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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or 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) nice to have.
• 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:

CCI offers competitive benefits and programs to support our employees, their families and local communities. These include:

• 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 as a part of this program employees are allocated 2 days annually to volunteer at the 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

Visit https://www.cci.com/careers/life-at-cci/# to learn more!