Job responsibilities
- Leads multiple technology and process implementations across departments to achieve firmwide technology objectives
- Directly manages multiple areas with strategic transactional focus
- Provides leadership and high-level direction to teams while frequently overseeing employee populations across multiple platforms, divisions, and lines of business
- Acts as the primary interface with senior leaders, stakeholders, and executives, driving consensus across competing objectives
- Manages multiple stakeholders, complex projects, and large cross-product collaborations
- Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams
- Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
- Collaborate closely with Equity Derivatives Product and Quant Research team to manage Data Technology book of work and take full accountability of project delivery
- Hire and retain talent, mentor technical leads/engineers and promote a culture of experimentation and strong delivery ethic.
- Lead architecture and design conversations with technical leads across multiple parts of the wider Equities Technology organization.
- Work with Production support and DevOps teams to establish and monitor SLAs, refine and execute resiliency and recovery plans
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience developing or leading large or cross-functional teams of technologists
- Demonstrated prior experience influencing across highly matrixed, complex organizations and delivering value at scale
- Experience leading complex projects supporting system design, testing, and operational stability
- Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
- Extensive practical cloud native experience
- Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
- Hands-on experience working as a developer on full stack ticker plant implementations in KDB+/q
- Experience leading large globally distributed teams (25+ individuals) of engineers, technical leads and managers
- Solid grounding in architecting and designing complex data applications involving both streaming and batch data pipelines
- Strong domain knowledge in Equities Trading – market microstructure, pre-trade analytics, trading cost analysis
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Knowledge and experience working in Equity Derivatives Trading / Market data domains
- Cloud computing for Data analytics – data lakes/lakehouse, distributed query engines and warehouses
- Experience with implementation of data management solutions covering data quality, lineage and observability.
- Automation of software delivery – unit/integration testing, Continuous Integration & Deployment, pipeline as code
- Knowledge and experience of conventional and ML techniques for time series analytics, anomaly detection and NLP
- Current or prior experience working as data engineer or data scientist leveraging python language & tools – pandas/polars, ray, dask, spark