Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.
Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 700 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland and beyond.
This is a newly created role, established to give Product Engineering dedicated architectural leadership and to build a genuine technical specialist career pathway alongside Fastmarkets' existing management track.
You will own solution architecture and technical strategy for Product Engineering - providing technical direction across its squads, setting design standards, and ensuring solutions are built to be scalable, resilient, and secure. This includes architectural ownership of Product Engineering's major programmes and projects, where you may be embedded in delivery on a part-time or full-time basis depending on the scale, complexity, and risk of the work. Alongside this, you will hold shared accountability - in partnership with the Head of AI Enablement, Head of Data Platform, and Cloud Architect - for driving AI-enabled product development lifecycle (PDLC) practice across Product Engineering, Data & AI, and Cloud Engineering, fostering a cross-organisation community of best practice while ensuring Product Engineering's own domain-specific AI use cases are addressed.
This is a highly cross-functional role. You will work closely with engineering, data, cloud, and product teams to standardise, govern, and mature how Fastmarkets designs and delivers software - and you will help define what a technical specialist career path looks like at Fastmarkets, acting as a role model for that path yourself.
We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.
If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on.
We're looking for a technical architect who combines strong direction-setting and cross-team leadership with genuine technical credibility, across both traditional solution architecture and AI-enabled delivery. This role is weighted toward architecture, standards, and driving alignment across teams rather than full-time hands-on building - but you should have enough hands-on experience to set credible standards, review architecture critically, and know the difference between what sounds good in a slide and what actually survives production.
If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.
Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:
We are committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process, please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.
We believe in fair pay and benefits that support you both inside and outside of work. Through Fastmarkets Rewards, you'll have access to a range of core benefits and a flexible allowance, giving you the freedom to tailor your package to suit your lifestyle, wellbeing and financial priorities. We know that everyone's needs are different, so we've designed our benefits to support our diverse global team wherever they're based.
Specific benefits may vary by country and role.
You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!
If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.
It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.
Who we are
Fastmarkets is the most trusted cross-commodity price reporting agency (PRA) in the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts and market analyses give our customers a strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Our events provide immersive experiences to network, trade and discuss the critical issues of the day.
Fastmarkets combines the commodity intelligence of these familiar names:
Metal Bulletin • American Metal Market • Scrap Price Bulletin • Industrial Minerals • RISI • FOEX • The Jacobsen • Agricensus • Random Lengths • FastMarkets and more.
What we do
The commodity markets we serve are the beating heart of today’s economy and critical to the transition to a low-carbon economy. That reality guides our purpose: to create transparent commodity markets to help our customers build a more sustainable world. The creation of healthy commodity markets – markets that maintain supply-demand balances and create clear mechanisms for participants and investors – are essential to fuel today’s financial performance and make the key investments to build a more sustainable world.
How we do it
Fastmarkets is an extraordinary place to work. We marry a culture energized by a diversity of intellect, experiences, and perspective with a passion to make our customers successful.
We combine the authority of our expertise with a pragmatic view of how markets work to help our customers see clearly even in volatile and opaque markets.
We respect and trust each other as shown by our Working 3.0 model that allows each of us to bring our best selves to work each day and combine to make a difference for each other and for the world.
