Principal Pre-Trade Solution Architect

The role owns and leads the design, integration and evolution of all pre‑trade trading digital solutions, providing strategic direction across the pre‑tradelandscape. It ensures that market data, market access, analytics and portfolio optimisation capabilities are thoughtfully designed, effectively integrated and well governed, while remaining fully aligned with Woodside’s broader trading ecosystem to enable high‑quality decision‑making and sustainable trading performance.

This position will be based residentially in Singapore.

• Shape and own the pre-trade integrated solution architecture domain as data-centric architecture ecosystem
• Ensure that overarching architectural principles are maintained to guide technical changes towards a data-centric architecture
• Drive compliance with Woodside Trading architecture blueprint and ensure alignment across domains and ecosystems

• Contribute and shape the technical design of technological solutions for trading use cases with the Trading Data Layer Domain Owner
• Partner with Front-office, Middle-office, and Back-office to translate commercial logic into scalable technical solutions that focus on value generation for the business
• Capture Trading-specific knowledge from 3rd party vendors and ensure continuous upskilling and advancement of Woodside digital teams

• Work together closely with the Trading Ecosystem Owner, Post-Trade Domain Owner and Data Domain Owner to seamlessly optimise the (highly connected) trading technology ecosystems and get maximum value for the business of the overall technology landscape

1. Skills and experience

• Strong expertise in modern technology architecture design patterns
• Strong technical literacy APIs, and streaming integration
• Proven expertise integrating trading commercial (off-the-shelf) and bespoke build solutions into a data-centric trading architecture ecosystem
• Strong and modern expertise in building Asset-backed trading capabilities
• Deep knowledge of Pre-trade capabilities including analytics, portfolio optimisation, price curves, market access, systematic trading etc.
• Good understanding of Post-trade capabilities including e.g., valuation, risk, trade capture & lifecycle solutions etc.
• Strong communication skills to bridge gap between Front-, Middle and Back office business requirements and technology
• Pragmatic approach to trade-off and decision facilitation