Director, Trading Technology

This position follows a hybrid work model; the selected candidate is expected to be in-office 50% of business days at either the St. Petersburg, FL or Jersey City, NJ office. This role is not eligible for work visa sponsorship, currently or in the future.

About the role

Serving as a senior technology leader for Raymond James’ retail and institutional trading platforms, the Director will be accountable for the architecture, delivery, and ongoing evolution of the firm’s mission-critical trading microservices platform. This role combines deep technical expertise with strong execution leadership, owning both the definition of target-state architecture and the successful delivery of scalable, resilient, high-performance trading solutions. The Director will lead the transformation of legacy trading systems into a modern, service-based, event-driven ecosystem while ensuring continuity, stability, and compliance across the full trade lifecycle. The ideal candidate is a technically exceptional, hands-on leader with deep trading domain expertise and a proven track record of delivering complex trading platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own the trading microservices platform, including architecture, delivery, and ongoing evolution, ensuring alignment to performance, scalability, resiliency, and regulatory requirements.
• Accountable for delivery of key trading technology solutions, ensuring execution against roadmap commitments with high quality, predictability, and speed.
• Define and execute multi-year technology roadmaps, translating business needs into actionable engineering plans and measurable outcomes.
• Lead the modernization of legacy trading platforms, driving service decomposition, API strategy, and event-driven architecture adoption.
• Provide hands-on solution architecture leadership, guiding design decisions across domain modeling, integration patterns, and distributed system design.
• Ensure systems meet non-functional requirements, including low latency, high throughput, resiliency, observability, and security.
• Lead and mentor senior engineers, architects, and emerging leaders, developing leadership capability and strengthening the organization’s technical bench.
• Establish and reinforce a culture of ownership, accountability, engineering excellence, and delivery discipline across the team.
• Partner closely with business stakeholders, product leaders, and executive leadership to prioritize initiatives, manage risk, and ensure alignment to strategic objectives.
• Oversee cross-functional delivery across engineering, QA, operations/SRE, and external partners to ensure consistent execution and operational excellence.

Requirements

• More than ten (10) years of relevant experience, including leadership of engineering teams delivering complex trading platforms.
• Deep expertise in trading systems and architecture, including order generation, OMS, execution flows, and post-trade processing across asset classes.
• Proven experience owning and delivering microservices-based platforms, including service decomposition, API design, and event-driven architectures.
• Strong background in distributed systems and data architecture, including transactional data stores, data consistency, fault tolerance, and schema evolution.
• Experience designing and delivering high-performance trading systems, including low-latency, high-throughput, and resilient architectures.
• Proven track record of end-to-end delivery ownership, from architecture through execution and production stability.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams in regulated financial services environments.
• Demonstrated ability to operate across strategic planning and hands-on technical leadership, with credibility at both executive and engineering levels.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer and Information Science, Data Science, Information Technology, or equivalent (High School diploma required).
• More than 15 years of general work experience.
• 10 to 15 years of managerial experience.

Pay

Salary range: $130,000.00–$250,000.00. Total compensation includes base salary and may include additional cash or equity components such as discretionary bonuses or commissions.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life, critical illness, and accident insurance.
• Disability benefits.
• Retirement savings plans.
• Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick leave).
• Parental leave.

Eligibility for benefits and specific offerings may vary based on position and employment status. For more details, visit Myrjbenefits.com.

Schedule

• Hybrid work model (50% in-office).
• Travel: less than 25%.