Global Lead – Electronic Trading, Platform as a Service (Executive Director)
Core
Architecting and operating a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for high-availability, low-latency electronic trading infrastructure, standardizing integration between trading paths and post-execution systems.
Role type
Executive Director, Platform Engineering (Electronic Trading)
Builds
Cloud-native PaaS for high-frequency trading, including Kubernetes clusters, Kafka messaging, and modern observability stacks.
Domain
Financial Services / Electronic Trading / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Kubernetes architecture, Kafka messaging systems, Cloud-native application design, Modern observability (OTEL, Grafana, Tempo), CI/CD tooling, Distributed system design, Python, Troubleshooting production systems
Preferred skills
Flink, Java, MongoDB, MemSql, Snowflake, GPFS, Electronic trading lifecycle knowledge
Technologies
Kubernetes, Kafka, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, OTEL, Grafana, Tempo, OIDC, mTLS
Responsibilities
Collaborate with application teams to define requirements and adopt cloud-native best practices; Review architecture for compliance and identify drift; Design end-to-end testing strategies for trading flows; Integrate Agentic AI and automation for app onboarding; Debug full-stack operational issues across cloud/on-prem environments; Drive capacity planning and scaling for infrastructure components.
Seniority
Executive Director, hands-on technical leadership
