Lead Engineer, Infrastructure Solutions Architecture

Overview

The Infrastructure Solutions Architecture (ISA) group at Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is a cross-disciplined team that takes a full stack view on solution development. This team participates in the definition of high-level functional and non-functional requirements, analyzes technical trade-offs, decomposes major components and subsystems, and helps define the interfaces, collaborations, and dependencies between them.

The ISA Lead Engineer is responsible for accelerating innovation and fostering broader awareness and adoption of disruptive and differentiating technologies.

The ISA team has the expertise to shape ground-breaking business products, material, and processes across the entire portfolio  architects lead technology investigations and recommend solutions based on what they learn and foster understanding of our capabilities. Our insights influence product architecture and definitions. In cooperation with leadership, the ISA team plays a critical role to align teams in a common technical direction s team represents a key element of the ICE technology governance process and embodies our goals for maintaining a high degree of standardization and quality in everything we do.

• Develop and define infrastructure standards along with reusable reference architecture patterns

• Responsible for alignment with perimeter security architecture and design standards with business strategy, service delivery, and client and vendor relationships

• Focus developing resilient infrastructure solutions with a focus on scalability, reliability, availability, performance, and security

• Oversee the upkeep and consistency of our standards as expressed in Global Design Specifications annually

• Partner closely with ISA Innovation and ISA Assurance teams to ensure they are aware of efforts underway to help maintain a feedback loop regarding new business requirements and challenges we have encountered

• Maintain continued knowledge of the business and IT architecture principles to identify and evaluate alternatives solutions

• Help identify gaps in current enterprise guiding principles and policies

• Review plans, processes, and strategies to identify areas for improvement or update

• Create/update Enterprise Architecture Guidance in the form of Design Patterns, Standards, and Implementation Guides

• Partner closely with ICE Enterprise PMO to ensure solutions can be delivered on time and within budget

• Create diagrams and documentation with all components that comprise IT systems including network topology with security measures and vulnerabilities

• Analyze IT specifications to assess security risks

• Design and implement safety measures and data recovery plans

• Work closely with subject matter experts to develop and deliver complete architecture solutions

• Provide governance recommendations for all existing cloud services and methodologies

• Ensure that all logging and monitoring concerns are well understood and implemented according to regulations

• Maintain continued education and certification in the relevant areas of expertise required of this role

• Bachelor’s, master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, applied sciences or a related field

• Extensive background in designing infrastructure architectures for global enterprises

• Previous experience working in Network Architecture or Engineering

• Experience with current generation workload hosting frameworks – RunAI, K8, Red Hat Open Shift, Proxmox

• Previous experience with automation leveraging Ansible, Terraform or equivalent technology

• Previous experience working in a low-latency environment, such as the financial industry. Good knowledge of server operating systems and their TCP/IP stacks, Linux, and Windows

• Demonstrated technical expertise and acumen of 5+ years in specialty fields (Systems – HW/OS, Storage, Security, Networking – L2/L3, Cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP)

• Maintain strong hands-on technical expertise to facilitate proof of concept evaluations and foster collaboration with engineering teams

• Experience in establishing and enforcing standards and practices

• Ability to resolve complex issues in creative, efficient, and effective ways

• Knowledgeable…