Enterprise Data - Cloud Solutions Architect, Hong Kong

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Hong Kong

Posted Feb 14, 2020 - Requisition No. 81326

Bloomberg's Enterprise Data department develops data offerings that are considered best in class by the capital markets community. Across real time market data, reference data, historical pricing data, and unique analytics we offer the most comprehensive and highest quality content in the industry; distribution platforms that are flexible, reliable, fast, and easy to onboard; as well as easy to use data that is ready for analysis.

Our mission critical datasets serve as the primary source of information across the front, middle, and back office at the most respected capital markets firms across the globe.

What's the Role?

Capital markets firms are aggressively moving workloads to the cloud. Driven by cost savings, opportunities to scale, or innovative data strategies utilising cloud has become a critical aspect of our customers’ technology strategies. Bloomberg wants to be the leader in cloud ready data.

The Cloud Solutions Architect will play a critical role in helping customers and Bloomberg get to a successful conclusion. As a hands on liaison between Bloomberg product development teams and our customer technology teams, you will provide experienced technical design, cloud thought leadership, and Bloomberg recommended best practices as customers develop solutions on the cloud.

The ideal candidate will be a customer focused technologist that seeks opportunities to get their hands dirty while confidently working with clients to design and build solutions that will best leverage Bloomberg content and technology with applications running on the cloud.

We'll trust you to:

  • Lead deep technical discussions with customers, vendor partners, and Bloomberg colleagues from Product, Sales, Engineering, and Client Services
  • Serve as technical experts in cloud technologies for capital markets use cases
  • Engage with customers as part of their solution creation team
  • Confidently make recommendations to customers and partners
  • Develop collateral including tutorials, sample code, reference implementations, and presentations that will be used by technology practitioners as well as executive decision makers
  • Provide feedback to Product and Engineering teams to help shape product strategy and execution roadmap
  • Balance hands on work with a desire to keep up with trends

You’ll need to have:

  • Experience with hands-on software development/systems architecture of enterprise applications used at capital market firms
  • Applications should be data intensive and may span front/middle/or back office
  • Understanding of capital markets, banking, asset management, and/or the trade lifecycle
  • Advanced knowledge of AWS, GCP, and/or Azure
  • Experience creating or migrating applications to the public cloud
  • Appreciation for DevOps, systems administration, system monitoring, and requirements of mission critical solutions
  • Proficiency with creating technical based documentation and presentations (white-board, small team, broad audience).
  • Entrepreneurial mindset and comfortable to work in a non-hierarchical, large global organization where interaction with senior management is required
  • Passion for consistent learning
  • Ability to travel

We’d love to see:

  • Professional level certifications from AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Master's degree in Computer Science or related engineering field

If this sounds like you:

Apply if you think we're a good match. We'll get in touch to let you know what the next steps are, but in the meantime feel free to have a look at this: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/solution/data-and-content

Bloomberg is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status

As Bloomberg is a disability inclusive employer, please let us know if you require any adjustments to be made for the recruitment process by emailing access2@bloomberg.net.

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