Senior Java Architect- Capital Markets

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future digitally enabled state both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods fusing strategy consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next our 20000 people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology data sciences consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Overview

Role Overview

The Java Lead will be part of the Capital Markets Technology Middle Office organization responsible for designing delivering and supporting missioncritical platforms that underpin trade processing risk P&L and posttrade workflows.

This role requires a strong hands-on technical leader who can operate within a highly regulated large-scale banking environment partner closely with business stakeholders and lead teams to deliver stable and scalable solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design development and enhancement of Java-based middle office platforms supporting Capital Markets.
• Partner with Front Office Middle Office Operations Risk Finance and Compliance teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Own system architecture technical design and code quality across the application stack.
• Drive technology standards best practices and SDLC adherence aligned with enterprise governance.
• Lead code reviews mentor developers and provide technical guidance to onshore/offshore teams.
• Ensure system resilience performance tuning and production stability in a 24x5/24x7 environment.
• Support regulatory initiatives audit findings and risk remediation activities.
• Collaborate with DevOps QA and Infrastructure teams for CI/CD releases and environment management.
• Participate in incident management root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Core Java (Java 8) in enterprise environments.
• Extensive experience with Spring / Spring Boot REST APIs and Microservices architecture.
• Strong understanding of multithreading concurrency memory management and JVM tuning .
• Experience with relational databases (Oracle PostgreSQL) and strong SQL skills.
• Hands-on experience with messaging and event-driven systems (Kafka MQ JMS).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines Git Maven/Gradle.
• Experience working in Linux/Unix environments .
• Exposure to cloud-native or hybrid architectures (AWS/Azure) is preferred.

Middle Office & Capital Markets Experience (Mandatory)

• Proven experience working in Middle Office Technology within Investment Banking or Capital Markets .
• Strong understanding of:
• Trade lifecycle and posttrade processing
• Trade enrichment confirmations settlements and reconciliations
• Risk and P&L reporting
• Exposure to one or more asset classes:
• Equities Fixed Income FX Derivatives
• Experience working with risk regulatory reporting and compliance-driven systems is highly valued.

Leadership & Client-Facing Skills

• Demonstrated experience leading development teams in a large banking environment .
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage business partners and senior technology stakeholders .
• Comfortable operating within structured processes enterprise controls and regulatory standards.
• Strong problem-solving ownership mindset and attention to detail.

Additional Information

Pay Range: $180000 - $220000

Benefits of Working Here:

• Generous paid vacation and 15 paid holidays

• Maternity and paternity leave (birth or adoption)

• Gym travel retail and phone service discounts

• Tuition reimbursement

• Corporate gift matching program

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race color national origin ethnicity gender protected veteran status disability sexual orientation gender identity or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability you may contact us at

Required Experience:

Senior IC