Solutions Architect

Job Profile- Solution Architect. Job Location- Mohali Job Brief: We are looking for a System Architect with deep expertise in designing high-performance, scalable, and future-ready platforms . The ideal candidate has extensive hands-on experience building distributed, low-latency systems for financial markets and can balance innovation with reliability. You will define the architectural vision, guide engineering teams, and ensure our trading infrastructure evolves to meet the demands of scale, speed, and global expansion. Role & Responsibilities: Architecture & System Design ● Architect and evolve scalable, fault-tolerant, and high-throughput systems that support real-time market data and order execution. ● Establish and maintain architecture principles , design standards, and best practices tailored to different environments. ● Translate complex business requirements into robust, modular, and maintainable system designs. ● Make key design and technology decisions ensuring performance, scalability, and security . Modernization & Optimization ● Lead refactoring of legacy components to modern microservices or event-driven architectures. ● Continuously improve performance, reduce latency, and enhance system resilience. ● Drive adoption of cloud-native architectures and container orchestration for elastic scalability. Technical Leadership ● Mentor and guide engineering teams on architecture, performance tuning, and distributed system design. ● Conduct architecture and code reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices and consistency across services. ● Foster a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous learning. Engineering Discipline & Reliability ● Implement strong DevOps and observability principles — focusing on automation, monitoring, and fault recovery . ● Ensure compliance with secure coding practices , audit requirements, and regulatory standards. ● Collaborate with QA and DevOps to maintain system stability, scalability, and availability. Quality Assurance: ● Contribute to the establishment and maintenance of quality assurance processes, ensuring that the software meets the defined standards and specifications. Documentation: ● Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation for code, design decisions, and architectural considerations. Requirements: ● 15+ years of backend development experience with strong expertise in distributed systems. ● Proven track record in architecting and building trading systems or financial market platforms (execution, risk, pricing, or data). ● Strong command of modern tool like Kafka , RabbitMQ, PostgreSql, Spark . ● Hands-on experience with microservices , Docker , and Kubernetes . ● Proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS / GCP) and infrastructure as code principles. ● Deep understanding of multi-threading , concurrency , low-latency design , and fault tolerance . ● Exposure to FIX protocol , market data streaming , or order routing systems is preferred. ● Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. ● Growth-oriented mindset — passionate about designing systems that scale and evolve with technology. ● Fluent in English (written and verbal). Company Link- About the Company: Finvasia is a multi-disciplinary, multinational organisation that owns and operates over a dozen brands across financial services, technology, real estate and healthcare verticals. Over the last 13 years of our history, Finvasia has managed funds for some of the notable hedge funds of the Wall street, launched the first and only commission free ecosystem for listed and fee based financial products in India, provided technology to some of the nota- ble listed and unlisted financial services entities across the globe, launched medically proven diabetes reversal program and engaged scientist from various specialised fields to build nano and micro medical devices that can monitor and assist in various body func- tions. In the last 13 years, we have catered to a few million clients in over 180 countries directly or via one of our subsidiaries. Some of the notable brands owned by Finvasia are Fxview, Shoonya, Zulutrade, AAAfx, ACT Trader, CapitalWallet, Gini Health, bodyLoop, StackFlow, Finvasia estates, and portfolios.com Our team comprises over 350 employees that work in our offices across India, UK, Greece, Cyprus, Canada, Mauritius and USA. Our team enjoys a collegiate environment and get to work across a multitude of brands, products, technologies, and industry segments and get an opportunity to get more global exposure while working with teams from different parts of the globe. As a company, Finvasia is an equal-opportunity employer that respects and encourages diversity and inclusion.