Swaps Trading Application – Technical Lead (Senior Vice President)

Overview

In this role you lead the development and support of Jefferies’ Global Equity Swaps System, blending hands-on engineering with domain expertise in Synthetic Prime, Portfolio Swaps, and Total Return Swaps. You will partner with front-office traders, operations, and middle office in a fast-paced trading environment to deliver scalable, low-latency trading systems and robust lifecycle processing. You’ll drive modernization while maintaining core systems and collaborating across regions. This is a chance to shape critical equity swap infrastructure and impact trading workflows at scale.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement a scalable, low-latency equity swap trading and lifecycle system
• Lead technical design and re-platforming efforts using best-of-breed technologies
• Ensure robust trade processing and lifecycle events handling for swaps and hedge execution workflows
• Collaborate with stakeholders across regions to gather and interpret business requirements
• Manage full SDLC including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and production deployment
• Coordinate with global teams on integration points
• Maintain and evolve legacy systems while driving modernization initiatives

Key requirements

• Strong experience with Swaps Trading
• Strong experience with Swaps Lifecycle Management, Processing of Corporate Actions, Client Reporting, Regulatory reporting and Compliance frameworks
• 10+ years of experience in capital markets, preferably in Synthetic Prime Business
• 5+ years in a technical lead role
• 10+ years of hands-on programming experience in C++/Java/C#, preferably server-side
• Strong hands-on experience with low-latency systems, multi-threading, and real-time systems
• Strong experience in scalable, microservices architecture
• Experience with cloud platforms, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus

• Strong communication skills, verbal and written, to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a collaborative mindset
• Highly motivated self-starter with a “can-do” attitude
• C++/Java/C# server-side development
• low-latency system design
• multi-threading and real-time processing

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