Platform Integration Specialist
Project description
We are seeking a highly skilled Platform Integration Specialist to join our Platform Integration Team. The successful candidate will be responsible for implementing and managing complex system integrations across investment banking and global markets technology landscape. This is a critical, senior role requiring deep domain expertise, strong vendor engagement skills, and a hands-on technical approach, with ownership of delivery and coordination across internal teams and external providers. The ideal candidate brings proven experience working with industry-leading platforms across trade execution, trade processing and market data, and is equally comfortable engaging with technology vendors during RFPs working in close collaboration with internal and vendor architecture teams.
Responsibilities
- - design and implement end-to-end system integration across customer global market technology landscape, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance. - Lead global markets technology integration initiatives. - Act as central coordinator across architecture, infrastructure, application teams, and external vendors. - Evaluate and define integration patterns (API, FIX, MQ, file-based) appropriate to each system and use case. - Lead technical evaluation of vendor solutions, including issuing and responding to Requests for Proposal (RFPs). - Create detailed integration documentation, data flow diagrams, and technical specifications. - Engage with external vendors to assess product capabilities, negotiate integration requirements, and manage delivery timelines. - Maintain ongoing vendor relationships and track product roadmaps to anticipate integration impacts.
SKILLS
Must have
- Minimum 10 years of experience in system integration within financial markets (buy-side, sell-side, or vendor). experience in systems integration within: o Financial markets, OR o Vendor solutions used by banks/asset managers.
- Proven experience integrating external platforms into a bank’s ecosystem. Lead and orchestrate integration of new platforms into the bank’s global markets landscape.
- Ability to lead end to end integration of at least one or two systems.
- Demonstrated experience integrating with external platforms (trade execution, RFQ, post trade processing, market data ...).
- Strong experience with integration protocols: FIX, REST/SOAP APIs, MQ messaging (IBM MQ), SFTP.
- Good understanding of cloud and connectivity patterns (Azure/AWS, VPC, private endpoints ...)
- Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language (Python, Java, SQL, or similar).
- Proven record leading RFP processes and vendor technology assessments. Challenge and validate vendor proposed integration patterns.
- Experience with capital markets vendors such as: Bloomberg, Refinitiv, LSEG, 360T, DTCC
- Good understanding of financial products: equities, fixed income, FX, derivatives, and their trade lifecycles.
Nice to have
Desirable (Nice-to-Have) Skills • Murex exposure (not mandatory; configuration experience is optional). • Experience integrating with post trade systems (e.g., Calypso, Murex, others).
