Hiring a Technical Manager for a global investment bank to head up delivery and technical leadership for a key cross-asset single dealer platform — focused on FX with roadmap into Rates/algo. This is a senior, hands-off leadership role with ownership of architecture, delivery, and stakeholder management across business and IT. You’ll lead distributed engineering teams, shape technical evolution of the platform, and work closely with business stakeholders to deliver front-to-back solutions.

What You’ll Do:

Lead global technology teams (~60 people), including developers, BAs, testers, and tech leads

Drive platform evolution from FX into Rates and cross-asset trading

Provide technical direction, architecture oversight, and delivery leadership

Act as key liaison between IT and business stakeholders — ensuring alignment on delivery

Guide teams on best practices and support greenfield development projects

Manage direct reports and oversee contractor-heavy delivery teams

What We’re Looking For:

Proven track record in leading global, cross-functional tech teams in banking/trading environments

Strong background in architecture and platform delivery — no hands-on coding, but technically credible

Experience with front office trading systems, ideally single dealer or cross-asset platforms

Delivered complex greenfield projects into production and supported post go-live

Confident stakeholder manager with excellent business engagement skills

A self-starter — comfortable driving technical and functional delivery

Tech Environment:

Front-end: HTML5 / JavaScript

Backend: Java & .NET services

Global teams with a flat hierarchy and strong tech leads

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