Head of Trading Technology, Asset Management (Director, PL)

Key Responsibilities

• Lead development and modernization of order management and trade execution platforms, ensuring scalable, compliant, and cloud-native solutions aligned with business strategy.
• Define and execute technology strategy across the trading domain, driving innovation, platform optimization, and alignment with regulatory and client experience goals.
• Partner closely with business, engineering, and product teams to define trading architecture for an AI-enabled Digital Advice platform, shape solution designs, and deliver outcomes through agile and co-development models.
• Build and lead a high-performing team while managing vendor relationships, strengthening DevOps and production models, and continuously improving engineering processes and collaboration.

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in financial services technology.
• 5+ years of experience in enterprise end to end best-ex, directed and trade-away trading workflows.
• 5+ years of experience with trading order management systems (OMS), such as BlackRock Aladdin, Charles River, or a similar platform.
• Experience with execution management systems (EMS), such as Virtu Valor or similar platforms.
• 5+ years people leadership experience.
• Cloud modernization experience; GCP experience is preferred.
• Strategic experience setting the vision for application support to drive operational efficiency and minimize disruption.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading leaders, with oversight of 20+ people on delivery teams.
• Experience with AI agentic frameworks.
• Experience directing strategic frameworks to operationalize data pipelines and storage systems.
• Experience leading strategic incident response initiatives and guiding governance practices.
• Experience guiding the overall strategy for quality assurance testing standards across the organization.
• Experience formulating requirements management strategy for an organization.
• Experience leading strategic governance for enterprise-wide security management.
• Software design expertise with the ability to influence policies and frameworks that improve efficiency and guide adaptive design.
• Experience influencing software development strategy through policies and frameworks that drive efficiency and reliability.

What’s in it for you

• A competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future: 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan.
• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions.
• Paid parental leave and family building benefits.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.