Success Stories

Equipping Engineers with Capital Markets & Microservices Expertise

We designed and delivered a custom training programme focused on capital markets fundamentals and microservices development for a technology consulting company and their project partner, a major global stock exchange.


Client

Global tech firm

Industry

Technology & Telecoms

Specialism

Software Engineering

The challenge

Our client is a global technology consulting firm that partners with financial institutions, including global stock exchange groups, to deliver cutting-edge solutions. They needed to prepare its teams of experienced Java developers for deployment onto technical projects with a new partner, a stock exchange group.

While these engineers had strong Java development expertise, previous engagements highlighted key challenges:

• Engineers needed a stronger understanding of the financial markets domain and banking infrastructure to align with their partner’s business needs.

• They required specialist knowledge of microservices architecture to integrate seamlessly into their partner’s technology ecosystem.

We developed a targeted, hands-on training programme designed to align our client’s engineers with their partner’s technology environment and bridge the knowledge gap.

The training focused on two key areas:

1. Capital Markets & Financial Infrastructure Training

• Understanding global financial markets: key participants, instruments, and trading mechanisms.

• How exchanges, clearing houses, and data platforms operate.

• Banking & trading technology stack: systems used for high-frequency trading, risk management, and compliance.

2. Microservices Development for Financial Markets

• Designing scalable microservices: best practices for high-performance, fault-tolerant systems.

• Event-driven architectures: using Kafka, message queues, and streaming data in capital markets applications.

• Deployment & integration: implementing microservices within their partner’s cloud-based infrastructure.

By incorporating real-world financial services use cases, the training ensured that our client’s engineers not only understood how to build microservices but also why they are critical for capital markets applications.

The programme was delivered through a combination of structured learning and hands-on practice, incorporating:

• Instructor-led workshops: covering both capital markets knowledge and microservices architecture.

Hands-on coding labs: engineers built, tested, and deployed capital markets-focused microservices.

Case studies and real-world scenarios: applying microservices principles to client-specific challenges.

Team-based problem-solving: engineers worked in agile sprints, mirroring project deployment environments.

Results

The training program enabled our client’s talented engineers to deploy more effectively onto collaborative projects, with key benefits including:

Stronger capital markets knowledge

Engineers gained a clear understanding of financial services.

Enhanced technical alignment

Teams developed microservices solutions tailored to their partner’s infrastructure.

Faster onboarding & increased productivity

Engineers integrated into partner projects more quickly and effectively.

Successful collaboration

Engineers could engage with stakeholders more effectively, uniting technology and business interests.

Feedback

By providing capital markets and microservices training, we helped our client’s engineering teams deploy successfully onto partner projects, reduced onboarding time, and ensured teams were technically and strategically aligned with their partner’s requirements. This programme highlights the importance of combining financial services expertise with cutting-edge software engineering skills to drive success in the global financial sector.