CareerPlan

Head of Physical Lifecycle Engineering

London, England, GBFull-time2026-10-21 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead the greenfield redesign of the post-trade lifecycle (processing, validation, settlement, reconciliation) for Commodities and Global Markets, replacing manual processes with a digital-first, event-driven platform.

Role type

Senior Product Owner / Engineering Lead (Post-trade Lifecycle Transformation)

Builds

Scalable, deterministic, event-driven post-trade platform with AI-native workflows

Domain

Financial Services / Capital Markets / Post-trade Operations

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Product strategy, first-principles re-architecture, event-driven design, AI/LLM agent integration, cross-functional leadership, trade lifecycle domain knowledge

Preferred skills

Experience with deterministic controls, straight-through processing, capital markets operations

Technologies

Event-driven architectures, AI agents, Large Language Models (LLM), agentic systems

Responsibilities

Define target-state architecture and roadmap for post-trade lifecycle, lead first-principles re-architecture to eliminate manual touchpoints, embed AI for automated decision-making and exception management, partner with trading and operations to enable real-time processing

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC / Strategic Lead