patterns with trading applications
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Middleware & Messaging
- Strong knowledge of complementary messaging middleware technologies (TIBCO RV, MQ Series)
- Deep understanding of multicast messaging protocols and their implementation on Linux
- Ability to diagnose multicast data loss, network congestion, and messaging performance issues at the OS level
- Familiarity with message serialization formats used in trading (FIX, JSON, Protobuf, Avro)
- Understanding of Global Markets products and Geneos monitoring systems
- Experience analyzing network packet captures (Wireshark, tcpdump) for message flow troubleshooting
- Strong Linux/Unix administration skills, with a focus on network and messaging performance tuning
Behavioural
- Strong communication, team spirit, and ability to collaborate with relevant stakeholders (e.g., Trading, Structuring, Technology, Risk, Finance)
- Strong leadership and drive
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical thinking
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Skills
Solace PubSub+
Messaging Patterns
Low-Latency Trading
Python
High-Availability Configurations
Disaster Recovery
Middleware Technologies
Multicast Messaging
Linux Administration
Network Performance Tuning
Message Serialization Formats
Analytics Platforms
Monitoring Systems
Trade Data Persistence
Collaboration
Problem-Solving
Location