Software Engineering Manager

Company: CipherTek Recruitment
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Location: London
Job Description:

We’re hiring a senior technology leader (Director) to own a global Market Data platform powering front-office trading across multiple asset classes.

This is a hands-on engineering leadership role, combining team management and platform strategy with software development and architectural ownership. You’ll need the technical depth to contribute to code, make architectural decisions and lead a team of developers.

What you’ll be doing

  • Own the strategy, architecture and delivery of a global real-time market data platform
  • Remain hands-on with software development and technical problem-solving
  • Lead and develop a strong engineering team, setting standards for code quality and delivery
  • Partner directly with trading desks and quant teams to translate business needs into technical solutions
  • Drive platform evolution, including cloud/hybrid transformation
  • Manage key vendor relationships, including Bloomberg, LSEG and ICE
  • Ensure performance, resilience and scalability across a global environment

What we’re looking for

  • A strong software engineering and development background, with proven experience building and architeting business-critical systems
  • Strong hands-on coding skills, ideally in C# and/or Python, and the ability to contribute technically alongside the team
  • Experience leading developers while retaining deep technical involvementExperience in front-office trading technology or closely related areas, working directly with the business
  • A strong understanding of real-time data, messaging and distributed systems
  • The ability to engage credibly with traders, quants and senior stakeholders

Market data expertise is highly desirable, but it isn’t essential to be a specialist in every platform or vendor technology. We’re also interested in technically strong engineering leaders from relevant trading, pricing, risk or real-time data environments who have worked closely with front-office users.

The key requirement is technical strength: a software development background, strong coding and architecture skills, and the appetite to remain hands-on. A generalist infrastructure or delivery management background alone won’t be a fit.

Why this role

  • True ownership of a business-critical global platform
  • A senior leadership role with meaningful hands-on engineering involvement
  • Direct partnership with front-office trading and quant teams
  • Opportunity to shape long-term architecture, strategy and engineering standards

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Posted: October 11th, 2026