Principal, Platform Architecture

The OCC

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Chicago, IL
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53 days ago
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About The OCC

The OCC (Options Clearing Corporation) is the world''s largest equity derivatives clearing organization, acting as issuer and guarantor for options and futures contracts to promote stability and market integrity. Industry: Financial Clearing & Derivatives

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TL;DR · Principal, Platform Architecture

The Principal, Platform Architecture joins the Platform Architecture team to define the technical direction for core infrastructure, including cloud, networking, compute, storage, and observability tooling. As a senior individual contributor, you will lead architecture design for container orchestration, streaming infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines while managing the transition from legacy to cloud-native environments. You will build and maintain reference architectures for Kubernetes, Kafka, and Flink while establishing standards for AWS infrastructure patterns. Key responsibilities include driving GitOps models, performing proof-of-concept evaluations, and ensuring non-functional requirements like low-latency and high-throughput are met for clearing workloads. You will utilize tools such as Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, and OpenTelemetry to solve complex platform risks and satisfy regulatory resilience principles within a high-performance financial market infrastructure context.

What you'll do

  • Lead architecture design for core platform capabilities including container orchestration, streaming infrastructure, and cloud architecture.
  • Develop and maintain target-state platform architectures with clear transition plans from current legacy states.
  • Establish platform standards and guardrails for Kubernetes, Kafka, Flink, and AWS infrastructure patterns.
  • Architect and guide the migration of workloads to cloud-native patterns on AWS.
  • Define the enterprise GitOps model for infrastructure-as-code, pipeline standards, and configuration management.
  • Lead proof-of-concept efforts to validate platform technologies and architectural decisions before commitment.
  • Establish platform-level observability standards for logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
  • Ensure platform architecture satisfies regulatory obligations under Regulation SCI and CPMI-IOSCO resilience principles.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or systems architecture roles with ownership of enterprise-scale platform decisions.
  • BS degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Deep, hands-on expertise with Kubernetes cluster architecture, workload design, networking, security, and operational patterns at scale.
  • Hands-on experience architecting Apache Kafka deployments including topic design, partitioning strategy, and consumer group patterns.
  • Practical experience with Apache Flink or equivalent stream processing frameworks for job design and deployment on Kubernetes.
  • Strong AWS architecture experience with VPCs, EC2, EKS, MSK, S3, IAM, KMS, and networking/security services.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and implementing GitOps pipelines using tools such as Flux, ArgoCD, Terraform, or Helm.
  • AWS Solutions Architect — Associate or Professional (preferred).

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