Head of Trade Lifecycle Technology

Head of Trade Lifecycle Technology

Job Description

[Up to c. £750k Comp Package | On-Site Working]

Role Overview

A leading global macro investment firm is creating a senior technology leadership position to oversee the platforms that support trading activity from initial order and trade capture through to positions, P&L, financial records and operational processing. Reporting directly to the CTO, this individual will lead a c. 60-person technology organisation across six engineering teams, establishing clearer ownership across front-office trading systems, investment control, middle-office technology and post-trade operations...

Key Responsibilities

• Set the technology strategy for the firm’s end-to-end trade-management and lifecycle-processing environment
• Own platforms supporting order management, trade capture, booking, positions, P&L, lifecycle events, controls and books and records
• Integrate two closely connected technology functions into a single organisation with consistent priorities, governance and accountability
• Lead six engineering teams through two senior direct reports, providing organisational direction and technical oversight
• Partner with trading, investment control, product control, middle office, operations, risk and finance stakeholders
• Establish clear ownership for position discrepancies, P&L differences, booking issues, control failures and trade-processing exceptions
• Ensure accurate data lineage between source trades, position services, valuation processes, downstream controls and financial records
• Challenge engineering and architecture teams on platform design, service boundaries, integration patterns and data models
• Define the roadmap for a combination of extensively customised vendor platforms and internally developed trading systems
• Improve resilience, observability, control coverage and operational support across business-critical trade flows
• Simplify duplicated processes, unclear system ownership and unnecessary dependencies between technology teams
• Introduce meaningful measures covering platform reliability, reconciliation quality, control effectiveness and delivery performance
• Represent trade-lifecycle technology in senior business, investment and technology forums

What You’ll Bring...

• 12+ years of technology experience within capital markets, including substantial leadership responsibility for trading, trade-processing or front-to-back technology platforms
• Deep understanding of the full trade lifecycle, including capture, booking, enrichment, position keeping, valuation, P&L, lifecycle events, controls, settlements and financial records
• Strong knowledge of how information flows between order-management systems, trading platforms, risk engines, position services, product control, operations and accounting environments
• Experience owning technology supporting complex financial instruments, ideally across rates, FX, commodities, fixed income or other macro products
• Demonstrable understanding of booking models, instrument structures, trade events, cash flows and position construction
• The ability to identify where position, cash, valuation and P&L breaks occur, trace their root causes across platforms and drive permanent remediation
• Strong architectural judgement across distributed systems, event-driven processing, data lineage, integration and high-availability trading platforms
• Experience leading sizeable engineering organisations across multiple teams, disciplines and locations
• Strong stakeholder leadership across front-office, technology, finance, risk, control and operational functions
• Experience modernising or consolidating complex trading platforms without compromising stability, controls or daily business operations
• The technical credibility to challenge senior engineers and architects without needing to remain a hands-on software developer
• [Preferred] Experience with Calypso, Murex or another enterprise cross-asset trading and processing platform
• [Preferred] Experience integrating vendor platforms with proprietary order-management, position-management or control systems
• [Preferred] Previous experience within a hedge fund, asset manager or other buy-side trading organisation

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