Lead Java Developer - Market Data

Talan is an international group that supports its clients in their end-to-end Data & AI transformation by combining management consulting with technological expertise.

With over 6,000 employees across five continents, we accelerate our clients' transformations through long-term partnerships, creating measurable and sustainable impact. 

Our value proposition is built on a structured innovation ecosystem: 2,500 Data & AI experts, proprietary solutions built on advanced models, and an applied research, experimental development, and innovation laboratory.

In Americas, our multidisciplinary teams bring over 30 years of experience helping business leaders across key industries achieve measurable performance and strong ROI, designing, building, and scaling solutions that enable companies to grow more efficiently.

Location: NYC (Hybrid – at least 3 days onsite/week). 

Visa Sponsorship: Talan does not sponsor U.S. work permits or employment visas.

We are seeking a VP-level Senior Java Developer / Technical Lead to join a Market Data and Trading Technology team within a leading financial institution. This hands-on role combines Java development, technical leadership, and architecture, working closely with Trading, Quantitative, Risk, and Technology teams to deliver scalable market data and trading solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop enterprise-grade, server-side Java applications supporting market data and trading platforms.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance across architecture, solution design, development, and implementation.
• Mentor developers through code reviews, design discussions, and engineering best practices.
• Partner with traders, quantitative analysts, product teams, and other technology stakeholders.
• Develop system architecture, technical designs, and implementation concepts.
• Provide development estimates and support delivery planning.
• Drive software engineering standards across the SDLC, including testing, release readiness, production stability, and operational resilience.
• Maintain high code quality through automated testing, code coverage, static/dynamic analysis, security scans, and CI/CD controls.
• Participate across the full software delivery lifecycle, from requirements and architecture through deployment and production support.
• Support and continuously improve highly available, business-critical trading applications.

Required Skills

• 10–15 years of software development experience in Core Java skills, including multi-threading, concurrency, object-oriented design patterns, and asynchronous/event-driven programming
• Designed, built, and maintained high-performance, real-time data pipelines and pricing engines for fixed-income electronic trading
• Strong experience with Spring Boot and enterprise application development.
• Experience with Apache Flink for batch and stream processing.
• Experience building and integrating APIs, including REST, GraphQL, and RPC.
• Strong experience with messaging and streaming platforms, including Apache Kafka, JMS/ActiveMQ, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience building, deploying, and maintaining containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, or similar technologies.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud-native services and architectures, including ECS, EKS, S3, EC2, and Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Strong database and data architecture experience, including PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, and/or Sybase.
• Experience with Apache Camel, enterprise authentication frameworks, application integration, and enterprise application design.
• Experience with enterprise monitoring, application state management, production observability, and production support.
• Experience integrating applications with Bloomberg and/or Murex.
• Experience with Ansible and related deployment/automation technologies.
• Proven experience leading technical delivery, mentoring developers, and communicating effectively with business and technology stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Quantitative Finance, or a related field.

Company’s Benefits

At Talan, we invest in our employees' well-being and empower them with benefits, including:

• 💵 Salary between USD $155,000 - US $185,000
• 💸401(k) retirement plan with company matching
• 🌴15 days of paid vacation per year at hire and up to 27 according to seniority (annual untaken vacation days are cashed out)
• 📴8 paid holidays + 5 sick days + 2 personal days per year
• ❤️‍🩹Company health, dental, and vision insurance plans + FSA
• 🦺Voluntary STD and LTD
• 🚍 Commuter/transit benefits

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.