VP, Head of Infrastructure - Sell Side, Capital Markets
Core
Lead the platforms, networks, and teams supporting principal and agency trading to ensure secure, resilient, low-latency infrastructure for sell-side capital markets.
Role type
VP, Head of Infrastructure (Sell Side Capital Markets)
Builds
Trading infrastructure across data centers, colocation facilities, networks, compute, storage, and cloud services.
Domain
Financial Services / High-Frequency Trading / Infrastructure
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
High-performance networking, low-latency system design, disaster recovery engineering, enterprise governance, team leadership, trading workflow knowledge, market data systems, capacity planning, incident management, modernization strategy.
Preferred skills
AI-enabled engineering practices, DevOps, cross-functional stakeholder alignment.
Technologies
FIX, market data feeds, exchange connectivity, colocation, cloud services, observability tools.
Responsibilities
Set infrastructure strategy and investment roadmap; deliver low-latency performance improvements; lead high-performance networking and connectivity; support principal and agency trading workflows; build resilience and disaster recovery; lead operations and incident response; establish governance and standards; partner across the organization; develop and coach engineering leaders; drive continuous improvement and modernization; represent infrastructure at the executive level.
Seniority
VP, Executive Leadership