Critical Trading Infrastructure Capability

Business Challenge

The Investment Bank required the modernisation of its SQL Trading Cluster to strengthen the resilience, stability and performance of the infrastructure supporting critical capital markets and trading applications. Existing trading and non-trading workloads shared ageing infrastructure, creating operational risk, performance constraints and limited failover capability within a business-critical environment.

Archer Approach

Led the end-to-end upgrade of the SQL Trading Cluster across Trading and Non-Trading environments, coordinating database engineers, infrastructure specialists, trading SMEs and technology teams throughout planning, implementation and controlled deployment.

Directed environment readiness, architecture refresh, high-availability configuration, disaster recovery validation, testing, governance approvals and production implementation to ensure the upgraded platform met operational, regulatory and performance requirements without disrupting business-critical trading activities.

Organisational Impact
Strengthened the resilience of critical trading infrastructure.

Improved system performance and operational stability across capital markets platforms.
Established clear separation between trading and non-trading environments, reducing operational risk.

Enhanced high-availability and disaster recovery capability.

Delivered a scalable infrastructure platform capable of supporting future growth and increasing trading demand.

Capability Legacy

The programme strengthened the organisation's technology capability by providing a resilient, high-performance trading platform that improved operational confidence, reduced infrastructure risk and established a stronger foundation for future capital markets growth.