Senior Director of Software Engineering

Overview

As Senior Director of Engineering in the CIB Markets Technology team, you will lead desk-supporting trading technology and front-office workflows, shaping the technology roadmap and ensuring production readiness. You’ll mentor a high-performing team, collaborate with Traders, Quants/Strats, and functional leads, and drive end-to-end delivery across the trade lifecycle. Your leadership will enable faster, safer, and more observable production systems that empower traders and drive innovation. This is a strategic role at scale in a global financial services firm.

Responsibilities

• Own the technology strategy for desk workflow and tooling, translating business priorities into roadmaps
• Partner with Traders, Desk Heads, Quants/Strats, and Operations to identify pain points and deliver value
• Represent the desk technology organization in senior forums and secure commitments
• Oversee end-to-end delivery across the SDLC with productive front-office responsiveness
• Establish delivery rhythms and promote a production-first culture with observability and incident controls
• Lead design and delivery of integrated workflows across the trade lifecycle
• Coordinate cross-team delivery for aligned releases and change management
• Set and enforce engineering standards for architecture, secure coding, testing, CI/CD, and incident response
• Lead multi-department strategy for AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation to meet firmwide objectives
• Apply SDLC tooling knowledge to drive cross-domain reuse and measurable capacity unlocks
• Sponsor and resolve complex production incidents and systemic issues

Key requirements

• Deep expertise in software engineering, system design, testing strategy, operability, secure engineering, and performance
• Experience in Commodities Front Office Technology supporting Exotics/Commodities desks
• Significant experience leading engineering teams and delivering end-to-end stack systems in production at scale
• Proven success partnering with Front Office/Trading stakeholders in high-urgency environments
• Strong technical depth in Python (preferred) or ability to lead in a Python-based stack
• Experience leading multi-organization adoption of AI-enabled engineering operating models with governance and measurement frameworks
• Understanding of responsible AI risk, controls, and resiliency/security at scale
• Proven ability to drive outcomes through multi-team dependencies and influence without authority

• leadership and people management
• cross-functional collaboration
• stakeholder management
• Python (preferred)
• front-office UI/tooling (React/TypeScript)
• observability and performance engineering

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