Architect & Senior Developer

ADM unlocks the power of nature to enrich the quality of life. We’re a premier global human and animal nutrition company, delivering solutions today with an eye to the future. We’re blazing new trails in health and well-being as our scientists develop groundbreaking products to support healthier living. We’re a cutting-edge innovator leading the way to a new future of plant-based consumer and industrial solutions to replace petroleum-based products. We’re an unmatched agricultural supply chain manager and processor, providing food security by connecting local needs with global capabilities. And we’re a leader in sustainability, scaling across entire value chains to help decarbonize our industry and safeguard our planet. From the seed of the idea to the outcome of the solution, we give customers an edge in solving the nutritional and sustainability challenges of today and tomorrow. Learn more at www.adm.com

The Role

An opportunity has arisen for an Architect & Senior Developer in the IT Department in the City of London to design and deliver high-quality software solutions across the firm’s trading, operational and regulatory landscape, with a focus on enhancing in-house systems and integrating front, middle and back office platforms. The role includes responsibility for defining and evolving solution architecture, ensuring scalability, performance and alignment with architectural principles and best practices. You will collaborate closely with product owners, stakeholders and developers to translate requirements into secure, maintainable code and ensure robust, well-documented releases.

Your Responsibilities

Main Responsibilities: (8-10 key responsibilities)

• Oversee the firm's architecture across trading, clearing, and post-trade systems and the integrations with CCPs, exchanges, data and platform vendors, as well as customers
• Direct the modernisation of integration patterns and frameworks, reinforcing strong security principles and practices
• Steer the data architecture strategy, supporting business objectives and ensuring data quality, ownership, security and accessibility.
• Chair architecture governance forums, encouraging participation and debate while driving timely, effective architectural decisions.
• Produce clear architecture documentation, architectural decision records, target-state blueprints, and other artefacts for review and audit
• Design resilient systems meeting the firm's RTO/RPO requirements and FCA operational resilience obligations
• Meet regulatory obligations by design, including FCA/ESMA EMIR & MiFID II requirements, DORA as well as other relevant, impactful global obligations
• Contribute to the firm’s change management and incident management frameworks.
• Mentor and upskill engineering teams on architecture principles, cloud-native patterns, & best practices
• Drive adoption of DevSecOps practices and infrastructure-as-code across the technology teams
• Support defining and governing the firm’s use of AI, ensuring solutions are secure, explainable, and compliant with regulatory expectations, data protection requirements, and internal risk guidance.

Your Profile

The successful candidate will possess the following:

• Deep domain knowledge of financial markets technology within an FCM, clearing broker, investment bank, exchange, or vendor
• Proven experience designing systems for listed derivatives, securities, and/or FX processing
• Thorough understanding of order processing, execution, risk management, margining, collateral, valuation and give-up processing
• Strong knowledge of FIX protocol, along with CCP or vendor connectivity (e.g. ICE Clearing, Eurex, LME, CME etc)
• Extensive experience with event-driven architectures, message brokers (Kafka, IBM MQ), and real-time data pipelines
• Knowledge of UK/EU/US regulatory frameworks: EMIR, MiFID II, CASS, MAR, DORA, CFTC
• Proficiency in microservices architectures, as well as containerisation
• Cloud architecture expertise (preferably Azure), with experience migrating or running regulated financial workloads in cloud environments
• Expertise in .Net / C# / SQL Server; React.js and Python desirable
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting to both C-suite and technical stakeholders
• University degree (ideally in Computer Science or related field)
• 10+ years of software engineering or infrastructure experience, with at least 3 years in a senior architecture role

Your Future Perspective

• Challenging tasks, short decision-making processes and a high level of personal responsibility in a modern work environment with flexible work time models.
• Room for innovative thinking and growth with the possibility to manage your own career path.
• A company culture which promotes continuous learning and diversity. To assist with this all colleagues are able to join our Women’s and Multicultural Employee Resource Groups, and the ADM Pride Employee Network and the Young Professionals Network. As well as the company wide mentorship programme as mentor or mentee.
• Excellent career opportunities in a world leading nutrition company.
• An attractive remuneration including a variety of social benefits like subsidised health & fitness offers.
• ADM is a company where managers and colleagues are encouraged to discuss and enable the flexibility that is needed to meet the demands of work and life.
• Additional benefits and support for maternity and paternity leave.
• ADM are an advocate of having a workforce who are aware of their mental health. In addition to our network of Mental Health First Aiders, all new starters to the business will be enrolled in ‘Mental Health Aware’ training within three months of joining the business.

Learn more about ADM at www.adm.com.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and value diversity at our company to encourage a diverse range of perspectives, skills, experience and knowledge within our business. To assist with this the Company has established a UK Diversity forum to support participation of underrepresented groups in the workplace. If you feel this job is for you, unlock your potential and apply now online informing us about your earliest possible entry date and salary expectation. By applying for this position, you agree to ADM’s privacy notice.

#IncludingYou

Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are cornerstones of ADM’s efforts to continue innovating, driving growth, and delivering outstanding performance. We are committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce and create welcoming, truly inclusive work environments — environments that enable every ADM colleague to feel comfortable on the job, make meaningful contributions to our success, and grow their career. We respect and value the unique backgrounds and experiences that each person can bring to ADM because we know that diversity of perspectives makes us better, together.

About ADM

At ADM, we unlock the power of nature to provide access to nutrition worldwide. With industry-advancing innovations, a complete portfolio of ingredients and solutions to meet any taste, and a commitment to sustainability, we give customers an edge in solving the nutritional challenges of today and tomorrow. We’re a global leader in human and animal nutrition and the world’s premier agricultural origination and processing company. Our breadth, depth, insights, facilities and logistical expertise give us unparalleled capabilities to meet needs for food, beverages, health and wellness, and more. From the seed of the idea to the outcome of the solution, we enrich the quality of life the world over. Learn more at www.adm.com.

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