Project description

We are looking for a Senior Architect to lead the technical direction of our Trade Surveillance platform. Partnering closely with Enterprise Architects, Compliance, and Quantitative teams, this role will shape and execute the multi-year trade surveillance technology roadmap covering scenario and alert development, platform modernization, and migration from a Q/KDB-based stack to a scalable Python/PySpark cloud-native architecture. The ideal candidate combines deep hands-on engineering credibility with the architectural maturity to influence stakeholders across business, compliance, and technology.

Responsibilities

Architecture Roadmap

Partner with Enterprise Architects to define and evolve the trade surveillance technical roadmap, ensuring alignment with firm-wide architecture standards, data strategy, and regulatory expectations.

Own end-to-end architecture for surveillance scenario development, alert generation, case management integration, and downstream investigator tooling.

Define reference architectures, design patterns,



and engineering guardrails for the surveillance engineering organization.

Scenario Alert Engineering

Lead the design and implementation of trade surveillance scenarios and alerts across asset classes (equities, fixed income, FX, derivatives) covering market abuse typologies such as spoofing, layering, wash trades, front-running, insider trading, and cross-product manipulation.

Drive development of scenarios and analytics in both Q/KDB (current state) and Python/PySpark (target state).

Establish reusable frameworks for scenario authoring, parameter tuning, backtesting, threshold calibration, and false-positive reduction.

Platform Modernization Cloud Migration

Lead migration of the trade surveillance platform to the recent cloud infrastructure (AWS / Azure / GCP), including compute, storage, streaming, and orchestration layers.

Architect and oversee the migration of scenarios, libraries, and frameworks from Q/KDB to

📌 Senior Software Architect (Chennai)
🏢 Luxoft
📍 Chennai