Head Platform Engineering Category Technology jobs at Us Bank in United Kingdom, London

Job Description:

London - UK

Job Title: Senior Java Engineer

Corporate Title: Director

The Equities Cash Technology team is a global team with a good presence in every region (AMRS, EMEA and APAC). We aim to maintain a global perspective while recognizing and responding to specific regional requirements that make each market unique.

Role Description:

This job is responsible for functionally leading a team. The team is working on number of algorithmic engines that support benchmark algos, smart order routing and internal crossing, serving the EMEA as well as global electronic business. Apart from a continuous stream of strategy container enhancements and regulatory requirements, the team is also working on number of framework related items. The underlying platform has been built on a Java framework with next generation low latency and high throughput at the heart of the application. There is a high degree of business and quants interaction.

The main responsibilities of this role include:

Delivery of key functional changes to the ETT strategy engines

• Delivery of core framework-level changes
• Interaction with quantitative trading group / quantitative traders to capture core requirements.
• Being involved with all aspects of the development lifecycle (gathering requirements, developing code, writing unit tests, reviewing patches, performing 2nd level support

The following skills are required:

• Excellent communication skills
• Demonstrated experience in developing modern systems using modern software development practices and an automation first mindset across the software development lifecycle, particularly around shift-left testing.
• In depth understanding of core Java API’s (collections, concurrency, NIO )
• Understand and have experience with multithreaded systems, working knowledge of the Java garbage collector, familiar with low latency I/O.
• Demonstrable experience of front office system design and architecture (algo trading plant and topology)
• Business Knowledge – Understanding of equities and/or derivatives markets.
• Understanding of benchmark algo and/or smart routing strategies (VWAP, TWAP, Arrival Price etc.)
• Understanding of and experience with design patterns (Observer, Factory, Singleton )
• Development practices - Should be able to use test focused development and be familiar with UML and OO design. Should have experience with Eclipse or IntelliJ, GIT, continuous build servers and Maven / Gradle.
• Should be able to work with and help more junior members
• Can demonstrate ability to work in a multi-faceted role (development with some testing, support, and analysis).

The ideal candidate will also have:

• Business Knowledge – Understanding of Futures, FX and/or FI.
• Experience working with agile methodologies.
• Knowledge of FIX (heart beating, login, sequence numbers, message types etc.)

Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner

20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum

The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc.

Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services.

Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters

Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution

Job Description:

London - UK

Job Title: Senior Technology Manager

Corporate Title: Director

The Equities Cash Technology team is a global team with a good presence in every region (AMRS, EMEA and APAC). We aim to maintain a global perspective while recognizing and responding to specific regional requirements that make each market unique.

Role Description:

This job is responsible for functionally leading a team. The team is working on number of algorithmic engines that support benchmark algos, smart order routing and internal crossing, serving the EMEA as well as global electronic business. Apart from a continuous stream of strategy container enhancements and regulatory requirements, the team is also working on number of framework related items. The underlying platform has been built on a Java framework with next generation low latency and high throughput at the heart of the application. There is a high degree of business and quants interaction.

The main responsibilities of this role include:

Delivery of key functional changes to the ETT strategy engines

• Delivery of core framework-level changes
• Interaction with quantitative trading group / quantitative traders to capture core requirements.
• Being involved with all aspects of the development lifecycle (gathering requirements, developing code, writing unit tests, reviewing patches, performing 2nd level support

The following skills are required:

• Excellent communication skills
• Demonstrated experience in developing modern systems using modern software development practices and an automation first mindset across the software development lifecycle, particularly around shift-left testing.
• In depth understanding of core Java API’s (collections, concurrency, NIO )
• Understand and have experience with multithreaded systems, working knowledge of the Java garbage collector, familiar with low latency I/O.
• Demonstrable experience of front office system design and architecture (algo trading plant and topology)
• Business Knowledge – Understanding of equities and/or derivatives markets.
• Understanding of benchmark algo and/or smart routing strategies (VWAP, TWAP, Arrival Price etc.)
• Understanding of and experience with design patterns (Observer, Factory, Singleton )
• Development practices - Should be able to use test focused development and be familiar with UML and OO design. Should have experience with Eclipse or IntelliJ, GIT, continuous build servers and Maven / Gradle.
• Should be able to work with and help more junior members
• Can demonstrate ability to work in a multi-faceted role (development with some testing, support, and analysis).

The ideal candidate will also have:

• Business Knowledge – Understanding of Futures, FX and/or FI.
• Experience working with agile methodologies.
• Knowledge of FIX (heart beating, login, sequence numbers, message types etc.)

Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner

20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum

The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc.

Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services.

Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters

Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution

Senior Java Engineer

You will be expected to lead by example working within the team and boosting their ability to deliver business requirements while improving core engineering and reducing technical debt.

This is a hands-on roll involving a large amount of coding and problem solving.

Required

• Java – Extensive experience working with both large enterprise monolithic applications and modern cloud, micro service platforms

• Spring Boot, Spring MVC, JSP, Dropwizard, Maven, Gradle, Tomcat, Jetty, Junit, Mockito

• Database

• Microsoft SQL Server/Service Broker, TSQL, RDS

• Functional and Nonfunctional testing experience - ability to create and maintain complex automated testing suites for modern and legacy application

• DevOps capabilities

• Containers, cloud, automation, security, configuration management, CI/CD

• Continuous Integration – Jenkins (declarative and containerised pipelines), GIT

• Experience working with Agile processes and methodologies

Nice to have

• Payments experience

Responsibilities / Qualities

• Lead the evaluation of ideas, tools, technology, standards and best practice

• Support innovation by acting as a sounding board for ideas and help bring them to life

• Actively engage in tracking and reducing technical debt

• Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate with wider Opayo team

• Strong grasp of industry standards, best practices and design patterns

• Be willing to adapt to significant changes in either technology or environment

• Provide coaching and mentoring to technical staff

Senior Java Developer with Technical Ownership

Partnering with key technical and business stakeholders, the agile developer will help refine the product vision, estimate, design and build a solution before supporting it into production. You will be expected to lead by example working within the team and boosting their ability to deliver business requirements while improving core engineering and reducing technical debt. This is a mixed role which includes technical responsibility for the platform and active development on it.

Responsibilities / Qualities

• Experience working in large organisations with demonstrable skills of cross team collaboration

• Recent experience in product and compliance management

• Java – Extensive experience working with both large enterprise monolithic applications and modern cloud, micro service platforms

• Spring Boot, Spring MVC, JSP, Dropwizard, Maven, Gradle, Tomcat, Jetty, Junit, Mockito

• Microsoft SQL Server/Service Broker, TSQL, RDS

• Functional and Nonfunctional testing experience - ability to create and maintain complex automated testing suites for modern and legacy application

• DevOps capabilities

• Containers, cloud, automation, security, configuration management, CI/CD

• Continuous Integration – Jenkins (declarative and containerised pipelines), GIT

• Experience working with Agile processes and methodologies

• Payments experience

• Lead the evaluation of ideas, tools, technology, standards and best practice

• Support innovation by acting as a sounding board for ideas and help bring them to life

• Actively engage in tracking and reducing technical debt

• Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate with wider Opayo team

• Strong grasp of industry standards, best practices and design patterns

• Be willing to adapt to significant changes in either technology or environment

• Provide coaching and mentoring to technical staff

Global Corporate

the CLO Analystrole is dynamic, fast paced and offers a good mix of analytical and calculation-based activities in addition engaging with our clients, dealingwith investor queries,

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing valueadded partnerships with RelationshipManagement andDeal Administration toassist in client deliverables and improving defining process and techniques toimprove efficiency anddelivery
• Responsible for ongoing transaction deliverables includingWaterfalls, Investor Reports,Hypothetical test trades
• Calculatevarious portfolio statistics,ratios and thresholds for use inhypothetical trading scenariosandperiodic reporting
• Read and interpret trust indentures with regard to reporting requirements and create technical report specifications from indenture language
• Set up payment calculations in a variety of in-house systems
• Receive, map and reconcile periodic collateral data
• Liaise with business partners (Technology,Legal, Compliance, Trustee, RelationshipManagement, Deal Admin and Sales) to ensure highest client service levelsin compliance withUS Bank standards
• ProvideInnovative clientsolutions
• Use SQL andother software to manipulate the considerable amount of collateral-related information maintained in the US Bank database

Experience and Key Skills Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, accounting or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 2-3 years of relevant work experience preferably with direct experience working with CLO’s, alternatively knowledge of syndicated bank loans / fixed income securities / securitization / debt capital markets
• Strong problem-solving skills

• Experience working with Financial Models would be advantageousincluding advancedExcel skills
• Ability to identify and resolve exceptions and to interpret data
• Ability to perform multiple tasks and meet established deadlines in a dynamic working environment with minimal supervision
• Market awareness
• Effective interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• Building andmaintaining partnerships bothinternally and externally / client centric approach
• Documentation review skills
• Strategic thinking
• Complex analytic transactionskills

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The Head of Platform Engineering at Elavon will lead the design, delivery, and evolution of platform capabilities that underpin our payment gateway products, including EPG, CPI, Opayo, and Salucro.

• Platform Strategy & Vision

Define and execute a platform engineering strategy that supports Elavon’s multi-product architecture and aligns with US Bank’s cloud and compliance frameworks.

• Team Leadership

Lead and mentor a distributed platform engineering team, fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and collaboration across London and US-based teams.

• Platform Architecture & Operations

Oversee the design and operation of Elavon’s internal platforms, including AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and developer experience capabilities.

• Developer Enablement

Reduce cognitive load for product teams by delivering reusable, secure, and scalable platform components that accelerate delivery and improve reliability.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partner with product, security, compliance, and infrastructure teams across Elavon and US Bank to ensure platform alignment and integration.

• Reliability & Quality

Embed SRE principles into platform operations, ensuring high availability, robust incident management, and continuous feedback loops with development teams.

• Compliance & Governance

Ensure platform services meet regulatory and security requirements, including those mandated by US Bank and payment industry standards.

• Leadership

Proven ability to lead high-performing engineering teams and influence cross-functional stakeholders.

• Platform Engineering Expertise

Deep experience with cloud-native platforms, infrastructure-as-code, and platform-as-a-product thinking.

• Strategic Thinking

Ability to align platform capabilities with business outcomes and long-term technology roadmaps.

• Operational Excellence

Strong understanding of observability, incident response, and platform reliability engineering.

Clear communicator who can engage technical and non-technical audiences across global teams.

• Collaboration

Experience working across organisational boundaries, including with central cloud, database, and security teams.

• AWS

Deep familiarity with AWS and multi-region setups.

• Containerization & Kubernetes

Experience deploying and managing containerized workloads at scale.

• Payment Gateways

Understanding of payment gateway architecture.

• Developer Experience

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIESCUSTOMER

• Lead and manage the end to end delivery of technology solutions or services for a key business line, portfolio, assigned segment or enterprise area with a clear focus on strategic planning, schedule management, scope, change / issues management, client communication and overall resourcing and financial costs on a longer term basis
• Responsible for project delivery for the set of application in their scope, commissioning projects to be executed by assigned Project Managers
• Act as an integrator of solutions; provide a flexible approach by offering and negotiating options with the clients that assure the appropriate balance between service levels, cost and risk
• Communicate business vision / goal and portfolio priorities to team members (e.g. Application Owners / Development Managers, Business Systems Analysis, Platform / Service and/or Technology Project Managers etc.)
• Develop impact assessments as it relates to LOB landscape changes / revisions / additions and manage the integrated portfolio delivery schedule and periodically perform risk assessments and manage operational processes consistent across the portfolio (e.g. time reporting)
• Monitor and manage Capacity Forecasting process compliance among Technology Project Managers and report on progress, status, and overall health of the portfolio and the individual applications
• Assess change requests and issues across the portfolio and identify key items for reporting
• Manage day to day vendor relationships and monitor progress against established work agreements for own area
• Partner with clients/ businesses in developing business cases, RFI/RFP, contracts, service level agreements, etc. consistent with business objectives and technologystandards/architecture
• Work closely with IT leadership to ensure on-going focus on reusability, scalability, and enterprise-wide solutions, to maximize returns on the suite of products
• Oversee and support the demand management process from intake through final approval and initiation of delivery execution with respective management teams / business partners / stakeholders

SHAREHOLDER

• Lead the development of total cost of ownership estimates for applications / services across the portfolio and monitor and track to established plans in partnership with Finance and Business Management team
• Measure and monitor progress at clearly defined points in the process for all ongoing projects within the portfolio to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and meet or exceed expectations
• Assess work plans and schedule impacts across portfolio and identify key schedule issues for reporting, escalate further as necessary
• Comply with well-defined enterprise technology delivery practices and standards and project management disciplines - including creation of project documentation of system requirements, estimates of scope and cost
• Track major project deliverables; communicate up-dates; support initiatives intended at reducing time-to-market and containing costs
• Ensure operational, reputational, and intellectual risks are understood, and provide advice towards minimizing risk and escalate where appropriate
• Maintain proficient knowledge of the competition, customer / industry trends and technology innovation; identify opportunities for research and suggest solutions as appropriate
• Maintain high level of customer service and ensure commitments are met; recommend appropriate actions to enhance service levels, through effective service level management practices/ agreements
• Keep informed of technology solutions initiatives and IT direction across TDBG in order to provide strong support to the businesses
• Ensure a full understanding of business requirements and apply knowledge to escalate/prioritize delivery of new and existing projects
• Ensure that new capabilities required by the business are supported by appropriate service delivery departments
• Ensure integration between TS LOB team across processes, technology and data for all solutions defined

EMPLOYEE / TEAM

• Prioritize and manage own workload and support workload of team members in order to deliver quality results and meet timelines
• Support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest
• Work closely with other groups, sharing knowledge of client and customer issues, needs and expectations, and contributing to sound decisions
• Establish and maintain open and effective communication with clients, the businesses, and other team members
• Contribute to the ongoing development of the team and business partners by sharing information, knowledge and lessons learned on a regular basis
• Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency of the business unit and/or team
• Participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business units
• Establish effective relationships across multiple business and technology partners, program and project managers

BREADTH & DEPTH

• Role generally supports a significant business area, product group, Enterprise Platform, Service or Capability under a Segment CIO or technology functional area.
• Sets work direction at an operational level, works autonomously in the management of the unit and collaborates with other business or technology leaders to establish and execute on common goals with a medium to longer term business perspective
• Expert knowledge of the business and bank technology standards (e.g., infrastructure, architecture, processes, applications) from a strategic perspective and managing/ directing teams and projects
• Sound knowledge of external competition, emerging, industry and/or market trends in relation to own business
• Integrator role that oversees various technology functions / resources to deliver business technical solutions or shared service
• Directly or indirectly oversees a sizeable and varied team of technology professionals (e.g., up to 50+ consisting of Application Developers, Solutions Designers, Business Systems Analysts, Specialists, and/or Project Managers) in the end to end delivery of complex projects, system enhancements / applications and/or application or service management
• Directs/manages large-scale applications/ projects across multiple product lines/ businesses, involving significant scope and complexity
• Understands strategic direction (including financials) and champions alliances to benefit the Bank and/or department; advocates for operational improvements to enhance the division’s value to the organization
• Role typically reports to an Executive role

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

• Undergraduate degree or Technical Certificate
• Graduate degree, preferred
• 10+ years relevant experience

If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD – and we’re committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.

We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.