Senior Staff Software Engineer

CME GroupBelfast, United Kingdomlast year

In this role the selected candidate will join the CME Market Data Services team in Belfast where they will have an opportunity to innovate and lead the future evolution of our suite of Derived Data products.

With the Google Cloud Platform, DevOps and automation as driving forces to maximise customer value, we are looking for an engineer who is excited by the opportunity to hone these kinds of skills to complement their core Java skills. In this role you can expect to work with technologies such as Google Cloud Platform’s Dataflow, EventArc, Big Query; Argo workflows, Kubernetes, Docker and Jenkins to name but a few.

Internal mobility and flexibility are a key part to our agile approach to technology delivery. The successful candidate will play a key role in driving our success and will find opportunities to work in a variety of projects and technologies beyond their initial areas of subject matter expertise.

What To Expect Working In The Team

Opportunity to lead technical evolution of CME Derived Data products
Ownership of significant and challenging engineering problems
Bespoke training and mentoring opportunities to develop new skills and expertise
Work in a team with a focus on innovation and embracing early adoption of practices and technologies.
Strong identity and accountability for the entire value stream.
A culture of humility, respect and trust where teams are empowered to take risks to innovate, fail fast and learn iteratively.
Flexible home working policy.

Key Responsibilities

Experienced technical leader responsible for building consensus on the design and architecture plans required for complex enterprise solution delivery.
Re-architecting C# .Net applications into cloud native and java based applications.
Plays a lead role in working with product owners, architects, engineering leaders, scrum masters and technical solution engineers to successfully deliver business value.
Designing Real Time Data products using Data Engineering technology at scale and low latencies.
Provide technical direction on the emerging architecture of the product.
Support Architecture Review Processes
Completes research and conducts POCs on new technologies and complex solutions
Works ahead - ensuring the product architecture is responsive to evolving needs.
Comes up with technical road-maps to drive forward application architecture to meet product vision
A team player - Assists the teams as required to achieve delivery milestones
Utilises the expertise of the team to develop architecture through consensus and team approach.
Works with the domain and enterprise architecture teams, to gain an understanding of the evolving enterprise, in order to make efficient decisions on application architecture, and priorities.
Plays a lead role in preliminary story review, providing constructive feedback and input on both work effort estimation as well as architecture/design improvements.

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Is the Senior Staff Software Engineer position at CME Group remote?: Yes. This role was posted on Remote Frontend Jobs, a job board that lists exclusively fully remote positions.
When was this Senior Staff Software Engineer job posted?: This listing was posted on August 14, 2025 and is still open for applications.
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