Quant jobs / UBS

Principal Architect – Front Office Trading Technology

Guide architecture decisions for UBS front-office trading systems. The role reviews platform designs against latency, resilience and regulatory requirements using substantial production trading-technology experience.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Review order-management and trading-platform architectures.
Challenge designs using performance and resilience evidence.
Guide modernisation decisions with engineering and business teams.
Maintain architectural decisions and governance documentation.

What they ask for

Required

Trading-system architecture
Low-latency production platforms
Distributed and event-driven systems
Architecture governance
Performance diagnosis
Cross-functional leadership

Preferred

Corvil or comparable network-performance analysis
Practical AI-assisted engineering

Education: No degree requirement stated.
Experience: At least 15 years designing, delivering or supporting capital-markets and trading technology.

How to prepare

Design an order-management platform with explicit failure and latency budgets.
Compare sequencing and messaging choices under burst loads.
Prepare an architecture review supported by capacity and tracing evidence.

What to study

The HFT Quant Developer roadmap sets out the stages for this kind of role, with free resources for each.

Open the roadmap

Apply

Read the full posting on UBS’s site before applying: requirements, location and pay can change after we check them.

View the posting on UBS’s site ↗

SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with UBS and doesn’t handle applications.