Technical Project Manager High Frequency Trading

Overview

In this role you will drive software-driven projects within the trading tech stack, coordinating Dev, pre-production, and production activities. You’ll manage release scope, risks, and go‑live activities across multiple teams, including data center and network aspects. The role sits in a 24/7, high‑tech trading environment and directly supports London operations. You’ll influence standards, improve processes, and help the firm scale alpha generation with efficient execution. This is a hands‑on, hands‑off leadership role for a technically savvy PM who thrives on problem solving and impact.

Responsibilities

• Manage the scope of software-driven projects across development, pre-production, and production teams
• Coordinate and control release activities across support groups
• Plan and coordinate physical data center work (hardware/network) and application-layer configurations
• Provide services to help product and project teams deploy releases into production
• Manage risks and resolve issues affecting release scope, schedule, and quality
• Lead Go-Live activities including reviews, pre-deployment meetings, and checklists
• Serve as liaison between technology departments, shaping requirements and standards
• Participate in retrospectives and report on inefficiencies, successes, and improvements
• Create and maintain project documentation and plans (MS Project/JIRA/Confluence)
• Gather requirements in meetings and prepare detailed summaries for engineering, operations, and trading teams

Key requirements

• Degree inScientific or Quantitative field (including computer science)
• Experience in financial services
• Proven project management experience
• Knowledge of Unix and Windows OS administration
• Experience with MySQL or similar databases
• Familiarity with networking
• Scripting knowledge (Shell or Python) a plus
• Colo design knowledge a plus

• strong communication
• stakeholder management
• cross-functional collaboration
• Unix
• Microsoft Windows OS
• MySQL

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